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KrazyinKS

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3. Do the rich have problems sitting in the same waiting room as the poor?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 05:59 AM

Jul 2013

I have days where I think that is the real problem. I have been to a lot of doctors through the years, being a cancer survivor. There are rich people clinics and poor people clinics. The rich people clinics are popping up more often now. I think rich people feel very uncomfortable sitting in poor people clinics. They do not want to sit in the same room with someone who is struggling. That's why they don't want single payer, or at least part of the reason.

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How Much Could Medicare for All Save You? [View all] eridani Jul 2013 OP

K&R Sherman A1 Jul 2013 #1

they seems to do just fine in the medicare supplement field. I see their damned commercials all the ejpoeta Jul 2013 #2

Right now, private insurers administer all Medicare claims, and offer Medicare Advantage plans Hoyt Jul 2013 #6

If insurance companies are allowed to do NOTHING bur process claims, that would be fine eridani Jul 2013 #9

They do refuse to pay claims, like cosmetic surgery, over utilization, upcoding, false claims, fraud Hoyt Jul 2013 #19

The unscrupulous people are insurance companies eridani Jul 2013 #20

Insurance companies process Medicare claims, but that also entails denying "improper" claims. Hoyt Jul 2013 #21

I'd rather have those things determined by people who don't get bonuses eridani Jul 2013 #22

That's for sure. Hoyt Jul 2013 #23

Do the rich have problems sitting in the same waiting room as the poor? KrazyinKS Jul 2013 #3

The rich would demand the headsman theaocp Jul 2013 #7

they do on toronto's Sunnybrook cancer centre riverbendviewgal Jul 2013 #8

You have to be poor so they can be rich. bemildred Jul 2013 #11

Of course. There was talk of lowering the eligibility age to 55 when the ACA was being put together. geckosfeet Jul 2013 #4

Recced. nt livingwagenow Jul 2013 #5

But private plans subsidize Medicare and Medicaid Recursion Jul 2013 #10

Medicare was a way to keep the most expensive patients off the InsCos books. bemildred Jul 2013 #12

Providers, not insurers Recursion Jul 2013 #13

Providers don't have to be paid more. All we have to do is open the door. bemildred Jul 2013 #14

You mean the AMA's caps on med schools? Recursion Jul 2013 #15

No, I mean immigration, but what you mention too. bemildred Jul 2013 #16

That too. count me in Recursion Jul 2013 #17

Cool. I'm not saying we will do that. But we certainly could, no problem. bemildred Jul 2013 #18

KICK johnnyreb Jul 2013 #24

K&R woo me with science Jul 2013 #25

The PTB hate that idea. Then the insurance industry would Cleita Jul 2013 #26

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