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Insurance is always misrepresented in this debate, as foxfyre correctly pointed out.
If you want a system that works, the word insurance should not be a part of the discussion.
I don't have a problem with insurance being a part of this discussion as long as it is a regulated free market system. Regulated ONLY to the extent of keeping us from doing economic, environmental, or physical harm to each other with impunity.
But the question has to begin with who is responsible for my healthcare. Me? Or you? Or Avg-Joe? Or everybody else?
If that isn't the first question on the list to be answered before all others, we won't get anywhere in any discussion.
We really didn't need a 2,000 page bill to promote competition.Just allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines.
50 years ago, healthcare was affordable for most Americans. If you went to the doctor you paid out of pocket the $5 to $10 fee plus whatever x-ray or shot or other treatment that you received just as we paid out of pocket for home repairs, auto repairs, getting the television or lawn mower fixed. Insurance didn't kick in until you had exhausted a fairly high deductible. A semi-private hospital room was affordable for most and hospitals worked out a monthly pay plan for those who didn't have insurance or the money for their deductibles.
And then the government got involved.
Almost from Day One costs were no longer market driven and began escalating at an unprecedented rate that has accelerated as the years pass. And now we have unaffordable healthcare costs for most Americans and just as high a percentage of uninsured people as we had before. Except now the uninsured people aren't supposed to work out payment plans with healthcare providers. They look to the rest of us to pay their bills.
It is so simple people. Get government out of the healthcare business altogether except for what regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies and unfair trade practices and let the market work. Insurance companies, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies cannot stay in business without customers. Take away their biggest customer, the U.S government with its deep pockets, and they all will be forced to find ways to make their products affordable so the rest of us can buy them. Voila!!! Affordable healthcare again.
50 years ago insurance companies wanted nothing to do with the elderly because of all those pesky claims they file, so Medicare was invented.
Sending our 'health-care dollars' to private bureaucracies when we're young and working and then sending our medical bills to the tax payers when we're old seems stupid to me.
We really didn't need a 2,000 page bill to promote competition.Just allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines.
You DO realize that it's the STATES preventing people from doing that, right?
I point this out simple to remind you STATES RIGHTERS than the states are no less likely to screw the people over than the FEDs.
50 years ago, healthcare was affordable for most Americans. If you went to the doctor you paid out of pocket the $5 to $10 fee plus whatever x-ray or shot or other treatment that you received just as we paid out of pocket for home repairs, auto repairs, getting the television or lawn mower fixed. Insurance didn't kick in until you had exhausted a fairly high deductible. A semi-private hospital room was affordable for most and hospitals worked out a monthly pay plan for those who didn't have insurance or the money for their deductibles.
And then the government got involved.
Almost from Day One costs were no longer market driven and began escalating at an unprecedented rate that has accelerated as the years pass. And now we have unaffordable healthcare costs for most Americans and just as high a percentage of uninsured people as we had before. Except now the uninsured people aren't supposed to work out payment plans with healthcare providers. They look to the rest of us to pay their bills.
It is so simple people. Get government out of the healthcare business altogether except for what regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies and unfair trade practices and let the market work. Insurance companies, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies cannot stay in business without customers. Take away their biggest customer, the U.S government with its deep pockets, and they all will be forced to find ways to make their products affordable so the rest of us can buy them. Voila!!! Affordable healthcare again.
50 years ago insurance companies wanted nothing to do with the elderly because of all those pesky claims they file, so Medicare was invented.
Sending our 'health-care dollars' to private bureaucracies when we're young and working and then sending our medical bills to the tax payers when we're old seems stupid to me.
50 years ago, healthcare was affordable for most Americans. If you went to the doctor you paid out of pocket the $5 to $10 fee plus whatever x-ray or shot or other treatment that you received just as we paid out of pocket for home repairs, auto repairs, getting the television or lawn mower fixed. Insurance didn't kick in until you had exhausted a fairly high deductible. A semi-private hospital room was affordable for most and hospitals worked out a monthly pay plan for those who didn't have insurance or the money for their deductibles.
And then the government got involved.
Almost from Day One costs were no longer market driven and began escalating at an unprecedented rate that has accelerated as the years pass. And now we have unaffordable healthcare costs for most Americans and just as high a percentage of uninsured people as we had before. Except now the uninsured people aren't supposed to work out payment plans with healthcare providers. They look to the rest of us to pay their bills.
It is so simple people. Get government out of the healthcare business altogether except for what regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies and unfair trade practices and let the market work. Insurance companies, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies cannot stay in business without customers. Take away their biggest customer, the U.S government with its deep pockets, and they all will be forced to find ways to make their products affordable so the rest of us can buy them. Voila!!! Affordable healthcare again.
50 years ago insurance companies wanted nothing to do with the elderly because of all those pesky claims they file, so Medicare was invented.
Sending our 'health-care dollars' to private bureaucracies when we're young and working and then sending our medical bills to the tax payers when we're old seems stupid to me.
The cure is simply make any non catastrophic health insurance policy illegal. Health care costs would fall like a rock.
Sounds like yet another rw who gets their health care via EMTALA at the emergency room.
^^^^^lie
You could count the number of times I've seen a doctor in the past 20 years on 4 fingers. None of them even hit my deductible.
Some people don't run to the doctor every time they get the sniffles.
I gave you the cure for high medical costs. Your simply afraid I'm right!
