Is a healthcare system with “no pay upfront – no surgery” in our future?

What kind of values do you want the people who control our healthcare system to have? Which would you prefer that they value the most – human life or money?  

The article “Health plans lead to more hospital pre-pays” in USA Today makes it clear that a major shift of values is taking place in America today. As you read the article, consider the answers to the following questions:

● Who would want to control the prices?

● Who would want to have limited times for people to enroll and then make it impossible to get insurance during the rest of the year?

● Who would want to make the IRS responsible for collecting premiums?

● Who would want massive amounts of new debt created – and why? More defaults on debts, higher credit scores – higher credit scores higher prices on everything else – more derivatives to add to the more than one quadrillion dollars’ worth that already exist .

● Who do you think would create law that create things like these?

I know certain groups have spent millions to get people to blame the president, but he isn’t the primary beneficiary of the system. If we follow the money, do you think it might possibly lead us to big insurance companies and big banks?

Call a few of your friends and see if that is how they would design our healthcare system? I bet their answers will be “No!” Why? I believe our friends have very different values from the folks who created the mess that exists now.

Have you noticed that all of the focus is on finding ways to pay insurance companies and healthcare providers, who claim their costs are skyrocketing? Don’t you find it interesting that the folks who are supposed to be representing us aren’t focusing on why those costs are sky rocketing? It hasn’t been that many years ago we were being told that our energy costs were skyrocketing because the companies that supplied our local companies kept raising prices. Of course, no one pointed out that the same corporation owned those companies.

Anyway, read the USA Today article and consider the implications of values and their effects on human life -- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/16/hospitals-doctors-toughen-collection-of-bills/19144677/