Health insurance today is a mess – health care remains a sacred trust between doctors and patients quoting : Fox News

Remember, though health insurance is falsely promoted and sold to you as though it is actual health care, it still relies on a business model which makes a greater profit by turning down your requests rather than approving them. No matter what the outcome of the current health insurance debate, no matter how shortsighted the regulations and requirements of health care delivery may remain, we physicians must continue to remember our commitment as healers. But at least the American Health Care Act, no matter what its final iteration, will no longer force you to purchase an insurance product that doesn't guarantee delivery of the very care it promises you. Tuchman has sought to repay it over 65 years in medical practice by transferring a father's uncompromised love into a deep commitment to his patients. His oath states, in part, "The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures.




People shopping for insurance in the individual market all sit on a spectrum from healthy to sick. But the Senate bill disrupts this. If this series of events occurs the individual marketplace will end up less stable and robust than it was even before the ACA. And somewhere along the way, offering individual insurance plans at all becomes a losing game for insurance companies, and they start to leave the marketplace. [What the Senate bill changes about Obamacare]But those two provisions, taken together, are likely to send the individual marketplace into a "death spiral," ending with only the sickest people insured, sky-high premiums, and insurers exiting the individual market, according to experts across the political spectrum.

Why single-payer health insurance means better patient care

Why single-payer health insurance means better patient careDemonstrators in Chicago protest proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act by GOP senators on Thursday. "The results of the survey are very significant," said Dr. Claudia Fagan, national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Care Program, which has led the fight for single-payer universal health care. OPINIONIn addition to supporting single-payer national health care, the doctors also expressed support for the Affordable Care Act, with 62 percent saying they had a "generally favorable" opinion of Obamacare. Two out of three doctors, 67 percent, said they had a "generally favorable" view of a single-payer financing health care system. And in many cases no one — including your doctor — knows who is actually making the health care decisions at the insurance companies.


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