Re: I'm a bit confused

Docs ordering unnecessary MRIs may explain why my BF's appointment for an
MRI is 2-1/2 months out from his injury; they're that backed up. He's
unable to bear any weight at all on his leg, pain and swelling in the knee
and ankle, very little feeling in his foot, and it's been that way for 6
weeks now. X-rays show no fracture; we can only surmise it's a soft tissue
injury. Only another month to wait to get the MRI! <heavy sarcasm> I'm
praying he doesn't need it by that time.

Anne

"Samatha Hill -- take out TRASH to reply" <samhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Well you know what I mean. I work for a doctor who orders an MRI for
every new patient if they have not already been done. I will concede that
as a spine specialist, he is not the primary care doctor and when patients
come to him, they have pretty much exhausted the capabilities of primary
care doctors and that probably the only way to see if his practice can
help them is to get an MRI, which is a reasonable need for an MRI, but to
order one for my child just because they fell down and bumped their head
is ridiculous. And I am convinced that all of this extremely-high-tech
medicine that is so expensive is what is driving up the cost of health
care.

I am not saying that MRI scans are not needed at times. I am just saying
that maybe having affordable health care insurance for basic health care
might be better than not having any health care insurance because the cost
of including expensive high-tech medical insurance makes the insurance
prohibitive. I just read somewhere that the cost of something -- I think
it was like some kind of organ transplant, but don't quote me. Maybe it
was in the article I read about Steve Jobs getting an organ transplant two
months after being put on a list... --
that is now considered a standard of care costs about half a million
dollars just for the transplant process not to mention the anti-rejection
drugs you have to take as long as you live past that (what's the longest
anybody has lived after an organ transplant so far? A few years back, I
heard the longest was 10 years). The cost of being able to pay those
costs for every subscriber certainly has to have driven the cost of health
insurance up for everybody substantially. And if I don't even intend to
get an organ transplant, which I don't, there ought to be some
cafeteria-type plan just like my car insurance where I can opt out of
something if I don't want it. I think a lot of people would opt out of
high-tech stuff if it would give them health care they could afford.

Then again, the cost of covering health care and all the insurance billing
loopholes that have to be jumped through to get things paid for by
insurance plus providing a nice profit for the insurance company is
probably a lot more expensive than getting rid of for-profit insurance
altogether or maybe all insurance altogether and just giving everybody
health care savings accounts to pay for health care.

What really bothers me the most about all this socialzed government stuff
is that the mindset has gone from "the government should provide the
basics to everybody, and then if you want better you have to fund it
yourself," to "everybody should get the best."


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