Transparent medical costs could cut the current abuse out of the health care system.
How would having transparent health care costs make a difference? Easy – if you know the price of something you budget wisely. If you do not know the price, it is easy to spend more, because you do not make the connection between the doctor’s inexpensive visit co-pay and the real bill.
Budgeting wisely saves money and reduces abuse in the health care system. How? If you knew what it cost to see a doctor for a minor cold you would think twice about running to see him. A doctor trained for 10 years or more and whose specialty isn’t in general medicine could cost a tremendous amount to visit.
If you have more than one child, the costs of taking them to see a doctor for something you could take care of at home on your own will put a serious dent into your budget. Be smart and think twice about going to the doctor unless you really need to.
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Obama says all employers should contribute to health coverage for their employees or pay towards a public plan. It is an interesting concept, although many employers are actively preparing to reduce the costs of health coverage, not increase it. They just cannot afford to keep offering it at the rates they pay now.
The President suggests hospitals need to be graded on performance and streamline their recordkeeping for higher efficiency. Better recordkeeping is nice, but it does not address the prices doctors charge for services or what the hospital bills for patient care. We know these type of bills can be shockingly high.
In addition, Obama says a national health insurance exchange program would reform private markets. It sure would – it would drive up the prices insurance companies charge because they need to keep their bottom line healthy. Insurance companies are in business to make money, not shell it out.
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Obama says it is a priority to have affordable, accessible, high-quality health care. Well that is nice, but doesn’t everyone? And how can that be accomplished? Who would pay for it? And how long would those changes take?
The President suggests mandating that all children have health coverage. Ask yourself about the costs involved for those who do not have insurance now. And if you mandate children, do you mandate adults? How do you enforce this? Of course, we all know that we are supposed to have mandated health insurance by 2014, but the question is, aside from stiff fines how do you enforce it? How do you enforce a homeless person with no money, but panhandling, to get health insurance? Who pays for that? We the taxpayers do, that’s who.
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