Kid In A Candy Store (Single-Payer)
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 2:25pm
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Virtually all other Developed Countries have Single-Payer Health Insurance!!!
“If the universal coverage and single-payer features of the Canadian system were applied in the United States, the savings in administrative cost alone would be more than enough to finance insurance coverage for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured.” (Canadian Health Insurance: Lessons for the United States / Government Accountability Office (GAO)) "... Massachusetts ... require all residents to buy health insurance." "Just a year after ... The New York Times reported, state insurers were already jacking up rates to twice the national average." (Universal coverage? First, look at the disaster in Massachusetts / Washington Examiner) "Nearly two out of three bankruptcies stem from medical bills, and even people with health insurance face financial disaster if they experience a serious illness, a new study shows." (Medical Bills Cause Most Bankruptcies / NY Times) "... Angell attacks major pharmaceutical industry -- whose top ten companies make more in profits than the rest of the Fortune 500 combined..." (The Truth About Drug Companies / Mother Jones) "Wall Street analysts described the $80 billion giveback as a "good deal" for pharmaceutical companies ..." "'It will ultimately discourage patients ... from switching to generics ...'" (For Drug Makers, Concessions Have Bright Side / Wall Street Journal) Massachusettes-Type Mandatory Health Insurance = both higher rates & longer waits!!! Single-Payer Health Insurance with a $50 deductible after 1st annual check-up = paid over 10 years = about $1 per month = just what the doctor ordered!!! 
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The Truth = "... a lobbying feeding frenzy, with health insurers, drug makers and employers all poised to benefit ..."
"Requiring insurers to charge one price and accept all comers would boost prices ..."
+ Insurers, drug makers poised to profit from Obama health plan / Washington Examiner
( http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Insurers-drug-makers-poised-t... )
"Many experts say the high-risk pools already available in 35 states are plagued by high costs and inadequate coverage."
"Premiums paid by individuals would be supplemented by $5 billion in government subsidies."
+ Pre-existing Conditions and Insurance Pools / NY Times
( http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/pre-existing-condition... )
"The Los Angeles Times has a two-part series on patients who have sued their insurers for denying potentially life-saving transplants."
+ Patients Sue Insurers For Denying Transplants / Kaiser
( http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2009/October/09/Denials.as... )
"Tales of frustration with insurers abound. In an Internet survey that included 1,000 consumers, nearly one out of four said he or she had had a legitimate claim denied by their health insurance ..."
+Tips to effectively battle your insurance company / CNN
( http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/19/patient.insurance/index.html )
Do the math. Our per capita healthcare cost is now about $7,000. Insurance works because some people in the insured group don't cost anything and others cost a million. The companies profit when the payout is less than the premiums earned. Also, insurance companies join their premium pools and 'reinsure' each other to cover extraordinarily excessive costs which are cyclical so they don't go under. If Obamanation's smoke and mirrors plan is passed, we still have a $7,000 per year per capita cost. How does it get paid? T-A-X-E-S. On those that work. Or, like good liberals, we can also just mandate how much doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturers, etc., can make. Nothing like caps on profits to drive a country's economy!
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson
Free market principles don't work real well when applied to health care. Free markets rely on choice: you choose to provide a good or service at a price and I choose whether to buy it at that price. However, I don't really have a choice on when I get sick which severely limits my ability to choose when to enter the market. I recently had to have my appendix out. I don't recall anyone asking me if this was a good time financially to have my appendix nearly explode.
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FIREGUY!!!!
I'm sorry you had to have your appendix out. How's the family?
Good to see you Fireguy...
We are all well, despite Obamacare. ;)
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Glad you survived, FG. You would have done that regardless of Obama, McCain, or whatever. You're one tough guy!
Besides, what's an appendix for, anyway?
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's for causing excruciating pain.
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You are a whimp I got me one of them things and I aint hurtin
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sorry forgot the j/k thingy
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