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Andre Bonneau's avatar

Well, what a story. I’m a Canadian physician, and I am glad I never had to deal with greedy insurance companies. When a patient walked in my office, my main concern was to determine what was the best treatment for the patient in front of me. I made a decent living, but nothing compared to my American counterparts. However, I practised medicine for 41 years and was happy all the time and this can’t be measured in money. Now I am retired and I have the feeling of having done my best and my patients got the best and didn’t lose their shirt to get it. My American friends, keep fighting, just like most of the Western countries you too deserve the best, the easy way.

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Paul T Pitlick's avatar

It's capitalism at work. "Markets" can be, and are, very innovative. But EVERYTHING has up-sides and down-sides, although there are different "up's" vs. "down's" for every thing. When a thing has mostly ups, markets continue to do well. But the more downs there are, markets do less well, and help from the government is needed. Health care insurance really got going during WWII as a benefit to auto workers. As more and more things got dumped into the pot, it has started to work less well. The US now pays more for health care with worse results than most "civilized" countries. Perhaps, if folks in the US started voting for people who believe that government can actually work, rather than voting for people who think government doesn't work and then do their best to make it fail (scooping the profits into their own pockets), we might do better. Not sure we will we wake up by 2026, but we will see...

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