I terminated my Blue Shield a little over a year ago when it went up to $250.00 per month, up from $150 per month. I had superb coverage for the longest time then, all of the sudden, the rates kept going up up up ^ with no end in site so I just pulled the plug. Rates are going up because of a lack of receivables plain and simple. You do know that it's a matter of law that hospitals cannot turn away patients, right ? I don't want to get into the illegal alien debate at the moment, but there is an undeniable strain on the system. God bless most of the illegal immigrants for their hard work and all but you know as well as I do that our hospitals cannot expect to stay in business when we have opportunist politicians allowing for the integrity of our southern border to be compromised. There's is huge lobby pressure e.g. (under the table bribery) c/o the big corporations to keep border enforcement light so that said corps can exploit a cheap source of labor and on and on. You know the rest of the vicious cycle, everything is relative to another.
America's health care system should be for AMERICANS. The fucking corporations should be paying the health care costs of their foreign laborers, not u.s. , would you agree ? That's likely the root source of our problem, the greedy asshole CEOS with their cheap labor pools are not offering benefits, now everything is screwed for everybody ! :flame:
It just infuriates me how both capitalism as, well ... liberalism has to be moderated, but there are no moderators. :dunno:
Sad
