Why Europeans Don’t Get Huge Medical Bills
Should America just get rid of health insurers?
Americans don’t seem to like insurance companies much, even if they’re happy with their health coverage itself. Several Democratic health-care proposals would end private health insurance entirely, an idea that some Americans seem to applaud, until you tell them that it would entail higher taxes and a government-run system. And then they sometimes, but not always, become less sanguine.
One reason insurance companies get a bad rap.” These occur when insured patients go to a hospital they thought was in-network, but then—sometimes inadvertently—see a doctor who is out-of-network while they’re there. (This is on top of the that many uninsured people receive, no matter what doctor or hospital they go to.)
