Originally Posted by
eja_ bottecchia
Paint-by-numbers is exactly it.
I have a friend who is French. He and his family (wife and two kids) receive top-notch health care at very little cost. He is heavily taxed but at least their healtcare system appears to be working. Which is NOT where we are going here.
I don't know about France, but within the UK public system it is difficult to receive elective medical care in a timely fashion after age 70.
I have often said I wouldn't mind having a health insurance policy that paid nothing, but which merely negotiated the lowest possible rate for me on
any procedure I chose to have. If your Statement of Benefits is typical, it will display a total negotiated cost, to be shared by patient and insurer, which is as low as 25% of the list price for the same procedure. This is where the uninsured really get it stuck to them.
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