Where do you come up with these figures? Have they been fed to you or
are they just off the top of your head?
You did get to the meat of the problem however. We might have great
medical care here in us. But getting it and being able to have access
to it is a totally different story. And that is what we're talking
about.
As for letting the free market work for insurance companies, I'm all
for that. Let's stop requiring insurance for damn near everything.
Let's make it an option. Do you want to buy a house? You don't have to
buy fire insurance. You want to drive a car? You don't have to have
whatever insurance. You want to live a few years more? You don't have
to buy health insurance. But the option could be there if you do.
I agree that the problem lays in prices charged. But I also believe
it's our insurance industry that's created this problem, not the lack
of free market.
How much did you pay to your don last month?
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On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Jeff Morris wrote:
For you to say that the health care in Cuba is better than the
United States may be the dumbest statement I have ever heard.
Given the choice...you mean to tell me that you would fly to Cuba to
have open heart surgery instead of having it done by a specialist
here?
You answered no...I'm certain...which means then, that health care
is NOT better in Cuba.
You are free to move to Cuba, collect your $3 a month wage and enjoy
that health care.
Do not confuse health care costs with health care. There is a world
of difference between the two. Socializing our health care system
will not only hurt our economy...but it will ruin medicine in the
United States.
You can do some things to fix the cost...without changing the entire
system.
85% of the population is perfectly happy with their health care. So
you want to wreck what the 85% enjoy so that the 15% get free health
care coverage? That's like having 85% of a restaraunt's clientele
perfectly happy with the food at a given restaurant...but in order
to please the other 15%, we bulldoze the building. Makes just as
much sense as bulldozing the current system to satisfy the few, and
to satisfy the socialists (Obama, Reid, Pelosi) who want more and
more government control over every facet of our lives.
Expand medicare to cover those who legitimately cannot afford health
care. I'm not talking about those who whine that they can't afford
insurance but have two cars, a house they can't afford, cell phones,
top tier cable tv and other luxuries.
How about if we actually let the free market work for insurance like
it does almost every other industry. There are only so many
companies I am allowed to buy insurance from. Those are federal
regulations and state regulations, and it benefits the insurance
company ensuring them of a monopoly of sorts. Let me buy my health
insurance anywhere I want - provided they meet federal regulations.
That will increase choice of product dramatically, which will
increase competition, which will drive down prices and improve
service. The free markets have NOT been tried with insurance.
Loser pays as part of Tort reform. If you file a bogus lawsuit and
lose, you pay the cost of the legal fees for the doctor or
pharmacuetical company you just sued. That would just about put an
end to the frivelous and phony lawsuits. Doctors and drug companies
and anybody else who can be sued pay huge, huge fees for
insurance...which of course if passed along to the consumer. Won't
happen though. Why? The majority of congress are lawyers.
No...there are plenty of things that can be done besides turning us
into a socialist country.
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