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For-Profit Healthcare: Good for Insurers, Bad for Americans

All heath insurers have access to a medical records database and check it before issuing a policy. Yes, some people can lie; most people don't. Independent health research notes that it is virtually impossible to deliver decent, cost effective basic healthcare to citizens unless the providers are organized as not-for-profits. It can be done in the U.S.; see the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, etc. Only the U.S. and New Zealand allow prescription drug advertising on television. Eliminate this and the drug companies can save a lot of advertising dollars.


On Sep 06 10:42 PM 4Irish4Ever wrote:

> Your technicalities are people who misreperesent their health to
> obtain insurance while committing fraud and you expect all of the
> honest people who obtained insurance to pay for their fraud. Are
> you saying that those that enter into a contract for insurance and
> misrpepresent themselves resulting in obtaining insurance when they
> otherwise would have been declined should not be subject to consequences
> for this fraud?
>
> On Sep 06 03:01 PM Jeff Nielson wrote: