Comments on: Premium Info: Prescription Data & Health Coverage http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/08/premium-info-prescription-data-health-coverage/ News, Comment and Conversation Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: harpy http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/08/premium-info-prescription-data-health-coverage/#comment-368682 harpy Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:01:47 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14954#comment-368682 Why anyone ever thought for-profit healthcare was a good idea is beyond me. Why anyone ever thought for-profit healthcare was a good idea is beyond me.

]]> By: Bob Freeman http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/08/premium-info-prescription-data-health-coverage/#comment-368597 Bob Freeman Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:11:19 +0000 http://www.pharmalot.com/?p=14954#comment-368597 This is another instance of a troubling trend--either eliminating people at risk from coverage or increasing the costs of coverage for people at high risk. It is, in my opinion, another justification for universal, national health insurance because the private market has both failed to meet societal goals and has an operating model based on 1) denial of reimbursement or 2) delaying payment to both providers and the insured. Their lobby is generally regarded as more effective than PhRMA's so I doubt any meaningful reform will occur until the system collapses on itself. Anecdotes about Canadians coming to the US for treatment are not arguments against universal systems. They are aberrations. This is another instance of a troubling trend–either eliminating people at risk from coverage or increasing the costs of coverage for people at high risk. It is, in my opinion, another justification for universal, national health insurance because the private market has both failed to meet societal goals and has an operating model based on 1) denial of reimbursement or 2) delaying payment to both providers and the insured. Their lobby is generally regarded as more effective than PhRMA’s so I doubt any meaningful reform will occur until the system collapses on itself.

Anecdotes about Canadians coming to the US for treatment are not arguments against universal systems. They are aberrations.

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