> ...the Amish are honorable customers. This separates them from insurance companies, who are constantly trying to scam providers however they can. Much of the increase in health care costs is “administrative expenses”, and much of these administrative expenses is hiring an army of lawyers, clerks, and billing professionals to thwart insurance companies’ attempts to cheat their way out of paying. If you are an honorable Amish person and the hospital knows you will pay your bill on time with zero fuss, they can waive all this.
My wife came from a splinter of that group.
I skimmed the article. It is missing the most important cultural part -- Amish even when sick will continue to work and eventually simply die. Culturally they do not try to extend life at any cost.
> If they’re healthier, why is their life expectancy lower? Possibly they are less interested in prolonging life than we are. R&D write:
> Amish people are more willing to stop interventions earlier and resist invasive therapies than the general population because, while they long for healing, they also have a profound respect for God’s will. This means taking modest steps toward healing sick bodies, giving preference to natural remedies, setting common-sense limits, and believing that in the end their bodies are in God’s hands.
>The Amish health care system has an easier job than ours does. It has to take care of people who are generally healthy and less interested in extreme end-of-life care.
"little", "slightly" and "less" is significantly under-emphasizing how gigantic is the gap between what an average ( even average poor ) person living in Lancaster expects in terms of healthcare and an Amish family living around Lancaster expects in term of healthcare.
My wife came from a splinter of that group.
I skimmed the article. It is missing the most important cultural part -- Amish even when sick will continue to work and eventually simply die. Culturally they do not try to extend life at any cost.