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Why medical bills are killing us

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spiderx2/23/2013 7:50:28 pm PST

The American health care system is pretty damn evil. I know evil is a strong word but I don’t know what other word to use here. Deranged? Psychopathic?

I have family in the UK and they are amazed that we put up with our health care system here. They can’t understand the mind set of the right wing in America. Most of my family in the UK are conservatives and even they support the NHS. The NHS isn’t a perfect system (right now there is a horrendous scandal with poor care resulting in deaths in Staffordshire) but neither is it s a system that is designed to suck as much money out of the sick as ours is.

It’s shocking that the hospital wouldn’t begin cancer treatment until they received payment in full. And even more shocking that the head administrator at this hospital receives a salary close to $2 million dollars. That kind of position in other western countries would never be paid that kind of money. I think the highest paid NHS manager makes 280k (in pounds) and that was a huge controversy in the UK.

Compare that to CEO’s of American health insurance companies where the average salary is several million.