Quote (Skinned @ Oct 4 2019 04:34pm)
You don't believe in $8 asprine at hospitals?
Utilization reviewer right here :) I get a staggering amount of medical bills written off as charity though and I'll sign any document getting any person any services they need short of long-term disability.
People don't interact with me unless they are in very bad shape though. Normal people get RNs to run their care episode. I only get the hardest cases.
That would be hilarious to try to enforce. They would have to hire 50000 more government employees in addition to all of the ones up our ass already.
Would make aspirins more lol.
The for profit insurance providers are going to be the ones running the medicare for all programs. You have anthem medicare Humana medicare aetna medicare just like you do now. All of these manage to medicare's are practically inferior to original government medicare, the red white and blue card. Fed government doesn't make millionaires like Aetna, Humana, and anthem, etc, out of extra administration costs.
Medicare for all scares me.
I would rather have plans like the cheapest available on healthcare.gov site with just the basics available to everybody for minimal cost, means tested and given to the poorest, as a basic availability, with actual specialist treatment being parts of plans you have to pay for.
You get into a wreck and need to go to hospital you get fixed...drink until your brain gets pickled while never working? On your own. Right now a person in the second category would end up being in a nursing home on Medicaid being Frankenstein'd alive for as long as possible...vent...dialysis...etc, being kept alive for as long as technology allows, at the cost of 300-400 dollars a day to the federal govt supported via taxation. People in this category would die earlier, in their homes, if not kept artificially alive, which is what I plan to do instead of malingering on this planet longer than I should. But I couldn't do what the derelict would be able to do because since I don't qualify for Medicaid I don't have the option of going into long term care unless I can afford the 300-400 a day. You can't give your stuff away because people like me will get into all of your business and do forensic accounting for up to 7 years back to make sure you are sneaking any money to your kids. If someone manages your money they need receipts and if they count your food it better be in a separate fridge if you live together.
Then again I meet people all the time and me and the doc just wonder how the fuck they're still alive. Seniors living with no running water electricity covered in piss and shit and blood sugars in the several hundreds eating rotten food....on the ground what can you do with that except send em to the expensive nursing home?
And the boomers are coming? And they're becoming demented, and they're armed to the teeth. They all drive and they are all packing heat lol.
I could get behind that.
My personal view is children/disabled/pregnant covered under medicaid. Things like insulin for type 1 being means tested.