Aetna Insurance denies treatment to breast cancer patient

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18. A few years ago I read a report about consumer healthcare costs.

Because your physician's staff must deal withs several different insurance companies and plans, a full 33% of what he/she is paid per visit is to cover staffing costs. Here in Ontario the cost is just 3%, and that is one person filing patient info with the Ministry of Health to ensure the physician is paid.

With pharmaceutical companies, although they claim drug prices are so high because of research and development, that's not true either. At least 75% goes to advertising and promotion. And then you have the outrageous costs for insulin: University of Toronto doctors Banting and Best discovered insulin and how to treat diabetics with it 100 years ago. They patented it and sold it to a U of T lab for $1. And now you have drug companies selling this absolute life-saving drug for hundreds of dollars.

I'm sorry but the US healthcare industry is so totally screwed up. And patients, in turn, are royally screwed. The US government does not exhibit any interest in the care and well-being of its citizens, but only of its corporations. JMHO, of course.