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This is why health insurance is unaffordable
Aggie
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 12:28 PMre: This is why health insurance is unaffordable
HeartHawk
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 04:23 PMVery true in that mandates are generally expensive and I am philosophically against them. However, in this case you have the AHA which is purposely trying to suppress heart scanning technology in essence trying to manipulate the system with insurance companies filling the role of willing stooges and basing their coverage on the AHA's subversive position.
Why would the AHA do this? The answer is simple - money. They represent the old guard that sees heart disease as a money making venture. The squeeze is put on by doctors who wantonly let people get so sick they need a stent or bypass and drug companies who have similar reasons for creating a a nation of sick people to treat.
Think I'm kidding. It makes my stomach turn to overhear interventional cardiologists scheme over how they can find ways to do more "procedures." That is REALLY sick. Two wrongs do not make a right but all things considered I do not lose too much sleep over this artificial pressure. It will open some eyes - then I'll be right there to help repeal it!
Regards,
HeartHawk
P.S. Healthcare is unaffordable for exactly the opposite reason - lack of preventive practices. We are a nation of largely unhealthy people who would rather pop a pill or visit the emergency room than eat right or take a walk. The docs and drug companies have done a wonderful job of inventing and selling cures in record numbers to this unwitting population. Healthcare is unaffordable because it is abundant, demanded, and being paid for by a third party. Just think about how expensive cars would be if you thought somebody else was paying for it and you did no maintenance! Costs will not go down until we all become savvy health consumers and more cost conscience.
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Dr. William Davis
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 01:07 PMWell said!
The Texas decision will hopefully be just the first step. We should all agitate to obtain coverage for heart scans in every state. It would raise awareness of heart disease enormously and improve preventive programs to keep people healthy and free of heart attack.
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Every time a politician places another mandate on insurance companies, it increases the cost of health insurance and makes it unaffordable for some. Unless we stop this nonsense and bring market principles at work in health insurance and health care, costs will continue to spiral out of control and people will mistakenly clamor for government health care. If we do get nationalized health care, everyone will have a spiffy little government insurance card, but nobody will be able to get treatment. Government health care always leads to decreases in quality and rationing.
Right now, everybody and their brother wants his particular illness or treatment covered by insurance and uses the power of government to force insurance companies to pay for it. From chiropractors to psychologists to parents of autistic children and on and on and on, the demands never cease. Nothing is free. The insurance companies pass on the costs of all these new demands to the consumer, and pretty soon, people will forego insurance because it is simply too expensive. Whenever government intervenes between the supplier and the consumer, the result is always a disaster.