“Our members then say, ‘Well, why is health insurance so expensive?’”Ronald A. Williams, chairman and chief executive of Aetna Inc., said in an interview. “And the answer is because you’re paying for your own care as well as for the care of some of the uninsured in the community.”
Do you know what the No Insurance Club says to that ridiculous response? We call BS! Health insurance doesn’t have to be expensive
just because your neighbor doesn’t have health insurance. Sure, if your neighbor is losing their home, it might affect your property value. But if you’re neighbor gets horribly sick and ends up in the emergency room, that shouldn’t affect the property value of your medical plan. It’s a backwards way of trying to explain high health care costs.
The Medical Mafia is using politics and persuasion to convince hard-working people that their through-the-roof health insurance costs are due to their neighbors’ problems. Does that explain why they don’t cover half of what they say they will? Maybe they’re covering it on your neighbors’ side, but forgot to mention that in the small print.
The No Insurance Club doesn’t charge you for your neighbors’ illness. Don’t get me wrong, we all want to be there for each other, and help out in every way possible. But it is going overboard to allow the Medical Mafia to fault all of their overpriced services on the uninsured. It’s a cop-out, and one that only injures our recession-plagued society more.
The vicious cycle of health insurance occurs daily in hospitals and health insurance companies across the U.S. According to Williams from Aetna, Tom goes into the hospital without health insurance. The hospital treats him, and has to charge the health insurance company. The health insurance company pays the fees, and then has to raise its health insurance premiums for those who are paying patients.
Once again, the No Insurance Club calls BS! We know many stories of individuals heading to the emergency room without health insurance, being treated, then being billed directly. The health insurance company doesn’t pay the hospital.
Take our Dr. Downs story. His is just one example of many where health insurance companies blame their high fees on the uninsured, but if Aetna, or any other health insurance company, truly paid for every uninsured American, there would be less of them filing bankruptcy.
“And the answer is because you’re paying for your own care as well as for the care of some of the uninsured in the community.” We all know this is not the entire story.Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
