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Good morning, Netizens…
In this morning’s David Horsey cartoon, we see a picture of the deplorable subcultures of the United States known as the drug companies and the health care insurers operating on the poor patient, the US Health Care System.
Like most people of my age, I have friends that are dying of various ailments, for that seems to be part of aging. Most are flat-broke, and have limited or no insurance, but they still require pills and other medicaments to keep them alive, which the drug companies are eager and willing to provide, sometimes on a discount basis.
The greatest question in American health care is why can’t sick people afford insurance? When you are young, hale and healthy, the insurance companies are delighted to take your money and there are great deals to be had by one and all, providing you do not have any pre-existing conditions that may come back to haunt you later on. However, when you are sick, in need of profound medical care, the price(s) for insurance escalate dramatically, and the insurance companies all agree, the health care system is healthy.
Both the insurance and drug companies spend billions of dollars annually, extolling the virtues of their respective systems, but people cannot afford insurance. People cannot afford health care.
David Horsey is right. The health care system, as it exists today, is totally bogus.
Dave
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lewis8457 on March 13 at 11:37 a.m.
I have the only doctor in this Sate that does not believe in pain therapy but he pushes every other kind of pill. If i took all the stuff he wants me to take i would be on a 5-6 pill per day habit. I told him once I don’t want a $1200 a month drug habit. One of the drugs I should take goes up in price every month and I have found NO insurance company prescription program that will cover it, and i have looked endlessly.
Eat right, take a good multi-vitamin (Solary Spectro), and walk a couple miles a day. I was sick for many years and found to rely on the Spectro formula it really works with out it I am walking dead
cantyoureadthesigns on March 13 at 12:50 p.m.
“New Study Shows Health Care Costs Put U.S. Workers at Significant Disadvantage Compared with Global Competitors
Here is the problem with our health care system:
Doctors and hospitals get paid to do as much as they can - not what is needed, but as much as they can. Supply creates demand. And it is estimated that over 50% of health care costs stems from supply, not demand. So, the value of our health care system is deflated because, for the money we pay docs to do as much as they can, we get very little health benefits in return.
We’re spending $2.5 trillion per year on chasing chronic disease with drugs and procedures that help a third of people, don’t do anything for a third, and harm the last third. And all of this so that we can prolong the average adult life by 6 years over the past 100 years.”
http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/