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Originally Posted by Eric5273
Obviously you can blame whoever you want.
But I was asking what changes should be made to the health care system so that this sort of thing would never happen?
BTW, I'm pretty sure there is no current law requiring a hospital to perform an $250,000 operation on someone for free even if they are dying and the operation will save their life.
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And there is no law requiring a HMO to do a surgery they deem experimental, regardless of success rate.
I guess for all the surgeries the HMO covered that saved lives, and one died, those odds aren't that bad.
Should check out why Scottie's husband had to wait 12 months to have a knee operation that is routine in the US....( http://www.xoutpost.com/410840-post13.html)
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