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akuma587 on 23 October 2008
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Jackson50 said:
akuma587 said:

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).

Some people do not grasp that healthcare does not work like most markets. Honestly, have you ever heard of anyone choosing a doctor because the doctor was having a discount or had the best prices? No, it is an entirely different beast that requires a different solution.

 

Actually, these days I do hear about a lot of people going to cheaper clinics and such to save money or because their insurance (or lack thereof, unless you have a load of cash in your hand they will tell you to walk out the door) doesn't allow them to go to any good doctors.

And a lot of insurance companies, HMO's for instance, tell you WHICH doctors you can see and which you can't.  And doctors will discriminate to based on what kind of insurance you have.  Its like having all the costs of socialized medicine (unnecessary barriers, uneven treatment) without any of the benefits!  Its absurd!



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