A majority of people in the USA pay for insurance. Their premiums are high, and so are their deductibles. In the past you paid for your health care and you never questioned the cost because everything was laid out in black and white on paper for you to view. Insurance for the most part was affordable. Each payment on paper looked fine. The itemized list looked fine also.
Now days everyone questions why a persons medical bill is higher than say their neighbors? Or why certain test cost them cheaper than say what a non insured worker may of been charged? The insurance companies say the reason is because they can state they will pay a certain amount, and as you may know a insurance company does well at paying the amount set. But a non insured worker has no one on their side to help with the cost so the Hospitals can add extra charges along with higher amounts per day per room, and for the medical test etc. So the non insured worker pays out the butt for the same service that a insured worker receives. Is this right? I don't think so. I don't think it is fair because the non insured may be living paycheck to paycheck, and they can't afford to hire someone to keep their health cost down. So to me They are paying the extra because they can't afford to pay someone to haggle the price. They are being stomped on twice. Once by the health care system, and once just because they are poor, or they are living paycheck to paycheck. It's like the health care system is telling the poor they don't like them, and because we still have to serve your needs then we are going to charge you extra. And as you may already know the health care system does have to serve their needs if they recieve State or Federal money.
Enter the Enzi Bill. This bill will create a new bunch of people with insurance but their insurance will be limited. They may have a high deductible, certain things wont be covered, and they will be getting a heftier bill than the ones that are paying for premium insurance. They also may be tied paying extra cost as in higher prices for the same health services that a person is receiving under the premium. Why? Because the hospitals can do this crap and get away with it. They will call these people a higher liability, and then stick the higher cost on them. This is how our so caring health system works. They did it to the non insured and got away with it, they will do it to the ones with limited insurance too. So everyone is saying that the ones paying the higher cost for premium insurance will have to fork over the money for the ones that have a much less than premium insurance. No it wont. You don't slap the hand that feeds you well. You want the premium holders to come back for service again. The ones that are not insured or have less than premium insurance you don't care if they come back or not. So what if their bill is 33%+ higher than then premium insurance holders is.
I also suspect this will create families that will have to have two medical insurance policies in order to cover their health care needs. Because some insurance companys will charge more for certain health care coverage services, others wont cover certain ailments.
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