Is The Real Fear Of Health Care Industry Is That The Gov Provided Health Ins. Will Be Too Good?
If the government health insurance is going to be as bad as the private health insurance companies are paying to say it is. The only people that will buy it are the people that can't pay for their insurance.
Otherwise why are they spending more than $1.4 a day to fight health insurance reform?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…
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November 17th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
The real fear is that all the health insurance companies that contribute so much campaign money will wither and die, politicians fear this so they manipulate the public into fearing it. If the federal government is going to spend billions of dollars a year anyway, why can’t it be on something that might actually benefit the American people. It seems that alot of the people against this get insurance through work or from mommy and daddy and have no idea what it actually costs to be insured. Also, insurance companies drop you the minute they realize they may actually have to pay for some medical bills whether you pay them or not.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Do tell me what existing government programs are good?
Education ? A joke
Medicare/Medicaid – Going broke?
Mortgage relief? Slow processing and an additional 1 million new foreclosures
All the government will do is drive down the premiums and making health care a non profitable business to get into, which will result in the government running healthcare insurance. Oh boy another government program that they can not afford.
You do know that one of the areas the government is talking about is making insurance spend 85% of premiums on healthcare.
Not sure of they have ever been involved in running a business, but at 15% gross, you might as well close the doors now and toss another 2 millions to the unemployment line.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:56 am
The real fear is that the private insurance companies will end up going bankrupt because of the “public option”.
Not because it’s better. But because it can operate “at a loss”.
Private insurance companies are limited in what they can pay out in claims based on what was paid in with subscription fees.
The “public option” will very likely be able to pay out MORE in claims than it brings in with subscription fees due to it being a government entity, and thus have access to taxpayer money.
If the “public option” does this just long enough to drive private insurance bankrupt, the government basically just nationalized the health care field and established a monopoly. And then all the nightmares begin. Waiting lines, rationed health care, “oh, you’re too old and will die anyways…deny the procedure…”, etc., etc.
We’re walking right into that, and the ignorant masses are cheering each step of the way.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Govt provided health insurance being too good? Don’t make me laugh.
Ask ANYONE from a country with socialized medicine and you’ll get a non-stop grumble about all it’s problems. Long waits, or being told that you can’t have (procedure) because you are not a “preferred customer” (i.e. when they only have so many of each procedure, they are doled out to preferred people i.e. children, so you as an adult are told you can’t have it).
They are fighting it because they are going to have to pay for other people’s health insurance, while watching their own come under attack.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Tell me one government program that has ever had quality as good as or better than its private industry counterpart. YOU CAN’T! “Government provided health insurance” will be paid for by the same people who now pay for their own. Why should I have to pay for YOUR insurance as well as mine?
Where in the Constitution of the United States do you find the authority for the federal government to interfere in health care? IT AIN’T THERE!!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Look to Holland and see how the system works there.
First of all, too many people do not know that Obama wants to make insurance more available to all.
Second, of course universal health-cover sucks. That is why we in Western Europe have it. We think, hmm, our healthcare system sucks. I know, lets keep it. I guess that is the same with Japan and Canada as well.
FACT – the USA spends more on healthcare PER PERSON than any other nation on the planet.
FACT – the US has higher death rates for kids aged under five than western European countries with universal health coverage.
That means that a dead American four year old would have had a better chance of life if they were born in Canada, France, Cuba, Germany, Japan etc, all of which have universal health coverage.
Now you can keep the current system which the rest of the world knows does not work, or you can change it…
November 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Hahaha….even ol’ Redd would laf at that one! The feds can’t keep Social Security solvent, the tax code is a joke, we’re inundated with illegals, the rest of the world laughs at us, we’re in debt debt up the wazoo & you think they can run something as complex as single-payer health care? hahahahahahahahaha….
November 18th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
No, I don’t think anyone is afraid of that…..
They don’t want to be put out of business- beacause government healthcare will do that, not because it’s good but because it’s “free”. Will your employer go to the expense of offering a healthcare plan when you could just get it “free” from the government? No, of course not. To believe otherwise is incredibly naive.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
what do you mean “it will be too good” !?
on the opposite …Obama’s reforms are threatening to destroy what Americans love most about the system: the quality.
there a million things that could go wrong with this “obama care” …;
1.They can underpay doctors, which will lead to shortages.
2.They can refuse to invest in the best new drugs and medical technology.
3.They can force people to wait for months or even years to get operations that they only have to wait weeks or even days for today.
4…………
and how Obama is planning to save money , he will simply deny senior citizens needed operations.!?
now tell me what do you think of that ?
November 19th, 2009 at 1:35 am
No, that’s not a fear I have. Nothing the government gets involved in ends up being better than the private sector, so why would you assume this will be different? I don’t need those lobbyists to tell me I don’t want universal healthcare and their interests are different than mine.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Universal health care will drive private care out of business and leave us with only the public option. I don’t want free health care I want quality health care.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Not hardly
November 19th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
You got that right.