MaggieMae
Reality bits
- Apr 3, 2009
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The Democrat Statists that foisted this crap on the res of us. It's in the Healthcare Law they voted for. You have nameless faceless bureaucrats making decisions to pay for treatment or not.
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So you still believe it, eh? Pathetic. The irony is that under a private plan, administrators of those plans make life/death decisions every day, but that has never seemed to bother anyone.
It's really frustrating that after all this time, some of you people continue to believe that the health care reform will operate as a universal program administered by the government, when in fact, insurance companies will still be making the decisions on coverage, not the government.
Actually, the discussion of "death panls" was iun regard to the "government plan" if one was to be included in the reform.
You see, with private carriers, you opt to choose the policy...in plan, out of plan, full coverage, deductable...all choices...and yes, sometimes the plan you choose will allow the insuracne company to deny you what you need...but that was based on the plan you opted for.
But if the government ran a plan, the only way it could be coist effective is if they, the government, made the same decisions....but you would not have a choice of plan...it would have been a one size fits all plan...
Yes, death panels was a strong term to use....but as you suggest...they already exist in the private carriers.
Imagine the government making those decisions and you having no choice but to accept the only plan available.
Insurance companies will be competing with each other for the pools of people to be covered, just as it happens now when an employer decides to choose an insurer offering the best basic coverage for the company. OF COURSE everyone won't get every kind of coverage they want! They don't now! Only if they opt for a private "Cadillac" plan can they do that. The only one-size-fits-all insurance plan run by the government is Medicare.