On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:16:05 -0600, "Pat" wrote:
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>> Yes, I have dealt with them for years and have never had a problem.
>> Others may have, but I and my family have never had one. And, in any
>> case, I have not said that the US system doesn't have problems, but
>> quite the opposite. That, however, does not have anything to do with
>> others also not having problems and, while rather not having to choose
>> at all, will take dealing with issues like this with a private company
>> than a government. And bean counters don't make these decisions
>> anyway. It's medical staff at those companies.
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>Well, you're wrong again. I personally know two people who cannot get
>operations sanctified by Workers' Comp because the insurance people told
>them they have to lose a certain amount of weight before they can get the
>surgery.
Go ahead and shake it all you want. You seem to understand little to
nothing about denial based on the health condition of the patient and
low risk of success. Organs for transplants are in scarce supply with
some 90,000 patients dying on waiting lists each year in the US alone
and you think they should be given to very high risk patients instead
of those that are likely to be successful? That's ridiculous. Tell
you what. Go take a statistics course so you might get some
understanding of what you are talking about and then go read the
recent Dutch study that showed smokers and obese people cost less on
average for healthcare than healthy people. Know why? Because they
die much earlier on average that's why. Now do you understand? |