Many healthcare companies have little flyers and hotlines to encourage people to take better care of themseves, dunno if it makes a difference though, certainly hasn't reduced the obeasity in America.
I have had oh 5 different insurances since 2000ish, The first was awesome to be pregnant in, DS cost a grand total of 270$
. DD on the other hand, lets just say I really want a home birth!
We have 'private' insurance and I am totally with 34 saving, you never know how much anything is going to cost, it is like pulling teeth to get the insurance companies to say anything in plain english, and many tests are not covered. Hence my low test pregnancy, which in some ways is fine, in others you have no idea the worry racking a mother who was recomended for a second US and can't afford it. but of course the public health insurance counterparts get plenty of US's paid for out of MY tax money.
Public isn't free I pay for everyone elses public care. I will not ask you to pay for a second US that will most likely show nothing important, that is a lot to ask of a stranger to pay for a minute less worry (I am pregnant I will find new things to worry about!)
I have a friend her pregnancy was covered under welfare, she got interesting care, I don't agree with it, but she got all she wanted, and she complained because her dental work was not covered after the baby was born, I who had no dental insurance at the time thought she should not whine to me. I who was paying for her insurance, while sitting with a toothache of my own. Only a good friend can complain like that to me and not get a lecture.
A monopoly is never a good way to run a buisness, and completly puplic-ising (wonder if that is a word?) the healthcare in America would be making a monopoly. Profits go down, number of jobs go down(any idea how many people staff those help desks for your insurance company?), quality of service generally goes down (do you really want to have to 'bribe' your ped to see your sick kid?). I know people think the waits will not go up, but how many hypochondriacs without insurance avoid the ER? They wont if they have healthcare (paid for by all woking americans)
Sure there are some sad cases of people suffering with no help due to lack of insurance and I would love to see more support of 'clinic care' and such, but I do not feel that my expensive ped all the way in charlotte is a right, it is a luxury to go see her (though she does do lots of donated clinic care). Having the shots for DCs is prolly saving America money, having a doc call DS 'dude' and talk of poltics in between measurments is a luxury
. (I tried a seperate ped first, hated her, searched out this one, cause I have the freedom to do that inside my network)
We monopolized education and saw literacy rates fall, should we monopolize healthcare and have the country everyone goes to to be a Doc start the descent down too?