If someone else was paying the premiums for my health care, the co-pay I have to cough up when I see the doc wouldn't feel like a rip-off. But when I'm paying the $344/month premium myself, that additional $25 makes me ask what the hell I'm getting for those "dues."
Don't say "peace of mind," because knowing I somehow have to come up with it every month is anything but soothing.
Posted by Linkmeister at July 24, 2009 11:49 AM | TrackBackThere's something about the whole HMO approach to health care that reminds me entirely too much of a casino: you give them money, and their goal is to make sure you get less of it back than you started with. In the case of an HMO, their goal is to ensure you don't get as much (or more) value than you put in. It seems to me fee-for-service with catastrophic event insurance would be a much better way.
Posted by: Rob McMillin at July 24, 2009 01:03 PMI guess it is up to us individually to keep healthy.
Health care stinks as it currently is-and believe me I have worked in the field and been a patient. The quality of health care workers has decreased, just as it has in other areas. People don't care much anymore.
It is especially heartbreaking when you or a loved one is in the hospital and care stinks.
Let us all hope we die in our sleep....