If a hospital room costs $680 a night without any extras (which are inevitable, and outrageously priced), and is less comfortable than a Motel 6, we shouldn’t be asking how to stick someone else with the bill, but rather why the bill is so high in the first place.
When I have spent time in the hospital, on my own behalf and that of others, I have been struck by the long waits and shoddy service on offer.
No matter how we spread out payment for $1,000 tests and $100,000 operations, we can’t afford them.
My health care proposal is simple: There is no health insurance and people have to pay their own bills, cash at the door.
I’ll bet we’d see $100 a night hospital stays shortly after that.
Has anyone noticed that the cost of Lazik surgery has halved in the last few years? That’s because it’s voluntary and funded by your own money instead of insurance.
If an average person can’t afford average prices for average healthcare, then making the government pay for it is going to hurt him, not help, because of the cost and overhead of making and monitoring the payments.
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