Health Care Simplified—Quality and Cost<\/p>\n
Best Health Care—Best Quality and Best Cost—involves two people.\u00a0 The doctor treats the patient with undivided attention, and the patient pays the doctor.\u00a0 Both are accountable directly to each other.<\/p>\n
Mediocre Health Care—Reduced Quality and Higher Cost—involves two people plus insurance.\u00a0 The doctor treats the patient, now with divided attention, because the insurance company pays the doctor, eventually, hopefully.\u00a0 The doctor (and the hospital) charge more for the same service because of increased uncertainty with the middle-man and the delays and stipulations by the insurance company.<\/p>\n
Worst Health Care—Worst Quality and Highest Cost—involves two people plus insurance plus government (not worthy the label “health care”).\u00a0 Free health care from the government is the most expensive lie ever pulled on Americans.\u00a0 It will cost us, dearly.\u00a0 And, worst of all, the strings attached will mean the government decides and dictates the quality of health care.\u00a0 Neither the patient nor the doctor will make health care decisions—life and death decisions—for you and me.\u00a0 The increased cost will pale in comparison to the reduced quality.\u00a0 End result—disaster, in quality and in cost.<\/p>\n
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Usually, the big question in health care is dealing with catastrophe.<\/p>\n
Fear drives the insurance business, especially in health care.\u00a0 What if I get the big one that I can’t pay for?\u00a0\u00a0 So I have to<\/span> buy insurance in case of catastrophe.<\/p>\n But that is not so.\u00a0 It is simply what we have become accustomed to expect.\u00a0 If insurance is the only way to pay for health care, then how did we survive without it previously?<\/p>\n In the past, health care catastrophes were covered by family, church, and community.\u00a0 It is noteworthy that even today when someone has a devastating tragedy, local folks put up signs in local stores to raise money to help the family (such response most alive and well in smaller communities).\u00a0 And not a single dollar is lost to overhead or greed or profit.<\/p>\n Think about this question:\u00a0 Would you rather donate voluntarily to a local need for local folks, or be forced to pay double in taxes for somebody you don’t even know, and see half of it wasted (stolen) (benefitting those not in need) in the process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Health Care Simplified—Quality and Cost Best Health Care—Best Quality and Best Cost—involves two people.\u00a0 The doctor treats the patient with undivided attention, and the patient pays the doctor.\u00a0 Both are accountable directly to each other. Mediocre Health Care—Reduced Quality and Higher Cost—involves two people plus insurance.\u00a0 The doctor treats the patient, now with divided attention, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-financial","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}