Posted on 07/01/2009 1:53:05 PM PDT by Nachum
President Barack Obama's proposed "public insurance option" for universal health coverage seems logical: A large public insurance fund will provide quality coverage for the uninsured and force competing insurers to lower costs. In practice, though, one needs only look at what decades of government health care have done to ramp up the financial and quality problems endured by Britain and France.
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Florida tried the exact same scheme in Florida for homeowner’s insurance on the coasts. I think I read several months ago that State Farm, the last private insurer in the area, was pulling out of writing homeowners insurance in Florida because it could not provide insurance at the rates demanded by the government option.
He doesn’t care. He keeps saying that some other countries health care works very well but won’t say which countries.
He, also, never addresses “why” health care has gotten so expensive. Why have Insurance companies raised their prices? Why have hospitals and doctors raised their prices? You can’t fix a problem until you lay out the causes of the problem. If you can’t do that, you are nothing more than a parts replacer that calls themself a mechanic.
Yep, while living in UK where the socialists have worked their magic on public healthcare, I read a story about a woman admitted to a hospital after complaining of stomach pains.
They ran an Xray and they found the forceps accidently left there from a prior operation a couple of years before that was irritating her.
That’s what you get with “the public option”
No thanks.
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