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We can go to the moon, wage war in Iraq, our business leaders take tens or hundreds of millions of dollars home every year, certainly our nation and businesses can afford basic health care for all.
I don't believe that people should be forced into high deductible plans if they can't pay for insurance, nor do I think that they should be prevented from choosing such plans.
People need to be educated, and they need to have options. We aren't going to improve the system through scare tactics and suggestions that some types of plans deter people from getting needed help. Nor will we improve the system by guaranteeing to the insurance companies that every citizen of Utah will be buying their products.
A closer look at this study shows that the group issuing it is highly biased, none of the data is their own, and the "study" is extremely weak.
Let's be careful about taking every piece of news at face value or we are likely to end up with a solution that only bogs our system down more. Every American should have access to health care, but as anonymous said health care and health insurance are not the same thing.
FDR and other no nothings introduced these problems during WW2. It's time to move on. Government-mandated socialism doesn't work.
I just went through a hospitalization with only a major medical policy and I know how expensive it is. Oh.. and I paid all of my deductible which is more than what many people using our hospitals do
Let's treat the wound (cost), not the bandage (insurance)!
I guess it's more sensational to cite lack of insurance as the cause of death because then it's easier for you to demand socialized medicine. Overly dramatic and emotional arguments weaken your cause.
I remember a Benny Hill skit poking fun at the British health system, where the working class patient was treated at a public health facility by an unsanitary, chain-smoking drunkard; operated on with a mallet to the head for anesthesia. The wealthy patient went to a private facility and was treated by buxom nurses and highly skilled doctors. Obviously there was significant exageration, but the point was well illustrated. Socialized medicine has the potential to move those currently in the middle class with health insurance into public health care, while only the wealthy (no longer those would good health plans) could afford really top-notch care. This was meant to be funny, not serious, like your argument.
It's a wicked wicked cycle: insurance leads to greater doctor bills, which leads to higher insurance. Factor in a few lawyers and we're all messed up!
It's not a government issue.
Ever wonder what things were like before insurance? I'm confident the medical system was more humane in their billing.
The insurance company, like a bunch of sharks, smelled blood and now works off of fearmongering and naive people who can't bear the unthinkable thought of being uninsured.
NOT PROFIT IS HEALTHCARE FOR ALL. The INSURANCE COMPANIES are only out for MONEY they are ACCOUNTABLE to there STOCK HOLDERS. The HEALTHCARE
REFORM BILL they pass at the LEGISLATURE is going
to FAIL BIG!
My wife recently had some lab work done. We went to an "approved" provider. They sent us a bill for $273.00. When the insurance FINALLY paid (after two delinquency notices), they paid less than $26.00! And under the plan, that's all the provider gets, and I am not responsible for the difference.
So ... if I have insurance, the provider gets paid peanuts. If I don't have insurance, I get GOUGED more than 1000% more to make up for it.
I lost my job last year and am paying THROUGH THE NOSE for the COBRA premiums. I tried to get private insurance, but due to "pre existing conditions", no one will sell me a policy at ANY price. I am not asking anyone to pay my premiums for me, or to go on welfare. I have money and am willing to pay for medical insurance, but can't get it.
What's wrong with this picture?
But even though such studies are meaningless, they can still be harmful, because too often they�re are accepted and used as the basis for foolish decisions on the part of lawmakers and government agencies. Yes, it�s valuable for people to have health insurance, but, like most areas, when the government gets involved, there are shortages, lower quality, and higher prices.
standard of HEALTHCARE will LOWER, The of Utah is
going to help pay for HEALTH INSURANCE for individual that cannot afford it. The INSURANCE
COMPANIES going to get CORPORATE WELFARE. We have
SOCIALISM police, fire and SOCIALISM EDUCATION WHAT
THE DIFFERENT, TIME FOR HR676 SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH
INSURANCE PEOPLE NOT PROFIT FAMILY VALUES
I can't really make sense of what you said because the grammar is garbled, but it looks like you said the standard of healthcare will lower. Do we really want a lower standard of healthcare? Did you mean the COST will be lowered, not the standard of care??
I've longed been convinced that the real problem with rocketing health care costs may very well be the insurance system. To an extent it is socialized medicine, those who can afford to pay get a small copay in return. The small copay leads to less discretion and more visits. More visits lead to more testing, which leads to more billing, and that brings an increase in next years premium. Insurance companies should be focusing more on rewarding those who don't abuse the system. For example, refunding what you don't use from your deductible or applying it against next years premiums.
I think there are many viable options, but we need to get away from thinking of health plans as insurance.
the LEGISLATURE SESSION. By making it MANDATORY everyone to have HEALTH INSURANCE, all it is a MONEY
for INSURANCE COMPANIES, it is a LOWER STANDARD CARE
that all INSURANCE have to PAY. GOOD HEALTHCARE IS A
PRIVILEGE NOT RIGHT.