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[losturmarbles]

Not true, doctors performing 85 procedures on a 75 year old woman because she has medicare and they get paid no matter what is just plain greed. Laugh all you want ignorance is all you have to share.

wtf are you talking about? are you saying it's up to YOU to decide how many procedures are acceptable for HER, not the patient/doctor? so it's up to YOU to decide what's "greedy" and what's not?

you proved my point btw. medicare = 3rd party.

[jon101]

No because medicare can't refuse procedures based on cost, and yes they should. Double edged answer.
But hey the way I see it if the doctors followed the patients wishes and let them die in peace that wouldn't be an issue. 60 minutes did a big piece about it.

[jon101]

BTW losturmarbles try and get a doctor to let you come once every 3 months for a visit that will really piss him off, he figures he should be able to gouge you for multiple visits as often as possible.
And ask him to call your meds into the pharmacy, oops thats a doctors visit.
The point is overpaid and underworked. Not even in the top 20 for quality medicine, and yet the highest cost in the world.

[losturmarbles]

Not even in the top 20 for quality medicine

i guess i'm not the only one sharing ignorance

[Sam Odom]

In light of the shenanigans going-on on the US Senate floor today , does anyone inside or outside Washington DC know WTF is going on ?

[jon101]

Yeah the insurance company bailout not going as planned.

[bettilimbroke999]

Health care in this country is a joke, richest country on earth and health care is run like a 3rd world country

If you've ever had a problem you are given a rider for insurance to not cover that which is naturally the most likely health problem you are to face in the future thus defeating the purpose of even having insurance, so basically once you've had a problem that forces you to get on the health insurance rape wagon like everyone else you are instantly uninsurable so basically perfect health is required to be eligible for health coverage, on top of that if you ever have a problem while you have health insurance your premiums go throw the roof, on top of that your premiums go up every year automatically just bc they like money, on top of that if you switch jobs your new jobs insurance is new so it doesn't cover the (now considered preexisting) problems you were covered for under your previous plan at the previous job, on top of that they shove a 10 foot dildo up your ass just bc they like to fuk with you and then tell you that your premium is doubled for stitching up your shithole, on top of that health insurance is run by the devil that makes his profit only by denying as much care as they legally can get away with and overcharging ppl (premiums) on already ridiculously overpriced services so you got families paying 1350 a month that basically breaks them to avoid getting a hospital bill which bankrupts them