In all fairness, as I sit wasting my time because it’s snowing outside....

Jog and Lost Artist have recently had some nice dialogue,
Maybe if folks just started explaining their beliefs and position instead of calling the opposition stupid, etc, we ALL might possibly benefit?

HMO's were designed to limit the ever rising  costs of healthcare that neither government or businesses wanted to pay.  Rather than having people say the government is denying medical care to Grandma (a Republican war cry for a decade), of having companies face bankruptcy  (corporate America shirks it duty was the Democratic war cry) they decided to woo people with the option of lower cost programs with some limits on access etc.

The whole layer of people who code encounters, and then another layer of people wo decode the same..well they are to some degree replacing low level insurance company staff who did similar jobs before the HMO's.

I have mentioned that since the 60's, the doctor office staff of 1 receptionist, 1 nurse and 1 doctor for primary care has disappeared.
But again, we demand so much more.  The shift has started where primary care doc's monitor and help guide a patient through an ever more complex medical system, and the recent advent of Urgent care centers for triage unless an emergency room (so much more expensive)
is obviously needed.  
But if you have pain in the chest it now costs thousands for xrays and ekg.s (as well as blood tests) to rule out heart attack and give you some Gavicon for your heartburn.

I think this speak much volume: We want everything possible done and yet, we do not want to pay for it.

I can't help extend that reasoning further along to another life riddle.....

I demand respect.

Perhaps folks just don't see the difference with a square peg, and a round hole?

Thanks Trippah, you always give me food for thought  

Points you people can not and will not address.

It's a FORUM
Make your Points