Comments on: Greenwich Hospital Emergency Room – THANK YOU!! http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/2009/07/29/greenwich-hospital-emergency-room-thank-you/ Advice on Financial Markets Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jeff http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/2009/07/29/greenwich-hospital-emergency-room-thank-you/#comment-6 Jeff Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:08:53 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/?p=19#comment-6 Glad to hear your son received great care at Greenwich Hospital. But I'm not sure I understand why you think that would change if the government got more involved in health care. The care your son received was exemplary because that's the way Greenwich Hospital is run. Any government involvement in our currently catastrophic health care system would not affect the way people at Greenwich Hospital do their job. Glad to hear your son received great care at Greenwich Hospital. But I’m not sure I understand why you think that would change if the government got more involved in health care.
The care your son received was exemplary because that’s the way Greenwich Hospital is run. Any government involvement in our currently catastrophic health care system would not affect the way people at Greenwich Hospital do their job.

]]> By: Sean http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/2009/07/29/greenwich-hospital-emergency-room-thank-you/#comment-5 Sean Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:39:50 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/?p=19#comment-5 How much? How much were you charged? Not just how much did you have to pay out of pocket, but how much was the total bill? And just curious, but aren't Medicare patients also seen at that same hospital? Don't they receive the same courteous treatment? If so, if the hospital gives prompt and courteous treatment to patients on government health insurance just as they do patients on private health insurance, what is the problem? In this health care reform, no one is talking about taking over Greenwich Hospital, but simply reforming health insurance. Given that nearly two-thirds of all people filing personal bankruptcies in this country are forced to because of overwhelming health care-related expenses and debt, wouldn't it make sense to eliminate that enormous waste that is the overhead going to the mainly unproductive middle man- the for-profit insurance companies? Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to pass through, oh say 98 cents of every health care dollar to doctors and hospitals and producers of medical devices, as Medicare does now, rather than having the non-productive private health insurance companies retain 31 cents of every dollar of insurance premiums that they handle as they do now? So what was the bill for your son's earache treatment at Greenwich Hospital? I'm curious. How much? How much were you charged? Not just how much did you have to pay out of pocket, but how much was the total bill?

And just curious, but aren’t Medicare patients also seen at that same hospital? Don’t they receive the same courteous treatment? If so, if the hospital gives prompt and courteous treatment to patients on government health insurance just as they do patients on private health insurance, what is the problem?

In this health care reform, no one is talking about taking over Greenwich Hospital, but simply reforming health insurance. Given that nearly two-thirds of all people filing personal bankruptcies in this country are forced to because of overwhelming health care-related expenses and debt, wouldn’t it make sense to eliminate that enormous waste that is the overhead going to the mainly unproductive middle man- the for-profit insurance companies? Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to pass through, oh say 98 cents of every health care dollar to doctors and hospitals and producers of medical devices, as Medicare does now, rather than having the non-productive private health insurance companies retain 31 cents of every dollar of insurance premiums that they handle as they do now?

So what was the bill for your son’s earache treatment at Greenwich Hospital? I’m curious.

]]> By: Townie http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/2009/07/29/greenwich-hospital-emergency-room-thank-you/#comment-4 Townie Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:06:33 +0000 http://blog.ctnews.com/chadwick/?p=19#comment-4 Very nice postive article. Hope your son makes a swift, complete recovery. Very nice postive article. Hope your son makes a swift, complete recovery.

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