“What insurance has clearly done is created an entire industry that is partly private and partly public (government backed), that has insinuated itself between one of the most intimate relationships relative strangers can enter into: between careseekers and caregivers.”

As a result, it has compromised the right to choose your own doctor; lessened the assurance that your medical problem will be covered even partially, if at all; interfered with the amount and type of treatment you should receive; and sent you home (or back into the same nursing home situation) sooner than reasonable care would dictate.

AND increased the costs of medical care to a crisis point: insurance dictates while government regulates, and the patient is squeezed out of both care and money whether he has insurance or not. Medicare and insurance companies are covering less and less, and “care” is increasingly assigned to drugs for every symptom and calling it “treatment.” (Most drugs do not treat the problem itself, instead they treat a symptom which temporarily relieves the most obvious discomfort.) Thus the pharmaceutical companies are cashing in as well, and turning out drugs like puppy mills turn out pups.