Posts Tagged ‘single payer’

The GOP Health Care Playbook

Stall. Stall. Stall. They’ll fight dirty now, as evidenced by the AHIP report. What’s more, they are apparently neglecting all aspects of the bills and only focusing on the regulations that they want to focus on to get the worst possible picture. Imagine, an insurance industry report showing dire things for the insurance industry in [...]

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Insurance Claims Wasteful

I wrote in a previous blog post the following: [H]ealth care insurance companies drive up costs on doctors by giving them a lot of paperwork to fill out. Given that health insurance companies want a lot of history to be kept on patients they require that everything be documented. While this is generally a good [...]

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Health Insurance Companies Don’t Work

Something that really upsets me is this notion that health insurance companies are a viable system in which to issue health care. There are a lot of problems with this as I see it. On the first point, health care companies have no way of being able to calculate the total risk to their assets. [...]

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