Comments on: The real cost of healthcare http://homertribune.com/2009/10/the-real-cost-of-healthcare/ Homer, Alaska Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:51:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: stina http://homertribune.com/2009/10/the-real-cost-of-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-454 stina Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:30:35 +0000 http://homertribune.com/?p=5823#comment-454 Thank you Sean! This important aspect of the Health Care debate is always left out. Yes, the insurance companies are greedy and deny procedures for their own financial benefit, but why do the insurance companies have to pay the hospitals these ridiculous prices in the first place? Health care costs are the reason that insurance companies have to charge so much, but everyone seems to blame them without looking at the original cause. In Japan, an MRI cost $98. In the US, thousands! In is now cheaper to take a vacation and get your medical procedures done. Health care should not be about profit. The result of this is that we still haven't found a cure for Cancer (the treatment of Cancer nets the hospitals hundred of thousands) but we have ten different drugs for prolonging your...evening fun. To quote" V" on the eve of Halloween "There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?" Thank you Sean!
This important aspect of the Health Care debate is always left out. Yes, the insurance companies are greedy and deny procedures for their own financial benefit, but why do the insurance companies have to pay the hospitals these ridiculous prices in the first place? Health care costs are the reason that insurance companies have to charge so much, but everyone seems to blame them without looking at the original cause.
In Japan, an MRI cost $98. In the US, thousands! In is now cheaper to take a vacation and get your medical procedures done. Health care should not be about profit. The result of this is that we still haven’t found a cure for Cancer (the treatment of Cancer nets the hospitals hundred of thousands) but we have ten different drugs for prolonging your…evening fun. To quote” V” on the eve of Halloween “There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?”

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