Reply #67: Actually, there is something to this. [View All]

Found minor skin cancer when I was in the HMO. Took six weeks to get it worked on.

Broke my hand a few weeks ago while I have Point-Of-Service insurance. Saw specialist five days later. Had surgery one week after breaking the hand.

While it is ridiculous treating medical treatment like a luxury item, I don't want to see us go the HMO route either which is what the taxpayer-funded, single-payer option looks like to me. Right now the HMOs are screwing everything up in the attempt to make a profit. Were it in gov't hands it would be screwed up by Republics and the Media to "prevent waste". So we have to take the potential for fraud out of the picture.

And the only way to do that is with a complete overhaul of the system, not by throwing a bandage on it. Open up enough public hospitals to drive all but the most exclusive privates out of business. Put the MDs on salary and let them DO WHAT THEY THINK IS BEST knowing they're going to get paid a set salary regardless.