User:Jcwill60

subject: health reform health bill getting to the basics. the insurance companies are paid by us health needers in the form of premiums. right? Then they take a big slice for themselves - right? so --- if health insurance companies were not in the picture then what?

lets see --  what if:

all hospitals and medical services organizations and providers in the USA joined a government insurance type run health services plan. And the government collects the premium payments. (like the health insurance companies) The govrenment could then match the premiums. Which makes our premium payment part even lower.

so -- premium payments then go to a government central health treasury service. when one of us becomes sick and needs the service of a health provider. We go to the hospital, doctor or dentist in our area who belong to the Government Health Services Organization (GHSO.) And the GHSO pays the bill.

(the idea here is that all or most hospitals, doctors and dentists belong).

premium payments would be less because the insurance companies are not involved. correct? That means lower premium payments. right?

I feel this way we have doctors telling us what is bad and what must be done about it. Possibly the same doctors and/or hospitals you have always gone to.

NOTE: Contrary to belief -- Health  Insurance  companies in this country in the past have denied proceedures for patients. When the patient really needed it. They have held up necessary medical procedures. They have done all the bad things that they have paid for in ads to discredit the health reform bills proposed. So--- they know what bad really is !! add any comments below the double line.

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