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akuma587 on 22 October 2008
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TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:
steven787 said:
It's not about seeing you for a check up. It's like receiving cancer treatments (which cost tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars) but no one will treat you because it's not an emergency and when it becomes one, it's too late to treat it.

Yes.  Our healthcare system is too focused on cost rather than actual treatment.  In the best healthcare systems in the world, like France, you get treatment when you need it regardless of if you can pay for it.  Doctors are even rewarded if there patients do better on average than other doctors patients, whereas here doctors are discouraged from taking patients that can't pay.

And in actuality the average person does not need as much medical treatment in a country like France.  You know why?  Because their conditions and problems are treated BEFORE they become an emergency and when they are a lot easier to treat.

Its like the difference between paying $20 to put a lock on your door versus having to pay $2000 to replace the stuff someone stole out of your house.  Prevention in medicine makes a huge difference, but our current healthcare system discourages people from going to the doctor.

And not only that, if you ARE diagnosed with something, then your healthcare provider can drop you because they don't want to pay for your condition.  This gives people EVEN LESS incentive to go to the doctor for small problems that will eventually turn into big problems because they are worried their insurance company might drop them.

The healthcare system in America is awful in terms of its priorities, and insurance companies only make the system worse.

 

 

While I agree with this for the most part, I think there are better ways to deal with it then socialized medicine. Regulations for one.

I want my country to protect me, not take care of me.

You can thank the GOP for taking away many of the regulations that were there to protect people away, such as the ability of insurers to discriminate in who they will take as heavily as they can now.  You can also thank the GOP for deregulating insurance rates, which have significantly risen in every state after those rates were deregulated, even though the point of deregulating insurance was supposed to make it cheaper (at least, that is what the politicians told people).

 



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