Posted on 09/25/2013 6:10:34 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
That's what happens when you corrupt a service with billions and billions of tax payer dollars and endless government regulations. More government isn't the cure. It never is.
He’s got my vote.
We had one before and we still have one. It is called the free market.
Let insurance companies sell across state lines. Limit law suits. Get serious about medicare fraud.
If someone wants bealthcare, they need to get a job, earn the money and buy it. Nothing in the Constitution that says Americans are guaranteed healthcare. This is a free country (or used to be) and some left-wing asshole of a “president” has no business forcing socialized medicine on Americans. He needs to take his sorry communist ass to a socialist country where they might appreciate his communism.
Will he survive the media/Democrat/GOP crucifixion?
I hope so.
I put my trust in God but, I sure like Ted.
mine too. Plus my pocket!
NONSENSE and BALDERDASH.
Medical costs were reasonable and often negotiated between rotor, patient, and hospital BEFORE the government got involve with the crappy medicare system. (That was in the late 1950s and early 1960s). Ever since very time the government decides to implement NEW regulations the cost goes up (just like the cost of college with the increasing school loan programs).
I suggest you are not old enough to remember the fights that went on trying to prevent medicare. Either that or you were not paying attention. I have watched thos fight for the past 50 years and it makes me sick every time it comes around.
Having been tortured by first Bautista then Castro, only to flee Cuba for America at age 18, Ted's daddy has enough political stories to last Ted a lifetime and then some!
Nope, growing up with his father's legacy, Ted will fare just fine against the wiley coyotes in the GOP and still have legs to stand on for the democRATS!
As for me, I'm rooting for free enterprise and LESS government, in my healthcare.
Yup that too. The big donors may well be for someone else but if we stand together we can git er done
Cruz in the Whitehouse. Works for me.
Exactly! That's why Ted Cruz supports allow the American people to purchase insurance policies across state lines which has not been allowed. In the state of California, for example, there were only a few insurance companies from which the people were allowed to purchase their policies. This is the situation across the USA. No competition means HIGH prices.
ObamaCare, on the other hand, increases the cost of healthcare.
When the government gets involved, the rates go up.
$400 toilet seats
$600 hammers
Apartments that were once $300 a month now are over $1000 a month because landlords know that if the working man cannot afford it, the career welfare recipient can because the same government that pays $400 for a toilet seat will surely pay $1500 for a one bedroom apartment.
That and medical savings plans should take care of all who desire coverage!
I disagree.
In America, healthcare is controlled by the government already.
As long as the government has edicts about everything having to do with healthcare, then we cannot run up uncontrolled costs.
I do not see US healthcare going through a loss of central control.
I can support that, but I do not think it will happen.
If that won’t happen, then we need to reign in spending and control the costs.
We are obviously in different places.
I have healthcare, but that could change.
I support some of what is being trotted out.
I believe enough people do, that we really need to propose a better plan.
Now.
No, there is another option:
It’s called paying for what you receive. Now, I have a brother that has no healthcare insurance and he pays as he goes - and finds it much cheaper!
The problems we have with healthcare today have to do with costs - and most of that resolves around the government.
Take them out of it and costs go down dramatically.
My brother found a Doctor that takes patients without insurance and pays about 1/4 the cost of insured patients. That of course is just one instance but I’d bet that if practiced across the states, it would become the norm.
The result is that if left to individuals, costs would be low - when Government is involved, costs escalate.
Isn’t that true whenever Government gets involved?
Well I respectfully disagree.
We need to decrease the cost of healthcare.
A LOT.
If you don’t think the central control will go away, then you can forget any thoughts about reigning in costs.
Central control = costs —— get it? Central control = socialism —— get it?
We need to coalesce around Ted now. If we start early the primary will be a cake walk for him. Unbloodied from a primary would leave him in a stronger place to win the general.
Well, I agree! I also agree that the cost of a decent computer should be much less! Actually, the cost of food is outrageous! I think all of these costs should be lessened! Don’t you?
46% of healthcare costs are currently paid from the federal budget.
(medicare, medicaid, veterans, federal employees).
So yes about half the market is already controlled by Wash DC.
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