Is Healthcare Really Overrun?

Healthcare facilities are so overfilled here from covid, that the governor is going to force everyone to get vaccinated or lose their jobs.

Great way to make sure the hospitals have enough staff..
Just absurd

 

I agree. I do not want the people who are against vaccines to quit dying

 

Theresa Jordan, 60, Tampa, FL, Nurse handling COVID cases, anti-vaxxer, Died of COVID.

According to this post Theresa died of COVID on September 12, 2021. Apparently she was taking care of COVID patients throughout the pandemic and yet, she was an anti-vaxxer. What were you thinking?


https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthKnoxHighSchoolMemorialWall

Byron Webb, 57, Twin Falls, ID, Registered Nurse, anti-vaxxer. Dead from COVID.

According to this obituary Bryon died from COVID on August 18. 2021. He leaves behind a wife and four children. Yet another Nurse. His daughter is also an RN but a vaxxer who worked at the hospital her father died at. Her message is important.

 

I guess it's good we're firing all our "at risk" personnel.

 

they're firing themselves.

on accounta they're lazy marxists

 

I have to give @JoeNation an attaboy. He is 100% correct about the rebate. I pay health insurance for my employees and my company received a substantial rebate last month for the very same reason.

And in an effort to comment on the intent of the thread, yes the medical care field is entirely separate from the insurance field. However what the ACA did effectively do was to tie the two inexorably together. They are absolutely very intertwined with one another as a result of the ACA. If you have any relationship with your doctor, ask him if you could take a look at his receivables staff. I can assure you that he has three people on staff trying to collect monies from insurance for every one person tending to medical care. And rest assured, all that additional staff has driven up your medical costs.

There is simply no way around it. When the fed assumes control of anything, it is not done efficiently. Efficiency doesn’t have any place in any federally run program. The fed doesn’t have to earn those funds, therefore they don’t have to consider efficiency when spending them.

 

ummm...you got more of your money back because the government mandated it

 

I get that and I appreciate it. However I have also talked on here many times previously on how those costs have dramatically increased since the ACA went into effect. I won’t rehash that again but rest assured I would have been faarrr better off financially had I been paying pre-ACA premiums.

 

Inefficiencies always occur when the people receiving a service is separated from those paying for the service. There's no point-of-sale oversight.

 

I just heard on the news that there a bunch (don't know how many) healthcare workers who have had COVID and don't want the vaccine. The mandate goes into effect soon (this week I think) and there's talk about calling out the National Guard to take over for all the fired healthcare workers.

These brainiacs don't seem to realize that National Guardsmen are "weekend warriors". Meaning, they have day jobs...in the HEALTHCARE BUSINESS! This isn't some huge reserve of healthcare workers just sitting around doing nothing! Lol...you can't make this stuff up!

 

Great points Randy. I would say what the ACA added was layer of oversight to the insurance industry. The insurance companies didn't want that for obvious reasons and railed against the passage of the ACA and with the help of the GOP, we got a watered down version of federal oversight. Anything as important as individual health care should not be exclusively in the hands of for-profit entities. Corporations, i.e. insurance companies, have exactly zero incentives to provide quality health care and every incentive to maximize their own profits. I don't get to vote for the people in private health care corporations but they do get to decide which doctor I see, how often, what tests are needed, and how much it will cost me. The less services they provide, the more money they make. Until the ACA came along, there was nothing to prevent them from denying health care based on preexisting conditions like pregnancy, heredity, or any other high risk (translation, expensive) health care needs.

With less and less employers offering health benefits, we were seeing millions and millions of people without health care all across the country. Is health care getting more expensive? Absolutely it is. Americans pay the most for basic health care, pharmaceuticals, and hospital stays and yet our health outcomes are 37th in the world. What are we paying for anyway? The insurance companies take about 20% of the health care dollars and are completely unnecessary. They add piles of paperwork to every doctor's office in the country. No other country has this problem except this country.

And oh yeah, what happens when people reach their sixties and begin to use health care resources at a greater rate? At that point, the health insurers say whoa! The government should insure those people not us. If we took that 20% of health care costs away from private insurers and invested it in Medicare, all that money that was paid in over the lifetime of patients would fund their later years instead of the tax payers having to take on that burden.

You know what would replace every health insurance provider in the country easily? A website. Like every other industrialized country on the planet. Imagine that.

 

Yeah, we don't need to know what Fox says.