Author: harry p.
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It’s not legal under USC 15, re the Sherman, Clayton, and Robinson-Patman antitrust laws. That said, the medical system has been given unofficial legal protection from this for payoffs. This needs to end should we actually want a functioning and cost-efficient system. I don’t yet see enough resistance, though.
I know, i read enough denninger to know that, it was a rhetorical question but just like the banksters no one of consequence gets prosecuted.
Ultimately the goal is to crash the system and then single payer will be framed as the only “solution”.
Don’t have kids! 🙂
I tell every young person I know that getting married and having kids will be the most enslaved you will ever be. Although I am aware that it may get worse.
Seems to be no problem with requiring all ingredients and calories to be listed for the food we buy, maybe the same idea should be applied to hospitals?
Telling people not to have children is really stupid .Think about it.A loving family maybe the only real insurance you have as time goes on. Besides it really just shows your own selfishness, Indentured servitude. Meathead.
I would prefer you advise them to look into alternatives, like, say hiring a midwife instead of going to the hospital. My sister and I were both born that way, as were most on my father’s side of the family. We all lived through it just fine. The cost would be given to you up-front and would tend to be around to the lower end hospital prices. Sure, you may not be able to count on insurance to cover it, but you do have 9 months to prepare and do you really need insurance to cover it if the bill isn’t astronomical?
But then again, I never understood why everyone let themselves come to rely on the medical profession so much for so many things–let alone allowing health insurance to break from it’s catastrophic emergency coverage roots. Why can’t we as a whole just take some personal responsibility for our own lives and well-being and use proper nutrition and natural means that have been around for eons to care for the normal problems and situations that arise throughout life? Is that really that much to ask of people?
bb, did you just suggest having children as a means of “insurance?” Even if your kids WANT to take care of you when you’re old – and they might not – they have to be ABLE to take care of you. They would need decent-paying jobs, for example, and for now and for the forseeable future there are already too many people relative to the number of available jobs – let alone GOOD jobs.
I think IS might have just been been making a smart ass comment.
Try to get a price commitment from a hospital for ANY service. It won’t happen! Your ignorance is their bliss. They make used car salesmen and lawyers appear moral and ethical. Get one of the latter and figure a way to screw them any way you can.
This is exactly why I propose that all medical services need to be non-profit or regulated profit like utilities
This is the curse of insurance. Insurance started in the work place because it was cheaper for companies (corporations) to give insurance in lieu of pay raises. Insurance was cheap, but as time went on it became more and more expensive for companies because people overused it . People went to their doctors with hiccups, sniffles, a pimple on their nose, etc. and premiums climbed That wasn’t the case before insurance where people had to pay for their medical visits. Medical care was rationed by the market place. But…Things that are free always get abused and over used.
It became so expensive for companies that they went to their bought and paid for congressmen and got the government to take over the healthcare. The result was the Un-Affordable Care Act.
Companies want to get out of any obligation that cost them money especially when the benefits to the companies are no longer viable for their bottom line.
H1b is a perfect example of companies gaming the system at the expense of their former employees who trained their Indian replacements.
Who do you think wrote that bill? The corporations of course.
It is the corporations that are running the country. The Coup was successful. It happened without a whimper not even a naysay from your elected leaders.
What we need is posted prices for hospitals just like car mechanics have to give you an estimate before you engage their services. Some hospitals do post their prices, so their are no surprises.
I can’t tell you what the cost will be to fix your furnace. We will decide on a price after we fix it.
“Don’t have kids!”
You don’t have to worry. Having babies requires normal sex between a man and a woman.