http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/health-just-isnt-as-important-as.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/health-just-isnt-as-important-as.html/comment-page-1#comment-81650 Anonymous Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/health-just-isnt-as-important-as-entertainment-or-other-things-that-cost-money.html#comment-81650 It'd be great to someday see health insurance act more like car insurance: we pay for the day to day and expect to pay for routine prescriptions, but when it comes to unexpected things like major diagnostic tests, then we should be covered. Yet, as insurers try to make their packages look more attractive, the deductibles and co-pays have become so high that for most of us relatively healthy people, we pay the insurance company large annual sums AND nearly all the costs every year. I applaud those doctors who shun insurance, charge a flat fee, and have negotiated with labs and others for lower rates, and can therefore practice financially realistic medicine. It’d be great to someday see health insurance act more like car insurance: we pay for the day to day and expect to pay for routine prescriptions, but when it comes to unexpected things like major diagnostic tests, then we should be covered. Yet, as insurers try to make their packages look more attractive, the deductibles and co-pays have become so high that for most of us relatively healthy people, we pay the insurance company large annual sums AND nearly all the costs every year. I applaud those doctors who shun insurance, charge a flat fee, and have negotiated with labs and others for lower rates, and can therefore practice financially realistic medicine.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/health-just-isnt-as-important-as.html/comment-page-1#comment-81646 Anonymous Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/health-just-isnt-as-important-as-entertainment-or-other-things-that-cost-money.html#comment-81646 People no longer respect or trust authority of any kind, except their peers, which is a condition of adolescence, and more and more people seem to see no reason to mature beyond adolescence where 'adults' are perpetually responsible, not them, for just about everything. Politicians and lawyers, etc, pander to them (adolescents are easily manipulated) because there are votes to be had, money to be made. People no longer respect or trust authority of any kind, except their peers, which is a condition of adolescence, and more and more people seem to see no reason to mature beyond adolescence where ‘adults’ are perpetually responsible, not them, for just about everything. Politicians and lawyers, etc, pander to them (adolescents are easily manipulated) because there are votes to be had, money to be made.

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