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Originally Posted by Broken5hift
striving for something better than we have now? are you saying what we have now is as good as it could be?
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of course its not as good as it could be, but its also not nearly as bad as he makes it out to be. A few examples for you that you won't hear in his movie. The average American is very satisfied with their medical care. The number of people uninsured, put at 44 million, actually is a stretch of the truth. On average 12 million people are consistently uninsured for over a year. The rest of those 44 million are people may at one point or another not have coverage for one reason or another but are not consistently uninsured. Some may be young, like us, and choose not to enroll. Others may be between jobs or just started a new job and have not yet started the plan and of these 44 million, a large percentage of them are elidgible for Medicare/Medicade but just haven't enrolled.
There are ways to fix what we have. My uncle, who works for a large insurer who will go unnamed, was telling me about one program he is working on. They are going to make network "gift cards". Basically what will happen is this. A normal person, whithout insurance goes to a doctor and pays say 100 bucks. if you buy a "gift card" you have then just bought a $50 credit in that network and can get network rates. So now, you can go visit a doctor but go see him for $25 since you are getting the bulk rate.