Editor,
Any number of Americans are slaving long hours at multiple jobs that make them sick from tedious stress and even give them heart attacks, ironically so they can keep up with their health insurance premiums.
But these are going up. Is this not because the prices presented on health “exchange” websites allowing people to pick and choose results not in competition among insurance companies, but homogenization of pricing structures, once each gets to know what others are charging? Also, there is increasing consolidation through mergers and acquisitions among them, resulting in monopolistic pricing.
The squeeze on patients’ hearts really happens when they realize they are no longer allowed to declare bankruptcy for only medical bills, which often result from all those procedures and special medicines that these profiteering intermediaries deny, sometimes defying even their referring and prescribing doctors.
If you think the situation is going to change, look at the unconscionably little time spent in the first Democratic presidential debate on healthcare reform.
What’s ahead? Such dangerous profiteering becoming the single biggest cause of early death?
Sincerely,
Arun Anand Ahuja
UNM student
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