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    Quote Originally Posted by Joy View Post
    I'm not sure who made those charts but our doctors and all the ones I know and have worked for only get the fees the insurance/Medicare/Medicaid pay and the balance is adjusted off. The pt pays their co-pay, their deductible, and the 20% their insurance doesn't pay. Medicare and most insurance policies are 80/20 plans. But I'm not here to argue fees. I do have quite a bit of knowledge about fees and costs in healthcare because I have 40 years of experience in it. Our office does have a fee schedule for self-pay patients and that is much lower than insurance patients because we don't have to file a claim and go thru the whole process of haggling with insurance for payment.
    I just don't understand why everyone wants healthcare to be paid for or controlled by the government. I feel like very soon we will be paying our whole paychecks in taxes. If the government provides insurance then soon they will provide housing, food, and other necessities.
    Well, you'll never get to the bottom of it by conflating the issues. Health care is a service delivered by health care professionals. Insurance is a financial product. Pull the two issues apart and things might start making sense.

    Most people aren't paying for "health care", they are paying for a financial product (insurance).

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    The short answer, in my view, is that civilized societies take care of the weak among them; they don't just let them die on the side of the road. We're a wealthy nation and we can afford to provide health care to our seniors, working class families, and poor; therefore, we should!!

    Just my opinion, and I respect the fact you may differ in your view of things.
    We always have taken care of the weak and infirm, never needed gubmint to do that.

    Go back fifty/sixty years and you'll find that there were plenty of charity hospitals, etc. Government pretty much torpedoed all that.

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