toomuchtime_
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There is no basis in fact or logic for claiming universal health insurance will drive down health care/insurance rates. Government run/controlled health care/insurance can drive down health care/insurance rates by, to the extent the government controls the market, forcing providers, doctors, hospitals, etc., to accept lower payments and by rationing health care services in various ways, however, Congress could pass laws today that would force providers to accept lower payments and prevent insurance companies from providing high cost services without universal health care/insurance and without a government run plan and thereby significantly lower per capita health care costs. HR 3200 already contains provisions to limit increases in insurance premiums from private insurers, and over time this will force providers to accept less money or the insurance companies to provide less coverage.
Uh, excuse me toomuchtime......................... Did you go back and read your own post?
Just saying? You seem to have made several of my points very, very well.
Yep we have to set rates on drugs and procedures to bend the cost curve in medical care. It's done in other nations and works very well.
And it seems your all for HR 3200 toomuchtime which by the by the way includes a public option to drive down costs from private insurers.
By your post seems your for it. Good for you toomuchtime.
I was just trying to help you overcome your confusion about the effects of universal health care/insurance and government controlled health care/insurance on costs and how there is no necessary relationship between them, but obviously I failed.