Thread: Health Insurance in the USA

Such a sad story. To have to pay for your own health and insurance provision is one thing... to have to battle private businesses with their full body of resources dedicated to finding that loophole/error/clause on which to cancel (read: cheat you out of) your treatment despite paying your premiums for years... well, that's why IMO health provision should never be aligned with profit motive.

Originally Posted by majurey

that's why IMO health provision should never be aligned with profit motive.

Why would anyone get into the provision of health care if there was no profit?

Matt

Originally Posted by mhailey

Why would anyone get into the provision of health care if there was no profit?

uhm ... health? Profit is not the only benefit.

I disagree with taxing people to pay for other peoples health problems, that just encourages people to not care for themselves and just use unhealthy food and addictive stuff because the govt will fix you.
And medicare in the USA is the same.
People should be more concered with being able to afford healthcare and not needing it because they look after their health.

Most people in materialistic society spend most of their money on junk, sad to see this lady was sick, but shes probably like the rest of society spending her money on junk, junk that probably made her sick.

Originally Posted by xman

uhm ... health? Profit is not the only benefit.

from each according to their abilities, to each acording to their needs. Right? We don't need money. You work only for the joy of the service you provide, and you don't get paid, right?

Originally Posted by mhailey

from each according to their abilities, to each acording to their needs. Right? We don't need money. You work only for the joy of the service you provide, and you don't get paid, right?

Thats only a good idea when its your choice but eventually everyone has to go for that "eeevviiil" profit to support themselves and their endeavors.

"sad to see this lady was sick, but shes probably like the rest of society spending her money on junk, junk that probably made her sick."

If you listen closely to what the lady said--she DID purchase health insurance (Blue Cross). Her treatment was denied because of a prior "acne" diagnosis. Also, to baselessly assert her cancer was caused by her spending money on "junk" is a bit reprehensible, IMO.

"Also, to baselessly assert her cancer was caused by her spending money on "junk" is a bit reprehensible, IMO. "

I never said her cancer was caused by that, just probably was caused by it.
Most cancer is caused by voluntary consumptiuon of toxic materials, the rest which is probably less is caused by involuntary consumption of toxic materials like exhaust fumes.
Obviously all cancers are going to be a mix of both to some degree but its mainly people putting stuff into their own bodies for many years that causes cancer.

The reason her treatment was so expensive was becuase she chose the chemotherapy option. Chemotherapy is like offering to fix someones broken leg with a sledgehammer.
The story is terrible about how the insurance company treated her claim, although the method of treatment and story around how people aquire cancer was what I was commenting on.

Originally Posted by majurey

well, that's why IMO health provision should never be aligned with profit motive.

I agree with this, but you could not just implement it in the healthcare industry it would have to be voluntarily implemented throughout society by all people for this to function correctly. Provision of everything should not be aligned with profit motive.
Like everyone should receive the best education. And that doesnt just mean whats tought in schools(which is mostly indoctrination), you would need to provide access to the knowledge that rich people of the world know because they have access to better facilities and methods of communication.

This provison over profit idea is correct, but it would daisy chain right through every service until you would need all services to be "provison over profit". And for that to work everyone would have to quit any use of energy that is wasteful, because that would be the optimum system, and for an optimum system to function you cannot have waste.
And if everyone was eating super healthy which you would require for this system to function then there would be far less need for healthcare through hospitals and curative medicine, because most things would be prevented...