That's a bad argument.

The insurance industry lobbied for this system. Government only creates winners and losers with everything it does. It isn’t complicated.

Prayers up for your daughter, Ratz.

I ordered flowers and got fishing baits for some weird reason. Hopefully the mri being cheap doesn’t show up as an X-ray

Mine was worse. I asked for a talk radio station. It was NPR reciting President Obama's greatest accomplishments.

Same here, it is always cheaper to pay cash if you haven’t met your deductible.. I dropped my health insurance this year, it got to be higher than my mortgage and was paying cash for [censored] anyway since they try to rape you to meet the deductible

Prayers for your daughter RATZ. Hopefully there is nothing major to be found, but hope they can find the source of her headaches.

It's actually the hospital we are talking about here, not the doctor. They invest in a multimillion dollar machine that helps diagnose illness. Then they pay high salaries to doctors and nurses for their expertise and training. In order to recoup these investments, they charge the patients that use them. But something like 25-30% of the patients they treat are indigents that pay nothing.

Look, I'm not saying its fair. But the reality is you cannot half regulate. You can't have a for profit system and not allow the market to regulate itself.

A fully capitalistic medical system would provide the absolute best medical care. But it would require some people to not have access to it.

A state funded medical system would provide full medical care to all, but because you are taking the incentive for profit out of the equation the quality of care diminishes.

Sure the UK has universal healthcare to all. But their level of healthcare is basically go to a clinic and get a prescription for an antibiotic and an aspirin. Getting an MRI to diagnose an underlying problem is a 6-month process. People in England with the means to do so come here for medical treatment, as do Canada.

Rewind 5 years ago. Take my daughter into Tx Childrens for Scoliosis follow up. Waiting room filled with 50-60 people. They are behind an hour or so we wait, wait, wait. Never once did I see one single person go to "cashier" window before being called in. Our name is called and before I can even get to the door, I am cut off by someone that says I need to report to the cashier before services can be rendered. I go to cashier and boom......$350. I paid it of course. I never saw one other party PAY anything. I am a teacher. I have OK insurance. I want whatever plan those other 58 people are on!!

What else did you expect when the dumbocrats and insurance companies got together to provide an affordable medical coverage plan.

yes. Sometimes hormone imbalance will cause them also.