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Who said the 3/4 car doesn't run?
Fenders, hoods, and doors only matter to to people with low self esteem.
Electronic cigarette.
Oh boy, is it inappropriate and incorrect analogy time already?
Who said the 3/4 car doesn't run?
Fenders, hoods, and doors only matter to to people with low self esteem.
Electronic cigarette.
It's not even that, but Medicare is going to be used for the daily/monthly medications and routine scheduled assessments/ongoing care. Separate backup insurance will be exactly that, for other treatments which aren't covered or have a better deal. No two insurances cover everything the same way, so whatever his point was supposed to be got lost in the failed and muddled attempt at an analogy.
A car works fine until you need to get to the other side of a lake.
His analogy was fine. He was essentially saying that it is all fine and good to pay less for something, but in the case of insurance or public insurance, the cheaper alternative may not pay for bigger more important things later.
And this is a legitimately concern with any kind of insurance. Why is the DRG system telling your grandmother what kind of care she can get? We literally have people not getting care they need because of equation in a computer. What good does it do you to save money on last weeks visit if they refuse to pay for this thing you need today?
Who, other than a Medicare recipient, carries two health insurance policies? This isn't some general point that is applicable to any health insurance. It is a specific weakness of Medicare.Originally Posted by MechDeus
My complaint was that it presented an inaccurate picture of how public options are set. It used words like negotiate and gave scenarios where care givers and public insurers get together to determine prices as is supposedly the case with Germany and Japan.
I felt that this was inaccurate because there is very little if any negotiation between care givers and public insures in the US on the DRG. Mech feels otherwise under the assumption that government officials probably negotiate with each other before adjusting the DRG
Hey guys. Why do the meds that keep me from dying cost $2000 a month? Why are meds in general so expensive? If I wasn't married I'd have no insurance, because I can't work. What then? Die?
Your stereotypical crazy homeless guy could probably use some psychiatric care. How does he get it?
He joins TNL and we all tell him to man up or steal some klonopin.
The average drug developed by a major pharmaceutical company costs at least $4 billion, and it can be as much as $11 billion.
That's why.
The cynical side of me wonders how much of that money is spent on figuring out how not to cure shit, just maintain it.
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