How the Healthcare System Makes Trillions, and an Alternative to Commercial Insurance

Andy Schoonover from ​JoinCrowdHealth.com explains that insurance costs are inflated with bureaucratic costs like brokers’ fees, hospital fees and health plan fees that are “through the roof.” Only 8% of healthcare costs go to doctors, or about $325 billion out of the $4.5 trillion total that is spent on healthcare. 200,000 families in the US go bankrupt every year due to health expenses, even though they have health insurance! Insurance companies can almost arbitrarily deny claims and many plans have very high deductibles. In Texas, one out of five, or 20% of claims are denied and deemed “medically unnecessary.” California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Washington, DC have compulsory health insurance, and people pay a penalty if they don’t have insurance.

Many primary care doctors hate health insurance because insurance companies will only pay a small fee for a doctor’s visit and forcing the doctor to only spend a few minutes with each patient in order to make money; the average meeting time with a doctor is 6 minutes. Some doctors are changing over to a cash only system to spend more time with a patient. Ambulatory outpatient surgery centers are also becoming popular.

Schoonover explains an alternative system that has a reduced monthly premium and funding for large bills comes from group members. He reveals how enormous hospital bills can be reduced and gave an example of how a member received a hospital bill for over $400,000 that was reduced down to $70,000.

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https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/how-the-healthcare-system-makes-trillions-and-an-alternative-to-high-insurance-rates/

Cop Confronts Driverless Waymo Car that ‘Freaked Out’ and Drove into Oncoming Traffic

A Phoenix cop recently pulled over a white Jaguar SUV for an alleged slew of reckless actions near a construction zone — and the car turned out to be a driverless Waymo taxi with no one inside. The vehicle reportedly drove into opposing traffic, ran a red light, and “freaked out” after entering a construction area that had “inconsistent signage”. The car was owned by Waymo, which is run by Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco are the few cities that allow the unmanned vehicles.

In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was investigating Waymo’s robotaxis for crashes and traffic law violations after a video went viral showing the cars driving in opposing traffic. There were 22 incidents in which Waymo’s robotaxis were “the sole vehicle operated during a collision” or “exhibited driving behavior that potentially violated traffic safety laws.”

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https://needtoknow.news/2024/07/cop-confronts-driverless-waymo-car-that-freaked-out-and-drove-into-oncoming-traffic/