Just got new health insurance RATES!!!

The whole 3rd party paying system needs to be burned to the ground and started over by letting actual market forces of supply and demand take effect. Look at Lasek surgery. Most med insurance won't cover it so its actually been a provider-consumer market and the pirces have come donw considerably since it first came out. After college, I worked for one of the local hospitals when I couldn't find a job with my degree. It had started a system but was still a smaller regional place. Now its a multi-billion dollar affair that has no one overseeing it except a board of a "foundation" (yeah, that's open for public inspection!!). The state pols are in these guys pockets because a lot of out of staters come in for med services and then the famailies go shopping (my state lives by sales tax, the more spenders the better).



My advice is to find a catastrophic plan and then see if there is any at all independent health care providers who take cash only in your area. Not that common but there is a theme rising of some med folks sick of the s*** of being "employed" by the "non-coprorate" corporations and have ditched taking insurance. That's where it needs to begin again. Screw the gov and the third parties. Power to the people!!!