http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/2007/03/02/government-is-wrong-on-healthcare/ Management, Leadership, Diversity, Customer Service, Motivation, and Healthcare Finance Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:37:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/2007/03/02/government-is-wrong-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-12805 Mitch Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:34:29 +0000 http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/2007/03/02/government-is-wrong-on-healthcare/#comment-12805 Greetings DM. First, thanks for the comment. Second, let me just ask you this question. If you have a terminal illness, wouldn't you want to not only be able to go to the hospital for treatment, but have your insurance company pay for it? That's why it's incumbent upon insurance companies to work more with hospitals as far as making sure the reimbursements to hospitals and physicians is fair. The alternative, which I know you'd be firmly against even more, is for hospitals to NOT accept the payments insurance companies dole out as payments in full, with or without copays and deductibles, and bill patients for full balances, which is starting to happen at some hospitals across the country. Not many hospitals have that kind of leverage, but some do, and if more hospitals get together and decide to do just that, will you then say that the hospitals have the full right to demand that all their costs be paid by the people, regardless of whether they have insurance or not? Greetings DM. First, thanks for the comment. Second, let me just ask you this question. If you have a terminal illness, wouldn’t you want to not only be able to go to the hospital for treatment, but have your insurance company pay for it? That’s why it’s incumbent upon insurance companies to work more with hospitals as far as making sure the reimbursements to hospitals and physicians is fair. The alternative, which I know you’d be firmly against even more, is for hospitals to NOT accept the payments insurance companies dole out as payments in full, with or without copays and deductibles, and bill patients for full balances, which is starting to happen at some hospitals across the country. Not many hospitals have that kind of leverage, but some do, and if more hospitals get together and decide to do just that, will you then say that the hospitals have the full right to demand that all their costs be paid by the people, regardless of whether they have insurance or not?

]]> http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/2007/03/02/government-is-wrong-on-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-12656 DM Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:19:25 +0000 http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/2007/03/02/government-is-wrong-on-healthcare/#comment-12656 Why do you pick on the insurance companies out of all of them to fix the problems? Why should they be demanded, let alone be asked to share their cost with hospitials? Why would insurances even be in the "busniess" in the first place? the problem with healthcare is cost, and that is the final solution. you said so in your argument at the beginning and should have ended it there. NO ONE wants to cut costs, if you ask the insurance to share proftis, they are only going to ask higher and higher premimus with less benefits to us. And if they have less baragainig power, I promise you will see less good results from a doctor cause he will not have to work as hard to be contracted. Why do you pick on the insurance companies out of all of them to fix the problems?
Why should they be demanded, let alone be asked to share their cost with hospitials? Why would insurances even be in the “busniess” in the first place?
the problem with healthcare is cost, and that is the final solution. you said so in your argument at the beginning and should have ended it there.
NO ONE wants to cut costs, if you ask the insurance to share proftis, they are only going to ask higher and higher premimus with less benefits to us.
And if they have less baragainig power, I promise you will see less good results from a doctor cause he will not have to work as hard to be contracted.

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