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In reply to the discussion: Mark Cuban's Healthcare Fix: We Need a Single-Payer System [View all]Alice11111
(5,730 posts)is drained." How true, like dental care. Poor people can just lose their teeth becase insurance for dental is a joke.
Medicare patients, they keep until the last days of insurance coverage, sick or not. Then, they kick them out, no matter how sick they are. It would balance out more nicely to treat people when they need it, rather than because insurance will pay, and release them when they can safely go home, rather than holding them hostage, and then throwing them out. It is down the rabbit whole where up is down. We are used to it and put up with it, like the frog in boiling water analogy, which is actually unpleasant.
I agree, "Worser, Slower," to the point sometimes treatment is a moot point or one has become so sick, there is a whole different set of problems to treat.