CaptainCourtesy

Currently, you are trolling. I understand that you do not like being challenged on your positions. If you do not want to answer my question, just say so and we will move on. But do not further troll this thread. Yes, consider that an "official" warning.

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Redress

You of course know that there is a difference between not doing lifesaving procedures, and not doing unnecessary procedures? I know you would never exaggerate nor use ridiculous hyperbole.

Oftencold

Please take a moment to consider the Federal Tax Code. It has spawned an industry that offers trained employees just to help the average citizen pay routine annual taxes, and army of depicted lawyers to help companies try to decipher what the law says that they owe in corporate taxes.

I stress again that all of this effort is used to correctly file routine paperwork.

I can only surmise that the clerical requirements under any of the proposed systems which would be vastly more complicated.

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Redress

I repeat, 4 years and I have not gotten all my fathers medical bills taken care of. I have 3 spiral notebooks on my desk to keep notes of every phonecall(one for each insurer). I am a college dropout, yet I can do my taxes no problem. Untangle insurance, not so much. Thank god for my fathers old union, who I can turn to every so often, and who does get things done for me on this.

Nothing quite as frustrating as calling one company on a bill, being told that another insurance company handles it, calling the other, being told the first handles it, asking them to call the first and explain this, and being told that they are not allowed to do that.

Triad

So lets see...

1. Trolling.
2. Further trolling.
3. Further trolling with insults and threats.
4. Further trolling with insults and threats and now an "official threat.(harassment)

I reported all of these I expect a mod to take action against him.
I do not expect to see this **** again.

CaptainCourtesy

This happens with regularity. As a provider, I see this all the time. I am still waiting to be paid for services from two years ago. I have sent the information 6 times, to 4 different buildings and to the direct office of someone I spoke to. No one has ever "received" the information. This is the game they play in the hope that the provider/subscriber will just give up, allowing the insurance company to not have to pay for services. Happens all the time. In my practice we are owed thousands and thousands via scams like this. This is a big reason why many practitioners that I know are dropping out of most, if not all insurance plans.

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celticlord

It is certainly one way to frame the question. Another way is "what is the most efficient/most equitable means of allocating healthcare resources?"

It is the elephant in the living room for every healthcare debate. There is no way to avoid the cold reality that healthcare must be purchased. The doctor must make a living; likewise the pharmacist, the hospital, and every other professional involved in healthcare. Regardless of the healthcare scheme, they must be paid.

Do people waste money on deathbed measures that ultimately do little to either prolong life or enhance quality of life? Quite possibly, even probably. Going gently into that good night is not our way, as a rule.

However, if it is their money, who is government, or anyone else, to say that they should not waste it thus? Bank accounts are just not that helpful to dead people, so why shouldn't people spend their last dime grasping for one more second of life if that is their desire?

Naturally, the rebuttal is that, because of insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid, the money spent is not the patient's money, but other people's money. What claim does any patient have on another person's money to sustain life to the absolute bitter end?

CaptainCourtesy

Tell you what. I will do something about it.

Moderator's Warning:

I've already warned you once. Either post on topic, or cease this behavior.

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celticlord

The question is not how much bureaucracy government will put on medical coverage, but how much more bureaucracy will be added.

That is the part of the Administration's thesis I find laughable: that a "public option" (government program) would have lower administrative costs. Government programs, if anything, are top heavy in administrative costs as arule; why would healthcare be any different.

Triad

Stop trolling me.... Stop insulting me... Stop trying to start an argument..Stop harassing me.

You're now entering abusive.

You started this crap..you continued this crap after it became clear I was not going to respond to you. I warned you from the start and reported you multiple times. I asked you to stop from the beginning.

..and what do you do..
...threaten me with whatever because of your actions.