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Message Subject What a nightmare... 900+% increase... Good lord, I am getting sick of this shit...
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Just 2 generations ago, doctors made HOUSE CALLS.

Think of that.

When health insurance first started, around 100 years ago, it was NOT to pay for medical expenses. Everybody could afford to pay hospital bills OUT OF POCKET. But they could not afford the income lost if they were out of work for several months. So, insurance paid INCOME REPLACEMENT, not health expenses.

Think of THAT.

As the federal government has become more and more involved in the health care industry, to the point where today MORE THAN HALF of all health care dollars goes through the feds, the expense has gone higher and higher. Just like taxes, or anything else the government touches.

We have separation of church and state.

We need separation of health care and state.
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Medicine has also become more high tech than it was 100 years ago. And that takes money. But not as much money as they are charging because of insurance. And with the population being so much larger and tests needing to be done, house calls are just not feasible anymore. Some doctors are doing 'housecalls' via computer but that is not the norm and you still have to pay for that. But it is better than having to trek into the nearest office when you are sick and others are as well. Things have to change it is just not easy.
 
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