"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Upscale wrote:
"Jack Stein" wrote in message
dollars? Now, add in the rest of the country and you don't need
much imagination to see that the 80-85% that are happy with their
current

I don't believe that 85% bull**** for one second, but just for the
sake of argument, let's assume it's true. The US has a population of
300 million. That leaves 45 million people that are unsatisfied with
your healthcare setup. That's a god awful lot of people who feel
they're not receiving adequate healthcare.

45 million. Use a little perspective will you?

The ~85% figure of people being "satisfied" with their health insurance
(not care) is correct. There have been at least three large surveys that
all come up with about the same figure.

Still, there's a difference between "feeling" the health care was
inadequate and not actually receiving proper health care. Probably that
percentage of folks are just malcontents who, upon receiving a free bar of
gold, would complain that it wasn't in a box. In other words, the
patient's impression is not the best metric for deciding "proper."

I might be hopping mad over a leg amputation, but medically it may have
been the proper treatment.


One thing I have learned about insurance is that there are different
"standards of care".
The dentist, under my old dental insurance, insisted on pulling a tooth and
replacing it
with a bridge rather than providing a root canal and a crown. I found a
new dentist,
paid for the root canal and crown out of my own pocket, and dropped the
dental insurance...

I think the latter process was too time consuming for the doctor, whom from
me, made
most of his money from me collecting my monthly premiums.

Bill