WAPO: Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?

[SLClarke]

10. Level of care? Really?

The level of care that Americans currently "enjoy" is appalling. I say that as a health care provider with members being mostly women, and mostly 30 years of age and above. Insurance companies decide what is paid for and what isn't - not your doctor. If you lose and / or change your job, your health insurance often changes. Every year, your deductibles go up and the procedures you might need are put at risk because an insurance company has changed the parameters of care. Your doctor is increasingly told to take less time with you because they need to see more patients per hour, thereby putting their skills and your health at risk. Insurance companies, based on a cost-benefit program, decide what medications you have to take before you get the medication that is suitable for you, and more. Enough already. If everyone with their $500.00 or more per month fee, plus their deductible were able to pay a fraction of that, we would all save money, and our health would improve.