The problem is that you aren't the customer. If you're like me, you pay perhaps a token $10 or $20 when you go to the doctor. For most patients, the insurance company is the customer. It's that way because there are serious incentives, and often requirements, that employers buy insurance or that they buy it for themselves.
And that is why the health care system is so screwed up -- because the patient isn't the customer.
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Date: 2007-06-08 03:02 pm (UTC)And that is why the health care system is so screwed up -- because the patient isn't the customer.