LMFAO, talk about sentencing people to DEATH! END Medicaid End Medicare End charitable hospitals
This guy is crazy! On Aug 6, 3:41 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's Make Health Care Inexpensive Againby Harry BrowneMay 2, 2002 > > The politicians are pushing to raise the cost of your health insurance again. > Of course, that's not how they describe what they're doing. They claim to be > exercising compassion when they propose to force insurance companies to > include mental illness in every health-insurance policy. > Politicians love to posture as friends of particular groupswomen, children, > and people suffering from a particular diseaseby forcing insurance companies > to cover some medical procedure that's important to a target audience. But > every time the government (state or federal) forces insurers to include > another benefit in your policy, your premium has to go up. > So it isn't surprising that over three decades the cost of health insurance > has risen spectacularly.Do You Need It? > > Depending on the state you live in, your health insurance may be priced to > include mandatory coverage of chiropractors, acupuncture, naturopathy, > marriage counseling, abortions, drug abuse, alcoholism, treatments to stop > smoking, cosmetic surgery, weight loss, wigs and other hairpieces, Christian > Science practitioners, and dozens of other possibilities. > I have nothing against any of these treatments. But it makes no sense for the > government to force you to pay for such coverage if you'd prefer a cheaper > policy. Just as when you buy a computer or a cell phone, you should be able > to select and pay for only the featuresyouneed and wantnot what the > politicians think you need. > As the politicians keep pushing up the cost, every medical interest group > suffers. So most of them go to Washington (or the state capitol) to lobby the > politicians to provide relief by forcing insurers to add their favored > treatment to the mandatory coveragepushing the price up further.Losing Health > Insurance > > It may be hard to believe, but back in the 1950s health insurance cost just a > few dollars a month for most peopleand it was available to virtually > everyone, including people with pre-existing conditions. > The percentage of people covered grew steadily from the 1940s. And by the > early 1970s, almost all Americans were covered by some form of insurance. > Then the politicians went to work to load up policies with mandatory coverage > of all sorts of conditions that may be of no use to you. More and more people > decided that insurance had become too expensive and decided to risk being > uninsured. By the 1990s coverage had dropped to under 70% of Americans. > > In addition, many employers decided health coverage was too expensive. In > 1980 fully 97% of the companies with 100 or more employees provided medical > coverage. By 1995, only 77% were doing so. > The growing number of uninsured people gives politicians more ammunition for > more programs to force more costs onto insurance companies, and to push the > price of insurance still higher.How HMOs Became So Powerful > > The cost of insurance is only one area where the politicians have ruined our > health-care system. > You may have noticed that they're also pushing for a "Patients' Bill of > Rights"supposedly to give patients certain privileges in dealing with health > maintenance organizations (HMOs). > No one is pushing for a "Bill of Rights" to protect patients against > doctorsor against druggists, supermarkets, computer stores, or interior > decorators. So how did HMOs become so powerful and dictatorial that their > customers need protection? > Nearly 30 years ago Congress passed the HMO Act of 1973which subsidized HMOs > and gave them a preferred position among employers. The Act was finally > repealed in 1995, but by that time HMOs had become thoroughly entrenched as > the centerpiece of employer-sponsored health programs. > Once again, the politicians are seizing the opportunity to save us from their > own handiwork.The Solution > > The solution to all today's medical problems is toget government out of > health care. > At a minimum we need to:End Medicare, so that seniors and everyone else can > have low-cost health care again, as well as access to all treatments and > tests a doctor thinks advisable.End Medicaid, to stop the senseless waste of > money by corrupt state medical agencies.End the federal regulation that has > driven so many charity hospitals and free clinics out of business.Repeal all > the state and federal laws that tell insurance companies what benefits to > include in their policies.Make all medical expenses deductible on your income > tax return, so your employer can raise your salary instead of providing > insurance coverageletting you choose the health care system most appropriate > for you, deducting the cost directly from your income tax. > These are the kinds of solutions that show real compassion for the sick and > the vulnerable. > And that's why no politician is proposing them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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