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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank ACA.[/quote]

This isn’t an ACA thing. It’s a privat insurance thing.

I would MUCH rather have a government bureaucracy making decisions about my health coverage and claims than a private enterprise trying to meet quarterly earnings targets.[/quote]

Oh my God.  You have obviously never worked with the government.

My mom was a VA nurse for 38 years.  You do NOT WANT THE GOVERNMENT MANAGING YOUR CARE.  So many unnecessary deaths due to poor docs.  There was one surgeon they called "Dr. Death" because he nicked organs like weekly, leading to people dying of sepsis unnecessarily.  Did the VA stop him from operating?  Nope.  He continued on for 15 more years doing this until he retired.[/quote]

All of us pay for Medicare starting the day we work, and throughout our working years PLUS, on top of that we pay premiums, deductables and co-pays and it doesn't cover everything so you need a supplement.  
So much misinformation. First, ACA isn’t govt run healthcare, it’s through private companies. Second, I’m sure the VA has problems but [b]Medicare is govt run healthcare[/b] and seniors are overwhelmingly happy with original Medicare. There’s no reason that model couldn’t work for more people. [b]Third, you have to talk about the impact private equity has had on practices.[/b] [/quote]

Can we actually talk about this? It should be perfectly transparent when a practice is owned by PE. Because I would immediately walk.

There is no symbiosis to those sharks buying up practices (who is selling to them) and patient care. [/quote]

No, Medicare is government PAID health care, which is totally different than government run health care.  And seniors may be happy with their original Medicare, but that's because there are basically no limits on their expenditures AND the rest of us subsidize the low rates paid by the feds to hospitals and physicians.  That is not a sustainable model for the entire system.  [/quote][/quote]

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