CallaFirestormBW
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ORIGINAL: Brain Budget umpire: Health care bills would raise costs http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul I'm sorry, but the only way to end the rising cost of health-care is to get it out of the realm of 'for profit' industry. As long as companies are involved in health care to make a profit, health care costs will continue to rise, because profits must rise. If we want reasonable health care costs, then there can be no benefit aside from meeting ones operational costs (which could be significantly reduced were we to move to a single-payor plan) and that of knowing that one's work is healing individuals. I can't be clear enough about this -- as long as insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, imaging centers, cancer treatment centers, hospices, nursing facilities, etc., are in business to make a profit off of people's poor health, there will -always- be health disparity, always be excessive cost, always be excessive paperwork, always be denial of services and always... always... the costs will be rising to keep the company's profits as high as they can possibly be, so that the stockholders, rather than the patients and practitioners, determine appropriate medical care and the costs thereof. Profit has NO BUSINESS in the health care business. Bottom line. DC
< Message edited by CallaFirestormBW -- 7/17/2009 10:46:20 AM >
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