Posted on 06/03/2005 10:17:58 AM PDT by bagocookies
Nothing would be more counter-productive than an extension of the already outrageous Federal involvement.
See Medicare--Panacea or Death Potion?
William Flax
BTW, many trolls would stay around and respond to questions also (which this person really HASN'T as far as I can tell) if they weren't first ZOTTED.
You haven't asked me any questions about my motives. Ask and I will reply.
Why does it never occur to these types that the cost problems associated with health care result from government involvement, combined with the ridiculous idea that it is an employer’s responsibility to fix their employee’s kid’s teeth. How about this: Drastically roll-back government regulation of health insurance, burn all malpractice lawyers in a massive pit, remove all tax benefits associated with paying for employee health care. Completely disassociate the purchase of health care from employment. Sit back and watch costs drop drastically.
Yup. I dunno about physicians fleeing the country (that's a huge move, and not many places better even if socialized health care were implemented) but over time fewer will go into medicine and thus quality will decrease.
If price/wage controls are instituted, then socialized health care would be a disaster.
The Federal government should fix that....
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Because they've been lied to about how it works. Or even the fact that it works at all.
You are right. The large corporations are attempting to shift responsibility to small companies and ordinary citizens through their state-corporatist advocacy of nationalized health care.
The best sometimes costs a little more. Just check out what the UK is experiencing with their universal healthcare...it isn't pretty.
Exactly...this system would fail because the trial lawyers won't want it.
If this ever comes to pass, we will have rogue doctors out there who will have fee for service practices.
Actually I'd have to disagree with you on the kids teeth thing. Most employers I have worked for see a benefit in providing some sort of health care. A healthy person and / or family cuts down on time absent and increases the overall moral of any company.
A good health plan or access to one usually is good for a company
I'll bet this same 65% indicated support for "guaranteed health insurance" back in 1993, too -- and yet the Clinton plan was so abysmal that even the Democrat-dominated House and Senate wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
What many people eventually figure out is that the primary goal of government-sponsored health care is not "guaranteed access," "elimination of excess overhead," etc. -- it's a reduction of health-care costs through government-enforced methods that people would never tolerate from insurance companies or any other private business. The underlying premise of government-sponsored health care -- and the reason it "works" to the extent that it reduces costs -- is that the reductions in the quality of care people receive are done under the force of law, which means people don't have too many options if they don't like it.
What happens if a doctor wants to treat people that for example, pay cash for services? You wonder if that would be prohibited.
If I falsely maligned you, then I certainly apologize, but you need to learn a little FREEPER manners/etiquette. It is proper to put the term "Barf alert" in parenthesis after goofy left wing article such as these.
Again, sorry for any wrong assumptions.
My husband has one of those. It's just started and we haven't needed to use it yet, though, so I can't really say how useful it will be.
I want a medical savings account that can roll over into an IRA, and catastrophic insurance coverage. Think of the possibilities...
bagocookies
Since Jun 2, 2005
Companies are not moving towards national healthcare, they are moving towards letting the employee take more responsibility for their own plan.
Additionally, doctors are not moving towards national healthcare. More and more they are moving to private practice and don't accept health plans.
Under a single-payer system, you think the gov's going to let doctors charge whatever they want to?
Corporate America will embrace universal health care as a way to shift the cost of insurance expenses for workers and retirees to the federal government and the public.
Yeah, you know, to the mythical, phantom 'government' that pays all the bills without taxing corporations or workers....it just, somehow, gets paid without actually costing anyone anything.....great system! Just ask Hillary.
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