Comments on: Fainting in America

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:44:58 +0000

“When are America’s health care givers going to give all of us one?”Health Care Givers? … Wealth Care Takers more like(BTW the organisations, not the individuals)

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:54:16 +0000

One of the big costs for hospitals and medical care providers is nonpayment (like for mortgage lenders). Therefore on average they need to charge more than cost + margin to cover for the losses due to nonpayment. Insurance companies can negotiate lower rates because they guarantee that the hospital/medical care provider is paid, so they insist that they don’t cover for any of the nonpayments. This leaves the uninsured, so the losses from nonpayments are spread out over a smaller pool of people and this drives up the cost difference significantly.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:51:57 +0000

Excellent article. I’d love to see a follow up that explores the way billing is handled – who gets billed, who doesn’t, what percentages, etc. This is a very much mis-understood and obscured area of the whole package.

By: m coffman

m coffman — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:40:24 +0000

As a person who can not obtain any health insurance atany price, not even a catastrophic policy with a $10,000 deductible–this situation would have been a nightmare. I do have money set aside to cover possible healthcare emergencies—but with no transparency as to the REAL cost (that is what aninsurer would pay) there is no way not to get totallyripped off as the hapless “consumer” of this type ofhealth care.Transparency of cost would give a better insight intothe deductible you were forced to pay—and just pon-der, how would you handle these bills without insurance as so many of us are forced to do?Perhaps grind all bills through the Medicare Grinder,and see if you could come up with that sum? as opposed to the totally bogus sum they hope you will pay.

By: Jose Luis Altamirano

Jose Luis Altamirano — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:46:46 +0000

Like Einstein once wrote:”Anywhere we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development,It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to obtain objective conclusions and make intelligent use of their political rights”.The importance of Nielsen’s article is about a objective thought about the health system in America, and the comment of this anonymous user lacks total intelligent approach and use of our political rights in this situation and besides as a Doctor (I’m Internal Medicine MD)the diagnosis Nielsen’s presents in the article is utterly accurate, but then again I have to congratulate the writer for his brave comments about very important community problem/.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:09:42 +0000

FAINTING: THE CAUSEOne problem witl illegal drugs is the lac of research and general ignorance such laws promote.The writer’s fainting spell sounds typical of the infrequently occuring low blood pressure attack associated with marijuana consumption.I would give odds and bet money the writed was high on cannabis.I have been stoned for over 10,000 days of my life and have had this happen once but have witnessed it many times.