Single Payer or CSM?

[Joanne98]

The medical-industrial complex has become a sump of insurance "products" that essentially suck up peoples' money, in return for which they deny the majority of us decent medical coverage, strongarm our physicians into NOT treating us, and refuse to pay for things that we actually need.

Why don't we do for these charming leeches what CSAs are doing for Big Agribiz all across the country, and cut them out of the loop? After all, it's OUR MONEY, dammit.

If 70% of GPs and pediatricians are FOR single-payer medicine, as are at least 40% of the public maybe some percentage of them might be up for the following idea.

Why not Community Supported Medicine?

People can subscribe to a medical group, making payments that are less than the cost of an insurance payment every month, and when there's an illness or a medical problem, they have immediate access to treatment.

The medical group can use part of the subscription moneys to create a group plan for the entire "CSM" that covers cases of dire emergency, expensive treatments, or hospital stays, and can also work with local pharmacists, herbalists, and health food stores to create plans around generic meds and complementary treatments for most common illnesses.

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Single-Payer-or-CSM-by-Jennifer-Hathaway-090513-223.html

This is actually a pretty good idea but we'll never talk about it becuase the blood sucking insurance companies won't allow it.