Your opinion on Universal Health Care?

RickG · Dec 1, 2008

MeanGreen said: ↑

Unreal those prices .I would have never thought the pharmacies would have that much control.
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The problem is many people have their prescriptions covered by insurance and just pay the copay . They don't care about the real cost . Insurance companies don't care either . They just raise policy rates . But now you see how WalMart can have those $4 prescriptions .

MeanGreen · Dec 2, 2008

Well all i know is many people are working jobs they hate because of the health insurance offered by big corps. And from my personal experiance with the Medical system seems like a modern day SHAKE down to me . Has to be a better way to help make it more affordable for everyone . Im over the entire situation to be honest. We treat Animals better in the UNITED STATES .

25(2)+2 · Dec 2, 2008

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KeithT1967 said: ↑

No way to goverment health care.

I think the 1st step to fixing our health care system is to get the lawyers under control. Lawyers like John Edwards (the Dem NC Senator) make millions on malpractice suits. In John Edwards case he made several million on a SINGLE lawsuit claiming something that has since been proven absolutley false by scientific studies. John's money was paid by the insurance companies who were providing malpractice insurance to the doctors and hospital involved.

Insurance has to pay a BS claim, Malpractice Insurance goes up.

Malpractice Insurance goes up, Medical fee's go up.

Medical fee's go up, Health Insurance Companies rates go up.

And WE, the consumer, are the ones who are really paying John Friggen Edwards.

There is another item too.

Most countries with universal health care use price caps on medication. This means that most of the research and development cost for new medications are being paid for by the US and a few other countries consumers. I don't begrudge Canadians or anyone else their universal health care if thats what they want but I think they should be paying their fair share for meds and if they dont want to they shouldnt be getting them at all.
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There is a thing called formulary, a listing of drugs that can be used with efficacy, safety, and cost used to determine the list. Single payer tends to place much more emphasis on cost than the other two, that fact was pointed out to me by a friend in Canada who was in heart failure and given opiates for migraine. Doctors bury their mistakes.

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