The President's Hurry Up and Wait Health Care Policy

The Provocateur ^ | 07/19/2009 | Mike Volpe

[fiscon1]

Any successful salesperson worth their salt knows that to close the sale you need to create urgency. If there's no reason to buy NOW there's no reason to buy period. A car salesman will claim that said deal will go away, often referred to as a take away close. A stock broker will say that the price of said investment will go up. A mortgage broker will say that rates are about to go up. You get the idea.

[Rapscallion]

Believe me the cost would come down if illegal aliens were excluded and politicians had to be participants and pay their own way. By the way, every participant shoud pay to be in the health plan. Pay-as-you-go, right folks. Make it a separate insurance premium billed to each person/family!!!!!

[cranked]

Given their ‘doom and gloom end of the world tomorrow’ scenerios and that only 7-10 percent has been thus far spent, reminds me of their Stimulus/Porkulus....hurry up and wait....

[loveliberty2]

As I just posted on another thread:

Remember the campaign promise to the effect that the first signing would be FOCA?

Is it just possible that the great push for health care legislation by August (without Congress, perhaps, even reading the bill) is really about satisfying the Far Left with a back-door FOCA move?

[ANGGAPO]

Over 230 years our country has developed the best health care system in the world by letting the free market system work. It has a few bumps and thumps but it works just about as good as it can be made to work. If you don't have medical insurance and are sick, go to any emergency room for help.
Now this isn't good enough, we are going to overhaul it and destroy a workable health care system. Welcome to the third world.

[Kansas58]

“Back the ambulance up to the door” is what this tactic used to be called.

Yes, I sell insurance.

I despise manipulative selling tactics, I try to use the technique known as “needs based selling” -—

I try to tell everyone that the purpose of health insurance is to protect their credit, and that their insurance has little to do with the quality or availability of care.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

.....every participant should pay to be in the health plan

Here, here!!!! Everyone should have to pay something every time they use their health care plan, if for no other reason, than to make them think before running up a bill. Even the "poor" should have to pay a co-pay of some kind. For their prescription drugs, make them choose generic drugs with a small co-pay or brand name with a significant co-pay.

However it is structured, it has to use some sort of participant fee to discourage overuse.