So much for Cuban healthcare

[dogtowner]

I was wondering then, if one requires an authorisation from the Insurer then how can you go through needless surgery - do the insurers actually authorise i.e check the efficacy of the proceedure which you or the hospital require/desire or just simply rubber stamp a proceedure and pay?


I can understasnd that if one has the cash to pay for elective/cosmetic surgery but surely if you have to pre-authorise a proceedure with a provider then the Insurer is the arbiter who decides whether to pay for it or not?

The needless stuff is not procedures so much as needless diagnostics.
I was referring to Americans having little interest in being healthy. Ergo the prevelance of chronic disease.

 

[The Scotsman]

I was referring to Americans having little interest in being healthy. Ergo the prevelance of chronic disease

ah okay mate I gotcha..

 

[Stalin]

NY times is War Party mouthpeace.

Of course it is going to publish articles like this..for which, hilariously, you have to pay for

avoid

Comrade Stalin

 

[montgomery2]

It's time to revive this thread. Both the Dems and the Repubs are talking up Obamacare now. The idea got a foot in the door and there's no turning back. First it's insurance for pre-existing conditions and soon universal health care will follow.

 

[Stalin]

Typical doctors..moaning about a pay raise from $30 to $900. I am completely unimpressed.

 

[Phoenix68]

I am in Europe. . .UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE is all over Europe, in one way or the other. Taxes are higher. . .and we get the benefits through MANY programs. . .not through ridiculous increase in "defence spending" and "tax breaks to the very wealthy!"

Didn't you know that communism reigns whole Europe since many years?

Some managed to sneak into Canada, as well.
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[Phoenix68]

I had a similar experience here in the USA: I dropped a section of plywood on my big toe. It hurt so much, I was sure I'd broken the toe, so I went to the emergency.

The emergency room doctor determined it wasn't broken, and then dug a little hole through the nail. Blood spurted out, and the pain was reduced by 90% immediately. It seems blood builds up in what is called a hematoma, and the pressure causes pain.

The same thing happens in the skull sometimes. That's one thing I never want to experience.

Oh, and the bill was a cool grand, that's right, $1,000 US dollars.

Well, at least you got some relief. . .and your wallet was a lot lighter! Amazing how expensive a tiny drill can be when in the hands of American healthcare!

It's another of our capitalistic-gifts that keep$ on taking!!!
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