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What Happened to Doctors is...

Obamacare.

Great narrative, but a horrible mess in the real world we live in.[/quote]

Our system before Obamacare was also terrible. It was fine for people employed and with health insurance, but terrible for anyone else. They could have moved towards a true single payer system, but Republicans backed by lobbyists wouldn’t allow it.[/quote]

I used to hate the idea of single payer because the government never does anything better than private industry.  But the current insurance setup in this country is a disaster.  I personally have good insurance and haven't been denied treatment or anything.  But I never know how much something is going to cost me.  The idea that a doctor sending a sample to the wrong lab or an ER doctor bringing in a specialist who works for a non-in-network contractor could lead to a huge bill is appalling.  The idea that I have to predict my out-of-pocket costs for next year in order to put the right amount into an FSA is ludicrous.  My dental insurance keeps denying claims because the office hasn't already put the bill through the main health insurance (the main health insurance won't pay-- the dental just wants to see it has been done).  It took me some time to realize this was happening because I seem to receive about 20 meaningless insurance explanations of benefits a month-- most of them completely pointless-- and so missed the ones where they were denying something we were entitled to.

I mean, the system is so bad that it's unbelievable.  If this is private insurance, then sign me up for single payer![/quote]

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