How Can You Get the Best Bargains on Health-Care?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February 25, 2013 10:36am CST
The only way I can see: choosing the right health-insurance.
This came up when Jon Stewart had a writer from TIME magazine visit The Daily Show. The writer had written a long article about 'how health-costs are killing us,' basically stating that health-costs are so high because 'they can be---it's not like they're going to carry your stretcher to the E.R.-frontdesk so you can ask about the price there & decide to try the E.R. down the street to see if they have a better price 
And he also said something about how it's not the doctors & nurses that make the big money in the little emergency-care scheme, it's the hospital owners & investors!
Now I don't know much about how Insurance-Money works (nor do I care to), but I've heard there's an insurance program that goes out and finds the best deal & only pays for that no matter where you get your emergency-care.
(Sure, you pay the same-amount to the insurance-company; but it's the principle of the thing 
or not)
And he also said something about how it's not the doctors & nurses that make the big money in the little emergency-care scheme, it's the hospital owners & investors!
Now I don't know much about how Insurance-Money works (nor do I care to), but I've heard there's an insurance program that goes out and finds the best deal & only pays for that no matter where you get your emergency-care.
(Sure, you pay the same-amount to the insurance-company; but it's the principle of the thing or not)3 responses
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
26 Feb 13
Hmm. Do medical tourism. Like here in our country, everything about healthcare is like 50x cheaper than there. I got hospitalized 4 years ago because of a ruptured appendix and i only spent around 8,000 pesos and thats like around 200 $ plus its a tropical country, dont you want to go to paradise for once? 
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
26 Feb 13
Dang! I once called 911 coz I had a REALLY bad stomach-ache (some little thing like I hadn't eaten/drunk enough water)---they charged my insurance like $1000 to $1800 total for the ambulance-ride and the 'water' they had shot into me (apparently like 40,000 to 72,000 pesos).
How can I be where you are, quickly!?!??
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
26 Mar 13
OMG! Thats like the cost of being in the ICU for days.
Although, I'm kind of cheating because i have good connections with medical professionals and hospital owners haha. And i have a so called "philhealth" the last time i got hospitalized because i had a bad infection, i was in the hospital for 2 days but i only paid 100 pesos, thats like 2$ lol
I know a friend who loved flying so much, he got tickets for free, he goes on over 30 flights a year. What he does is, he books a ticket, and then you know those instances when another passenger needs to be on that flight ASAP, he is the first person to give up his flight and gets another flight for free. He does that a lot. Its kind of cool. He doesn't even have a high paying job, he just loved flying so much.
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
25 Feb 13
i think that they should get rid of all of them and do what canada has done in canada you get free medical and dental you never pay for it as long as you was born there now i can understand if you travel there and have to pay but it should be a a set cost not what ever they feel like charging you
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
25 Feb 13
I would echo the free-market crowd here and yelp that 'the health-care comes outta your taxes there,' making Canada a bit more "communist," but--so long as you tell the 'communist'-way of healthcare "This far shalt thou come, and no further"--that MIGHT work in America's economy.
Somebody tell President Obama! Or else tell me why that system WOULDN'T work in America!
@0dickshouse0 (79)
• Taiwan
25 Feb 13
I think there is no good bargain on health-care, because health insurance and hospitals are set for making money not for charity! I think making money isn't wrong as long as they have moderate charge, because they really provide something that we need and make some profit from this act.
Since I was a part of members making money from this, I've working on how to make everyone "become a doctor." It doesn't mean that everyone will be excellently skillful, but the will of helping others when they need some simple medical help. Only when Health-Care no longer an exclusive career or "products," the greatest bargains will appear.
