More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

American Thinker ^ | August 7,2014 | Keith R. Jackson

[Hojczyk]

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

[Oberon]

What stops Indian or Thai doctors from botching the job?

Where's the accountability??

Can you sue them for malpractice? What?

Oh, I have no idea. No doubt there are answers to these questions, but I have no idea what they are.

I do know that medical tourism is already a huge and growing business, so presumably these concerns have been addressed to some degree at least.

[gingerbread]

Well, another suggestion would be, if you need an operation, say for a knee replacement, or even open heart surgery, go to India, or maybe the Philippines, where the operation is still a lot cheaper, including the airplane ticket.