To the editor: Don’t kill insurance coverage CEOs. Kill the medical insurance coverage “trade” that has weaseled its means between medical doctors and sufferers. This pretend trade is pointless, parasitical and massively dangerous. (“Suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggles, shouts while entering courthouse,” Dec. 10)
Many civilized nations don’t even have personal medical insurance coverage, besides on the margins and primarily for the wealthy. Socialized medication and single-payer programs present much better care at far much less price. My household can personally attest to the prevalence of common programs.
In 2013, whereas on trip in Paris, our teenage daughter complained of ache in her stomach, so we took her to the closest hospital. They examined her and instructed us she wanted an emergency appendectomy, which they scheduled for that night. They saved her for 3 days (in a non-public room, no much less).
After they have been able to launch her, they mentioned apologetically, “Since you aren’t French residents, once you come again in three days to have the stitches eliminated, you have to to satisfy with our monetary officer to rearrange cost.”
That was the primary time anybody talked about cash or insurance coverage. The hospital billed us 6,000 Euros for the surgical procedure and hospitalization. Our New York physician instructed us the invoice right here would have been no less than $35,000. The French have healthcare, not revenue care.
What America wants do is abolish the whole parasitical medical insurance coverage “trade” and exchange it with Medicare for all.
Richard Smith, New York
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To the editor: The latest killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief government is drawing comparisons between our “personal” system and nations which have “common” healthcare. For anybody who thinks their programs are superior, I counsel a five-year keep for the citizen’s expertise.
At first, healthcare shouldn’t be free anyplace. In nations which have common healthcare, the associated fee is paid by everybody by way of taxes. When you assume our taxes are excessive, theirs are greater to pay for all of these “free” providers.
Decrease-income individuals profit essentially the most, the rich don’t care, and the center will get shafted — that’s socialism.
Additionally, it could come as a shock to many who hospitals usually function with a revenue margin of 5%. Most profitable companies function with a lot greater revenue margins, in order that they’re not in it to make fortunes.
Lastly, Luigi Mangione allegedly tossed his future away by killing a person who had nothing to do together with his specific grievance (remedy of a again damage). That’s idiotic. Might or not it’s that easy?
Arthur Saginian, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: If anybody questions the veracity of Mangione’s written statements about America’s costly healthcare system and decrease life expectancy, please assessment knowledge introduced in graphs and written summaries within the Commonwealth Fund’s report, “Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System.”
In america in 2023, healthcare spending as a share of our gross home product was 16.5%, with the 9 different rich nations to which we have been in contrast displaying percentages starting from 11.9% in France to 9.8% in Australia. Life expectancy was greater than 4 years beneath the 10-country common, with the U.S. rating final.
Individuals pay insurance coverage premiums, deductibles, co-insurance and copays. When protection is denied, many people have medical debt and chapter.
Insurance coverage corporations are ripping us off as proven by our well being outcomes not reflecting the prices we pay.
Carol Fodera, La Crescenta
