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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 03:51 PM
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40. Medical Professions Or Insurance Companies?
A big difference and one rarely talked about. It's the insurance companies overall mission to make profits that are the real engine that drives higher health cost prices. They determine what the costs are now and when things get outside their comfortable profit range they either raise rates, cut benefits or get government subsidies. Not a bad racquet and the GOOP lives with it far thicker than the Democrats do with the trial lawyers (ABA) and doctors (AMA).

These people set up the test you refer to as another "judge" if you are worthy of the coverage you've paid for. If the tests show your problem costs too much for your coverage, they'll have you take another test until things balance, or they cut benefits or drop your policy. There's virtually no accountability for this industry and they're gonna get more from this regime's latest fleecing of social services and the treasury.
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