Now you’re just like Canada and Britain. You have to go to the news and through political channels in order to get the health-care you voluntarily gave up.
AccessHealth CT CEO Kevin Counihan said his intervention appears to be the reason the problem was solved. “We’ve interceded, and we’ve resolved [K.C.’s] issue with Anthem, and she’s all set now,” Counihan said. “I almost feel squirrely saying that because this is not about self-aggrandizement, but clearly, I think we put a little juice under Anthem’s toes.”
Still waiting for some poor bastard that has lost his spouse, or child, because of Affordable HC,
to just walk up and Bitch Slap Obama..
Yup. Birch slap him in the balls, with a steel – toed boot.
“….in order to get the health-care you voluntarily gave up.”
“voluntarily” is a pretty loose word.
American health care has been a scam since 1930s. Maybe Obuma will put it out of its misery.
Just like Canada? Canadas system looks like a steak dinner compared to the whores breakfast on offer down south.
BL@KBIRD, they both suck. The US system much more so now. When you remove the payment from the hands of the customer, you’ve changed customers. In other words, the true customers (some would call them patients) of doctors in Canada and the US are now the gov’t and regional health boards.
I expect the US will have as much success with that as Canada and Britain do.
I expect the U.S. health care system will become a Health Care System like Canada’s and Britain’s. The difference is when you have a Health Care System, health care doesn’t really matter so much, it’s just an excuse to have a System.
The cost effectiveness of the Canadian system keeps improving.
People who die waiting to see the specialist, reduce the costs to the system.
3 weeks to see your family physician, 18 months for each specialist.
Nonstandard medications denied…
A high efficiency process indeed.
I wonder what our politicians and kleptocrats will do now?
Do they still have easy access to private hospitals in the USA, or will they now have urgent business in Mexico, India…?
interesting the number of comments with the article blaming the insurance company instead of the Obamacare debacle. It’s easy to tell who voted for whom!
So now we have a huge inefficient government bureaucracy intertwined with the insurance bureaucracy. Great idea, that’ll make things better.
A decision about anything controlled by the state automatically becomes a political decision, and removes the individual’s ability to choose outcomes and provides a whole new industry for inter-locuters AKA parasites.
A couple of years ago I had to go to the OH Department of Insurance because our health insurance company had not paid us money they owed us within the time period they themselves specified we should get paid. After talking to managers over and over and getting no results, I felt my only recourse was to go to someone the insurance company might actually care about angering, the state government.
Payment was in the hands of patients before FDR. The whole employer provided health insurance only came about as a form of alternate compensation to lure skilled employees in a time when strict price and wage controls were in effect. Even at that, for years insurance truly was insurance, i.e. risk sharing for the expense of major health problems. It didn’t become some complicated system with byzantine rules until decades later — like any other symbiotic relationship between big business and government bureaucrats.
It’s a fundamental law of economics that when the relationship between buyer and seller is severed by an intermediate party, both buyer and seller lose their respective incentives for keeping costs low. It was bad enough when that intermediary was a private insurance company, but that will pale in comparison to the disaster that the US Federal government is about to make of things.
This is why we mock you, pill. The difference between single payer government burocracy and the “blood sucking tentacles of Big Insurance” , to the end user, is that you can sue Big Insurance. You can’t successfully sue OHIP. It never happens.
The entire style of medical practice is different between the USA and Canada. Here doctors have to make diagnoses with a minimum of tests, because of equipment scarcity. The whole push is to use the least number of tests, because of waiting lists.
In the USA the push is to do EVERYTHING, because Ghod help you if you didn’t order a test and the patient has a bad outcome.
Furthermore, the type of service you get in Canada depends a great deal on who you know and how you work the system. If you know people and are smart about using their influence, you will get your MRI in a week instead of three months. In the USA you get your MRI the same day no matter who you are, because there’s a large number of MRI labs available.
Being a troll, you will reject these inconvenient truths because they offer no support for your trolling. That won’t stop them being true. You might want to think about that a little bit, maybe talk about among your little friends. Do you really want the fat scuzzy dork at the Ministry of Transport desk deciding if you get an X-ray, or would you rather pay cash at the lab the same way you do at the vet?
And who compiles the health outcome reports?
Does patient confidentiality exist in Canada?
pill said: “…it would be reflected in health outcomes, which it assuredly is not.”
Uh huh. And you know this… how? Way to react to type, incidentally.
Go look up comparative life expectancy for hip replacement in Canada and the USA, then get back to us with your results. Maybe compare numbers in rural Minnesota with rural Alberta. You’ll find that long waiting lists do not correlate positively with improved outcomes. If you actually do a little reading you’ll find its a mater of some considerable concern to the provincial medical associations. Shortage of imaging resources and OR time is a very big deal.
Or don’t. Its all the same to me.
Oh and by the way, pay attention to what John Robertson said while you’re at it. If your physician uses electronic medical records, your doctor/patient confidentiality is zero. Any clerk in the bureaucracy can pull up your entire medical history for any reason, or just for the hell of it.
Gee pill, doesn’t that sound like fun?