• If you are having problems logging in please use the Contact Us in the lower right hand corner of the forum page for assistance.

Healthcare article

A

Anonymous

Guest
This morning I searched the internet hoping to find the actual cost of health care in the USA. I was hoping to find the actual total cost, including health insurance, medical bills, prescribed medicine over the counter medicine. I was looking for the total cost of it all. Never did find anything but found a seven page article at this website. I found it interesting. http://www.tefen.com/data/uploads/The%20Tefen%20Tribune/Will%20the%20BabyBoom%20Bust%20Healthcare.pdf

Also found articles where a CT scan would cost anyone without insurance up to $6500 and if a person was insured the cost to the insurance company would be in the range $500 more or less.
Also this morning on Face the Nation it was shown that an employer furnishing insurance to an employee was faced with an insurance premium
in the 12 to 13 thousand range. With the employer picking up around 9 thousand of it and the employee the rest. The employer can pass on his part within the cost of the product that is being produced and also take it of of the bottom line as an expense. The employee is getting 9 thousand dollars worth of insurance given to him as far as he is concerned. Should this be considered part of his income and taxed.
Do the people in America really know the true cost of health care or not.
All they see is the copay and their part of the premium. This my opinion and mine alone. Let us discuss it.
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
In Canada most provinces use a sales tax to provide some money for health care then take the rest of of income tax. We have higher rates then comparative payers in the US.
What i have read is that our costs are comparable bu the Us was lower then in Canada. We are struggling with waiting list and a shortage of doctors. Have the doctors in the US ever gone on strike for higher wages?

Our "local" hospital is 60 miles away. The doctor just received an award provincially for his work but they are trying to raise money locally for a new hospital as the old one has a leaky roof, flooring duct taped down and is generally out lived it's usefulness.
The doctor has patients coming from a city 80 miles away because they don't have a family doctor where they live and this one hates to turn anybody away.
 
A

Anonymous

Guest
Big Muddy rancher said:
In Canada most provinces use a sales tax to provide some money for health care then take the rest of of income tax. We have higher rates then comparative payers in the US.
What i have read is that our costs are comparable bu the Us was lower then in Canada. We are struggling with waiting list and a shortage of doctors. Have the doctors in the US ever gone on strike for higher wages?

Our "local" hospital is 60 miles away. The doctor just received an award provincially for his work but they are trying to raise money locally for a new hospital as the old one has a leaky roof, flooring duct taped down and is generally out lived it's usefulness.
The doctor has patients coming from a city 80 miles away because they don't have a family doctor where they live and this one hates to turn anybody away.

Tyler Texas is known for its hospitals and medical care facilities. There are two main hospitals there. They are ETMC and Mother Frances. Mother Frances is a Catholic sponsered hospital with nuns policing the floors. They also have a hosipital adminstrator. ETMC is a hosipital supported by taxes on property if you are in the hosipital district . Both are real good. They have competing facilities all the way down to dual diiagnostic tools. ETMC and Mother Frances also have clinics spread all over East Texas. A doctor working in them has no choice as who is nurse will be or his office staff they are sent to the clinic he works in. He is nothing more than an employee of the hosipital. I have heard pros and cons of each one. I have experiance with ETMC as I had to go through the ER with a twisted intestant about this time last year. Four x rays were done and one ct scan still had to cut me open to find the obstruction. I have a scar down the left side of my belly about ten inches long. I thought they could do the minimum invasive surgery. I asked the surgeon about it and he said he had to open me up enough to get his hand in there and then pull the intestants out to get to the scar tissue. Now he was aware that I had an appendectomy when I was about 14 years old. That is where the scar tissue was. I made an appointment with my family doctor 4 weeks ago will get in next Friday. So there is five weeks. I will more than likely get there on time and wait an extra 45 minutes in his waiting room and another thirty minutes in hs exam room.
 
Top