Medicare and medicaid is making heath cost go way up

[tas38]

It's funny how everyone thinks, the heath care cost problem is mostly greedy incs, when in fact medicare and medicaid is one of the biggest problems.

I know this for a fact I have medicare and medicaid, medicaid does not pay for 2 years or more, and then only a very small part of what owned. Medicare pays faster and a little more, but they way under paid for what is owed. They pass laws, that they can pay what they want and for what they want.

My doctor was paid as little as $17 for me already, they do this all the time and some one has to make up for it. And that rises heath care cost for everyone else, it's the same with medicare part D for meds. They tell the doctors what drugs they can give us, and then how much they are going to pay for them.

Thinks it's not that bad, well I just had to get all my teeth pulled out. Before I could get a spine operation for myelopathy, my spinal cord is being choked off and it's starting to do nerve damage. There are my dentist that can do that here where I live, but none of them will take the medicaid card.

So I found the closest one 60 miles from home, and that one was booked for over 2 months, so I had to wait that long and I had to pay $50 for the 1st visit. They said they would not be billing medicaid, then I waited over 2 months to get them pulled. The copay was $63 they was pulled all at once, now this was the fastest I could get it done.

I got them pulled on the 24th and seen my neurosurgeon on the 26th, now I have to wait 2 months for my gums to heal. So medicaid was charged only for pulling them, and I had to pay a copay that about covered the dentist time. It's not only here like this, people have died because they could not find a dentist, to take the medicaid card.

It has been said already that they could not, make a system or plan like medicare or medicaid for everyone. The heath care system would be BK in a few months, because medicare and medicaid under pay so badly. Yet we don't hear much about this big problem, and this is one of the biggest problem in the heath care system today.

[south]

Ouch! Damn. Sorry to hear that Tas.

And yes, the problem is only growing as the population is aging.

I see no real solution. A single payer system, such as proposed by the current administration might theoretically help bring costs down, could not be paid for, especially considering the waste & corruption involved with anything controlled by the government, not to mention the privacy issues & control over peoples lives as currently being debated by most of the country at the moment.

As a believer in capitalism, I would like to think there could be a private solution with competitive markets setting the rates for medical care. However, there is very little competition in the medical field. No doctors office I have been in lists their prices for the specific services offered, and they all have more work than they can handle anyway. The demand far outweighs the supply. There is no incentive for them to be competitive. Perhaps if there was a website/ national clearinghouse / reverse auction, elance sort of thing for medical services, where medical offices could bid on services required. Obviously there would still need to be catastrophic coverage for true emergencies, unexpected / unplanned events. I Dunno.

Hope you get through it safely though man.
Scott

[tas38]

Thanks South!!

Ya I don't get what they are thinking, they need to get cost under control. The gov't handed medicare and medicaid over to private incs, they have only made things much worst. I think the gov't need to take back control over medicare and medicaid, and do things to let the private heath care work out getting prices lower.

Insurance is the biggest problem right now, the gov't let them say what doctors can and can not do, when they only care about their bottom line. They can care less if people die as long as they save money, and they should of never been left do that ever.