Yes, it's incomplete and holds the potential
to do nothing but enforce status quo with a few cosmetic changes.

One thing about insurance companies that they don't like to mention is that they are a complete power unto them selves. On one hand they force hospitals to take lower pay for their services while on the other they complain that government programs don't pay enough.

A couple of years ago I had a pretty bad life threatening bicycle accident with some interesting brain injury (might explain my posting here now), broken bones, etc. Anyway, I was in intensive care etc and when I got the bills from the hospital, they were for well over $20,000. If I did not have insurance I would have had to pay the full amount. The hospital however accepted about $9000 from the insurance company as payment in full. What a scam.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:29, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Damn.
That's a joke.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)