So you really think Government Health Insurance will keep down costs?

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Originally Posted by WickedLou9

Ans as far as access to care, those countries have longer life expectancies and lower rates of infant mortality than we do.

Can you in anyway correlate that to a lack of universal access to health care? Or does it have more to do with our fast food and fast living way of life? You are trying to claim a lack of universal health insurance makes people live shorter lives and kills more infants than the way the majority of Americans live compared to other contries? I think the argument is very weak. You are going to need some very solid data to convince me otherwise.

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Originally Posted by A_C_E

Basically, a TON of doctors are simply robbing the government and HMOs blind. There are so many complicated processes for obtaining Medicare and Medicaid procedures that most of the time the states/Feds administering these programs don't notice any irregularities. Billing for procedures not performed, overbilling for services, out-patient services billed as inpatient, medically-unnecessary cosmetic procedures billed to HMOs and the government, and surgery performed when not necessary are ALL frequent practices in the health care industry.

I don't doubt it at all and I think it will get much worse if we fall under a government administered health insurance system. Then patient does not care and to the government it is just paperwork. If it costs more money we just throw more money at it.