Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Poll: Most blame insurers, government for health costs - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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About a third blamed insurers for the problem in the online poll conductee by theSilicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal betwee June 30 and July 7. "Insurerw are the biggest culprit or wrote reader GlennVon Straatum. "Ik was involved with a billint industry pilot that showed complete transparency of costsx in one system and hada bill/view for everyonre (patients, doctors, hospital, pharmacy, etc). It was loved by patients for clarity of servicee provided withactual costs, doctors for easiet billing, hospitals for inventory/service management, but the concepft was never executed because of the insurancwe companies.
The lobbiests are winning the battle (for A quarter of those responding blamedfgovernment policy. "If you want to blame lobbyists, don't forget the lawyers who have lobbiex successfully year after year to blocktort reform. Lawyers-gone-wild have infectexd and poisoned every aspecrt of healthcare — providers, pharma, device manufacturers, insurers alike suffee from their scourge," wrote David Coats.
"And our legislatorsx who take money from them are more interestecd in lining their campaign war chests with contributions from the ABA and theie members than looking out for their Healthcare providers, the medical device and drug industru were blamed by about 14 percent. Abouf 10 percent said patients aremost "Is this really serious?!" askedc Christian Garcia. "Yes, I get that greed is a big issud here. However, it's ultimately the patient (us), that's to blame. We live but yet are less healthh today. We exercise less, eat more, stresds more, work more, around familuy and friends less...and yet we blame corporations for usbeinb unhealthy?
" "I wish I had more than one selection," wrotew David Laskin. "In addition to the medical device, pharmaceutical industry and health-care providers share equally in greed. I wish I could'vd put that more cleverly — unfortunatelyt it hurts too much."

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