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Why Universal Healthcare?

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Why Universal Healthcare?

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2007 has not been a very good year around our home. Two visits to the ER, two hospitalizations, one because of a botched colonoscopy that resulted in a perforated bowel. That also led to a second colonoscopy in one month. One illness, that has gone on now for seven weeks. All of this together has revealed even more loopholes in modern health insurance. Many people have this loophole in their policies and are unaware. The bowl perforation led to an emergency bowel resection. I was in the hospital, I had met my deductible and wasn’t worried about the bills everything should be covered and it was because it was an emergency. However the other surgery was not an emergency. So the hospital was paid and the surgeon was paid, both in full. The anesthesiologist was not paid in full. You see anesthesiologists for the most part do not participate with health insurance companies, at least according to my health insurance company. So while your plan will pay the doctor usual and customary fees, th

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