Comments on: Who Chooses Your Surgeon, You or Someone You’ve Never Met? http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/ An open forum for the discussion of health care in a free market economy... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:22:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Insurance Small Business Health Insurance Nationwide Insurance http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-309 Insurance Small Business Health Insurance Nationwide Insurance Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:48:23 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-309 <strong>Insurance Small Business Health Insurance Nationwide Insurance</strong> I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view Insurance Small Business Health Insurance Nationwide Insurance

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]]> By: bart http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-279 bart Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:18:50 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-279 yeah - google and microsoft at at each other's throats to edge their way into health care - they don't even have fully developed business plans yet....just saturate the market with a presence and take hold. gotta love competition yeah - google and microsoft at at each other’s throats to edge their way into health care - they don’t even have fully developed business plans yet….just saturate the market with a presence and take hold. gotta love competition

]]> By: JARaphs http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-277 JARaphs Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:26:53 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-277 Take a look at this: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/google-health-begins-its-preseason-at-cleveland-clinic/?ref=technology Take a look at this:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/google-health-begins-its-preseason-at-cleveland-clinic/?ref=technology

]]> By: nunoftheabove http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-276 nunoftheabove Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:41:26 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-276 People are ignorant of health care choices for the same reason that many have continued to be ignorant of their retirement options--they have been allowed, no encouraged to let someone else take care of it for them--for better or worse. Need a nest egg for retirement? Let the government take the money out of your check every month and keep it until you get to be 65, no wait 66, no wait until, oops there is no money there left. Sorry ol' boy, you should have been watching your money closer. Same thing with health care...need a referral? Your primary care physician makes the call based on who your insurance will play ball with. And there you are with a pig in a poke. Oh, and the bill? Don't worry about it...you only have to pay this much and the rest will be "handled" by insurance. The consumer doesn't care about anything unless he is RESPONSIBLE for it--making the decision or writing the check. Nobody wants to make a decision when they are in a medical emergency, but there needs to be more willingness on the consumer's part to be pro-active in making medical decisions and quit depending on insurance or government nannies. People are ignorant of health care choices for the same reason that many have continued to be ignorant of their retirement options–they have been allowed, no encouraged to let someone else take care of it for them–for better or worse.

Need a nest egg for retirement? Let the government take the money out of your check every month and keep it until you get to be 65, no wait 66, no wait until, oops there is no money there left. Sorry ol’ boy, you should have been watching your money closer.

Same thing with health care…need a referral? Your primary care physician makes the call based on who your insurance will play ball with. And there you are with a pig in a poke. Oh, and the bill? Don’t worry about it…you only have to pay this much and the rest will be “handled” by insurance. The consumer doesn’t care about anything unless he is RESPONSIBLE for it–making the decision or writing the check.

Nobody wants to make a decision when they are in a medical emergency, but there needs to be more willingness on the consumer’s part to be pro-active in making medical decisions and quit depending on insurance or government nannies.

]]> By: bart http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-274 bart Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:04:54 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-274 good stuff good stuff good stuff good stuff

]]> By: JARaphs http://laissezfairehealthcare.com/2008/02/20/who-chooses-your-surgeon-you-or-someone-youve-never-met/#comment-273 JARaphs Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:44:31 +0000 http://bartmccollum.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-273 I don't see why people who seek it can't be trusted with more information. And it's a doubly dubious comment to be coming from someone who appears to gather and provide information (and no tangible good or necessary service) for a living. I wonder if he asks co-workers or friends for doctor recommendations, or if the name of his new GP just comes to him in a dream. I don’t see why people who seek it can’t be trusted with more information. And it’s a doubly dubious comment to be coming from someone who appears to gather and provide information (and no tangible good or necessary service) for a living. I wonder if he asks co-workers or friends for doctor recommendations, or if the name of his new GP just comes to him in a dream.

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