Health Insurance Companies’ Bureaucracy
Regarding Health Care
Temporary note: this web page was inappropriately titled as “For-Profit Bureaucracy”. The United states has some health insurance companies that are supposedly “non-profit” but their contribution to the bureaucracy are just as much or more than the for-profit companies. Website pages will be updated for the new title: “Health Insurance Companies Bureaucracy.”
Examples of items that are part of the complexities of U.S. health care financing.
- Premiums
- Co-pays
- Deductibles
- Percentage not covered by insurance
- Health care bills after the lifetime limit is exceeded
- Added costs for those burdened by medical expenses:
- Credit card interest
- Interest on loans to pay medical debts
- Results from dealing with health insurance companies
- Large billing departments of hospitals and other medical facilities
- Large billing staffs at physicians’ offices
- Businesses of all sizes needing to decide what health insurance company and plan to use for the next year
- Over 1300 health insurance companies, of which each of them are working to not only maintain and/or expand their operations, but also maintain and increase their profits; these companies are the reasons for most or all of the previous examples listed above