A lot of it is also that we all want to see a real Dr every year (sometimes several times) for common colds (something they can’t do anything about).

I think we get very little for our money since if you have a more serious problem they don’t typically catch them (IMO). They didn’t mine and I’m told by other doctors that my experience is the norm (oh they never get that; you end up in the ER and they do… of course ending up the ER means it progressed a lot….).

DID I READ THAT RIGHT? Right now, it’s over $600 a month in the buggered state of New York: that’s an INDIVIDUAL policy. Combines the HMO restrictions with (as of last year) only 80% payout, not the 100% of yore.

God, how I LOATHE, EXECRATE, and ABOMINATE the PINKOS. Damn them all.

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Because it was a form of compensation and not true insurance, health coverage became ever more expansive and expensive. Employees were shielded from the true cost of what they were consuming and accordingly failed to economize. If food were provided as a fringe benefit of employment, we’d dine on Chateaubriand every night. States compounded the problem in response to lobbying from particular providers, passing laws that required all insurance policies to cover expensive services, such as in vitro fertilization, pregnancy services, weight loss surgery and alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs. Over the past 30 years, 1800 mandates have been adopted, driving up the cost of insurance. This was bad enough for those with employer-provided insurance, but it hit those purchasing insurance individually particularly hard.

The high cost of insurance drove many who were not covered by employers to rely on hospital emergency rooms when they got sick. The federal government ratified this by mandating that hospitals treat all comers. Hospitals in turn charged more to their paying customers (i.e. insurance companies and the government through Medicare and Medicaid) to cover the costs of treating the uninsured. Rube Goldberg would be proud.

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Here’s the link: (by Mona Charen)

http://washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-should-prepare-for-the-collapse-of-obamacare/article/2525107

That was what was in ‘it’ that they didn’t want the proletariat to discover before it came crashing down upon their uninformed heads. The elitists hold us in utter contempt, I mirror back utter contempt to 10E12 upon them. They are vermin. I look forward to no daily bag limit.

Its the means to arrive at a single payer, statist healthcare system run by femi-nazi lesbians deciding who goes to the death camps. Isn’t that obvious? (I’m practicing at channeling artfldgr in less than 60,000 words.)