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RE: Every Child in the US Regardless of Economic Situation Deserves Free Healthcare
look up the Oklahoma Surgery Center, they post their prices on line and are 10s of thousands of dollars cheaper than the hospitals in the area, it can be done and these are the same surgeons and anesthiologist (i know i spelled it wrong) that work at the major hospitals, there are people from all over the country going to that place for surgeries, one of the main difference is they are self managed and rarely accept insurance.
If they don't or rarely, accept insurance, then I am guessing the vast majority of people can't conceivable afford their services.
I mean if I need a series of surgeries that going to cost say 30k, along with a year of physical therapy and various prescription meds to recover, let's say somwhere in the neighborhood of 40k total cost for the whole shebang....if I am told "Hey, there's this place that will do it for 23k rather than 30k, but they don't take insurance so you have to pay for all of it yourself".....that doesn't really help me. It might as well cost 500K and be done on the moon for all that helps me. I still can't even remotely afford that, and I would have to go with the overall more expensive, but less expensive directly to me, insurance option somewhere else.
The problem is that healthcare just cost too damn much, I would love to live in a world where insurance was only needed for occasional rare catastrophic medical conditions, and that most citizens could pay for most medical expenses out of their own regular income.
That is the world I would like to live in, but that is not the world we occupy. We occupy a world where you have to be pretty damn well off to have even a reasonable shot at affording care out of your own pocket, even at places like the Oklahoma Surgery Center, and the overwhelming majority of people have utterly no hope of affording medical expensive stuff without insurance, making them a neccesity.
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they are creating a network of free market doctors from every discipline, all the way up to brain surgery and rapidly spreading across the United States, check out the Oklahoma surgery center website
None of that seems to be any kind of response to my point above. If I need a knee replacement surgery along with the related physical therapy and medications....how much will that cost me through membership in this network? Will I even remotely be able to afford it? Based on a quick perusal of their website, no, it appears to be far beyond my financial means or those of most of the nation.
Sooooo......what's your point? Being only kinda ridiculously unaffordable instead of utterly and completely ridiculously unaffordable isn't exactly a real improvement.