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Healthcare: what you don't know will make you sick

I work in the healthcare industry, specifically with insurance company reimbursements. This topic is the main reason I started this website.  Most of us in America have no idea that our health, and therefore our fate, lies in the hands of big insurance corporations. They decide what care you will receive, not your doctor. If your doctor wants to stay in business and get paid for his/her work she/he must conform to what the insurance company dictates. Talk about the individual being blurred out of existence!  This portion of the website will train a watchful eye on the healthcare care industry to keep the reader informed about how your health will suffer in the “good hands” of the insurance corporations.

The insurance companies base your treatment on set standards. If your doctor wants to prescribe a treatment for you, your illness must meet insurance criteria for the insurance company to consider you sick enough to receive the doctor’s prescribed treatment. If the doctor fails to prove that you are “sick enough” he/she won’t get paid. Don’t start thinking that the doctor is at fault if he/she can’t prove your illness to the insurance company.  The insurance company demands proof in the form of tests of your illness. Therefore if you are a person who is as unique as, oh say, an individual you may not qualify for treatment no matter how much the treatment might improve your health or keep you from getting sicker. You’ll just have to wait till your health deteriorates more before you qualify for treatment. The insurance companies view people as though they are all exactly the same; as if we all get sick exactly the same way and at the same rate.

Why? Because it’s big business. Always keep in mind that a business, even an insurance business, is in business to make money. A business only cares about its bottom line and its stock market position. (If you are thinking that this is right and normal and the way it ought to be, you have been brain-washed by the corporatocracy and may therefore be unable to comprehend why having your health attached to the bottom line of a business is a “bad” thing.)  The insurance company doesn’t give a damn about your health.  Their job is to pay as few claims as possible and if they do pay, they pay as slowly as possible so that they can make interest on the money before they release the funds.  The corporatocracy brainwashes us to believe that this is “just good business”, but people are not machines. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" doesn't apply to the human body, yet that is how the insurance companies view our health. It isn't enough to feel sick and not yourself, you have to prove through test that you are infact "broken". As someone once said, "We don't have 'helthcare' in this country, we have 'sickcare'". And we all accept this as normal and right.

We all have our own personal stories about treatments we or our loved ones should have received but did not, or large payments that had to be made out-of-pocket because the insurance company refused to pay.  There are movies and documentaries on this subject, but we the citizens do nothing. We are too afraid of change and the “devil we don’t know” to demand a better healthcare system. I’m not referring to the healthcare people; I’m talking about the overall system with a finger leveled straight at the insurance corporations. Once again our government fails the citizens in favor of support for big business even when our health is at stake. “We spend more than twice per capita as any other country [on healthcare], yet we stand alone among industrialized countries as the only country that does not offer access to healthcare as a right to all of our residents” (Wen, Leana S. “The US Healthcare System: Bad Medicine, Economics.” 18 Sept 2005).

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