Health Insurance Rates Are Going Up

You won't like the answer to that particular question, but the facts are the facts. Health insurance rates are going up because of us. That's right, we are the authors of our own misfortune if you will. Very simply we do not look after ourselves and by doing that, we send the price of health care rates sky high.

We drink, we smoke, we're aging (ok we can't do anything about that) and we don't work out. Our obesity rate as a nation is abominable. The health care costs of treating alcoholics, smokers and obese patients are phenomenal.

It's not just that we don't take care of ourselves either. The other factors that drive up the cost of health insurance rates are medical inflation and medical errors. Now you might be thinking medical errors must cost a bundle. Actually, they are declining – a good thing by any standards.

The biggest area of problems is medical inflation. Just try to find out what a surgery will cost you, and good luck on that. Let's say for instance you needed an appendectomy. You want to know what that will cost. No hospital or doctors office will give you that figure because they have no idea what they will bill you for until they bill you.

Surgery has almost become an a la carte menu where the doctor (and hospital) picks and chooses what you will get billed for. From the cost of dispensing pills to the cost of the pill itself and from the cost of the extra pillow you wanted to the extra dressing required for your incision. You get billed for each item. No wonder bills are so high and they can't tell you what it costs.

However, having said that, it's interesting that doctor's offices are able to tell the biggest insurance companies paying the freight how much it costs to stay in hospital per day and what a certain surgery costs. See what's happening here? The doctor gets paid a rate by the insurance company and then bills you extra for other things. Nasty, but it works.

If you want lower health care rates, start taking care of yourself. Don't smoke, don't drink to excess and get moving and work out. The healthier you are, the less expensive your health care costs tend to be.

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Clelland Green is with Benepath.com, a leader in providing health insurance quotes. Benepath provides individuals, families, and businesses with health insurance rates in just a few mouse clicks. To learn more, visit Benepath.com.

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