Omelet wrote:
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>>> Because the co-pay is $100.00, not to mention the ER physicians separate
>>> fee.
>> It is a shame that you don't have government health insurance like we
>> have in Canada. Everyone is eligible regardless of pre-exisitng
>> conditions.
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> I suspect it's coming. My main concern with Socialized health care is
> what it's going to cost us.
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> Nothing is free. Only time will tell.

Most of us know that it is not free. There is less spent per capita on
health care in the US and Canadians live a little longer.


> That is a big deal. Since I do the nightly audits, I know what it
> costs. 15 days in the ICU can cost in excess of 100K.

My father spent the last month of his life in the. His supplemental
health insurance covered the extra for a semi private room, which is
only about $15 per day extra. When he died we got no bill. About 5 years
ago my mother spent two weeks in hospital, then last year she was taken
by ambulance to the ER and was admitted, spending five days in the
hospital before she died. The cost twas zero. It was all covered by OHIP.

The downside is that we lose doctors to the US because it is much more
profitable to practice down there.


> IMHO tho', the ideal solution would be to somehow bring down that cost.
> A lot of the cost is compliance and regulation. Being a section
> supervisor in the lab, I have a LOT of experience with compliance
> regulations!

Good luck. Health care is a very lucrative business in the US, and they
have well funded lobby that tries hard to convince the government that
government run day care reeks of communism and will be the ruin of the
health care industry. It will certainly have an impact on the money to
be made by private hospitals and health insurance business.

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