http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2008/03/21/credit-checks-on-uninsured-patients/ Research and discussion of the Colorado health insurance industry and the healthcare crisis in America. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:19:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2008/03/21/credit-checks-on-uninsured-patients/comment-page-1/#comment-9819 AJ Robidoux Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:02:29 +0000 http://www.healthinsurancecolorado.net/blog1/2008/03/21/credit-checks-on-uninsured-patients/#comment-9819 No, hospitals should not be able to access credit reports. No, my physician should not use my social security number as my ID to get test results (I changed doctors by the way). The law should put hospitals in a tax tier system. We should return to the teaching hospital level with a nonprofit status. Drug companies should automaticallly be made to donate drugs to these level hospitals for research benefits. This same level hospital should be able to accept tax dollars for research as well as donatios from individuals. They could of course by university connected. The other hospitals should have different classifications - just like other nonprofits have different classifications - determining their level of care, ability, research and facilities. For instant, a rural hospital can not do certain types of procedures because they often are not up to the latest medical procedures - that is a different classification. They need to be TIERED with a regional hospital in an urban area that is certified. For example, in the rual hospital a breast biospy cost $8,000; the same surgery in a major city hospital only 200 miles away cost $1,500. The recup time was less, the medication was less, the procedure less invasive. TIER means - that level of hospital can not do this procedure. And, the ratings need to be made public. Inconvient for the consumer? Why in an urban area should three hospitals within a four block radius of one another all do the same procedures. Rather, one do heart, the other kidney, one cancer, etc. Focus the money, research, and talent. Hm....and the laws should be the same for all. A Catholic based hospital will not do any procedures related to birth control yet it will take a Jewish person's money for cancer and provide a rabbi and provide a Baptist with a chaplain and take faith based money from the government. Hm, how about in the TIER classifications it states: religious based, not certified for any reproductive procedures because it chooses on religious tenets to deny equal access to all individuals, etc. Ok, so an institution can refuse. However, then it does not get the federal money. Sound complicated? Only at first setting up the TIER system. A physician I know says this will create private hospitals for the wealthy. Already have them.....money will always buy whatever anyone wants. Move on. The wealthy are not the ones abusing the health care system. No, hospitals should not be able to access credit reports. No, my physician should not use my social security number as my ID to get test results (I changed doctors by the way). The law should put hospitals in a tax tier system. We should return to the teaching hospital level with a nonprofit status. Drug companies should automaticallly be made to donate drugs to these level hospitals for research benefits. This same level hospital should be able to accept tax dollars for research as well as donatios from individuals. They could of course by university connected. The other hospitals should have different classifications – just like other nonprofits have different classifications – determining their level of care, ability, research and facilities. For instant, a rural hospital can not do certain types of procedures because they often are not up to the latest medical procedures – that is a different classification. They need to be TIERED with a regional hospital in an urban area that is certified. For example, in the rual hospital a breast biospy cost $8,000; the same surgery in a major city hospital only 200 miles away cost $1,500. The recup time was less, the medication was less, the procedure less invasive. TIER means – that level of hospital can not do this procedure. And, the ratings need to be made public. Inconvient for the consumer? Why in an urban area should three hospitals within a four block radius of one another all do the same procedures. Rather, one do heart, the other kidney, one cancer, etc. Focus the money, research, and talent. Hm….and the laws should be the same for all. A Catholic based hospital will not do any procedures related to birth control yet it will take a Jewish person’s money for cancer and provide a rabbi and provide a Baptist with a chaplain and take faith based money from the government. Hm, how about in the TIER classifications it states: religious based, not certified for any reproductive procedures because it chooses on religious tenets to deny equal access to all individuals, etc. Ok, so an institution can refuse. However, then it does not get the federal money. Sound complicated? Only at first setting up the TIER system. A physician I know says this will create private hospitals for the wealthy. Already have them…..money will always buy whatever anyone wants. Move on. The wealthy are not the ones abusing the health care system.

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