We need politician insurance.
I been saying this for a long time...
Any time you have someone else paying the bill for you, its gonna cost MORE!
Stossel did a good series some years ago opposing government-run healthcare. It was longer, but it made all the same points. I can’t wait for him to start with Fox.
thank you
Obama’s Hidden Agenda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi7CsxuOlGQ&feature=related
He puts together Obama’s hidden agenda extremely well.
Is he still employed by ABC?
Great - thanks.
My father was one of the smartest people I have ever known. First, I will relate that after watching Ronald Reagan give his speech after the TV program sponsored by GE, my Dad commented: “Why can’t somebody like that be President?” The year was 1959! I remember it well. It made a big impression on me.
After spending 10 years selling insurance and real estate, my father stated that the medical system was broken. He pointed out that a system where one party pays a second party to provide services to a third party does not have proper “feedback”. This observation was sometime in the late 1970’s.
Since I am heaping praise on my father for being prescient, I should also point out that one of his favorite desserts was homemade yogurt on top of fruit, like peaches. He developed a taste for this in 1960! If only we had made a business of it! :)
He’s a racist!!
This is something I have been saying all along. If a part of the market is artificially high, one must find out what is keeping it high and remove that thing, allowing the rules of supply and demand to resume.
I would submit that private insurance and gubmint insurance are the primary reasons why the health industry is so expensive (though other forces apply, law suits, over-regulation as examples)
WHY would one create a monopoly in favor of the very forces causing the high costs, and allow government to operate it?
I also resent doctor's offices booking up the schedule back to back starting at 8:00 a.m., full well knowing that doctor is NOT going to show up until at the earliest 9:00 a.m. Nothing like sitting in a doctor's office waiting room with 10 - 15 sick people exposing each other. There is really no way to budget for medical expenses other than the first purchase of some type of health insurance. Then one need be prepared to pay that deductible before the insurance starts to pay for any medical care. After that one can never leave the doctor's office knowing with any kind of surety of what exactly the amount is going to be owed after the insurance company does its review. And then it can be weeks before that bill shows up on the mail.
Priority number one every time I have gone to the doctor is not what my medical problem is, it is met with that first face demanding to know my economic status. And that is the last face I face when I leave the place.
I hold the government do gooders accountable for setting up their future lobbying groups to keep themselves on the take election after election for the state of health care becoming a long ever evolving system of socialistic medicine.
When our measure of "affordability" is whether or not we got more than we paid for, of course the cost go up.
Ask yourself how you keep your auto insurance premiums low? Odds are, you take a high deductible, you don't make claims for routine maintenance or minor dings, and you only make bigger claims knowing that if you do, you're rates are likely to go up next year.
So, why are we surprised to see our health insurance premiums go up year-over-year when we expect unlimited office visits every time we get the sniffles?
We need to reconsider what insurance should be...protection in the event that we have chronic issues or catastrophic health problems. We ought to be paying out of pocket for routine visits and for maintenance care.
My wife had a gastric banding procedure that our health insurance did not cover. With a cash deal the cost was probably $5,000-$7,000 less than what would have been charged to our insurance company. We figured that our share of what we would have paid in deductables and co-insurance would almost have equaled the cost of paying for it ourselves.