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We Need Single Payer 0

We have rationing. It’s not rationing based on need or any rational measure; it’s rationing based on demand for country-club memberships.

On Feb. 10 — after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware denied coverage three times for a stress test that would have revealed severe arterial blockage — doctors opened Fields’ chest and performed heart-bypass surgery that his cardiologist said almost certainly prevented a massive heart attack and saved his life.

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Health care reform legislation pending before Congress would not restructure that system, although it could provide more transparency.

The whole article is worth a read.

A related story points out that health insurance premiums have doubled in the last ten years.

The quality of health care sure hasn’t doubled in the last ten years.

Afterthought:

Profiting from misery–>miserable profits.

The system is broken.

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