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• Comment Link Friday, 12 February 2010 14:16 posted by paul lorinczi

  I am beginning to think that the option of starting over may be a good one. Insurance is not the only problem with healthcare. Maybe we need to totally dismantle the system and start over with cash only services for acute care and insurance for catastrophic illness? Let's try having doctors publish the rates of their services. Do people realize their visit is costing $100 to see the doctor. He sees you for 5 minutes and prescribes you a pill. That is a weeks worth of groceries. Supposedly we provide the best healthcare in the world, yet doctors still use pen and paper. My boss asks me what I did lately, I need to provide a report. How do Doctors know they are providing good health if they can not quantify their data? Insurance companies are part of the problem. But, the problem is much bigger than insurance only. It may take years to fix it, but I think starting with a simple requirement to have healthcare providers publish their fees could be a good step in helping patients become consumers of their healthcare. Today, it is really hard to do and we all find ourselves spending more than we should.

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