You see, when anyone gets sick or injured--be it an elderly person, a poor person, a rich person, an immigrant, and that person goes to the hospital to get treated, they will be treated and then billed later.
But no one in this country cares about what that bill costs and very few people ever pay the massive, absurdly overpriced charges.
Doctors and hospitals, well aware of how fucked up the system is, charge the maximum they can and add on loads of extras because they know they will eventually be reimbursed--either by the government or insurance providers.
And there in lies the root of the mess: American health care consumers could care a less of the costs involved with treatment, and health care providers are incentivized to charge as much as they can.
The system--albeit completely, utterly insane and broken, is a form of 'universal' health care.
It's Twilight Zone universal health care though. America deserves better.
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I am on Iowa Care and have heard nothing good about it at all. The worst are treated first (cancer, car wrecks, life threatening diseases). I have advanced osteoarthritis as does a friend who has waited for TWO YEARS for the surgery she needs so badly but since her condition is not life threatening she waits and waits and waits. As I most likely will. I plan to make an appointment to be seen and will document everything as I go through the process. Should make for an interesting article.
Word to the warning: this is the health care Obama wants for all citizens. He and his family will have the best of course. The rest of us will be subject to a unique form of population control. Die waiting.
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