LeoTheDog

UnitedHealth’s Insurance To Get Insurance Is Ridiculous

Spot on, Herbert. UNH will offer you the illusion of coverage today, but when the time comes for them to make good you can guarantee that they will leave you hanging. Any "free market" solution to healthcare will be little more than an illusion, with massive inefficiencies baked in.

All the criticism of "socialized" medicine ignores the reality that in most of the industrialized world healthcare benefits are delivered at a fraction of the cost that Americans pay, with results that we can only dream of.

Obscured by all the blather about waiting periods or inability to choose doctors is the fact that nearly all "socialized" medical systems provide outcomes that are far superior to ours; if you care about infant mortality, life expectancy and cost, that is....