Re: RE : Re: Buy healthcare insurance or pay government fine! OT

[Guest guest]

One third of every healthcare dollar goes to health insurance

companies, I've heard.

Not to providers.

[Guest guest]

Sure, valid point - all systems have costs of administration.

HOWEVER...given that there are literally THOUSANDS of kinds of insurance

coverage, this also adds costs to the doctors' end of keeping up with all the

particular sets of rules and actually getting paid. A so-called 'single payer'

system would drive up efficiency and allow a greater percentage of funds to go

toward health care itself rather than fighting about whether someone's policy

allows them access to that care.

Here in Texas, insurance companies find it worth their time to anonymously

file complaints with the state against doctors that they'd prefer not to pay,

hoping it will get the doctors licenses removed... which is how this subject

ties directly into the topics of this board as several of the best mold doctors

in the country have been under assault through these mechanisms.

~Haley

Sharon <shha2002@...> wrote:

When discussing healthcare administrative costs refer to all costs

that

are administrative in nature. This includes the provider, the insurance

companies and any other costs that exist to administer healthcare in

this country. There are people who believe that if you eliminate these

costs of running the broken healthcare system you would take out costs

that don't add value and more money could be spent on the care of

patients or the cost would simply go away.

Sharon Hanson

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

>

> One third of every healthcare dollar goes to health insurance

> companies, I've heard.

> Not to providers.

>