Posted on 02/16/2011 3:58:36 AM PST by i88schwartz
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: "I think if we're going to really get at these issues we have to go after the private health insurers. We have to reform things, not just slash things and not just slash things on the poor. That's where we're heading right now. The public doesn't want it. The republicans will really walk into a buzz saw."
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These idiots will NEVER learn....
The only issue at hand should be to ban this guy from himself. He’s too stupid to be worth much.
Even if there were no private insurance companies, health care would still be expensive and the “poor” still wont be able to afford it. Hey, he’s fighting for the poor and against the repubs, so he must be right, right?
The Soviet Union didn’t fall, it moved here.
What “poor”? Does he mean the ones we see in the market with EBT cards and 9 kids, with 6ft 4 teenagers wearing Air Jordans who are still obese? Yeah, they are really suffering! At home they have cable TV (now will be $10 cable with free internet from Comcast), welfare, food stamps, school lunches, unemployment, disability. If you have no shame, our gov’t will lavish a fortune of handouts upon you for doing nothing.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-240.html
Welfare vs Work
Welfare is more ‘profitable’ than entry level jobs.
Whywork.org
The cost is not in the insurers, its by the hospitals AND government. The insurers don’t make a cat scan cost $2,000, hospitals do and they don’t do it alone. Government insists that the poor be covered virtually for free.
Do I LIKE BCBS? Not particularly...But for all the demonizingof insurance co’s by Zero’s insane clown posse, insurers are about #3 on the list...not #1.
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