Comments on: Would An Overhaul Hurt Health Care?

Reform Could Prompt Employers To Drop Plans, Choice Of Doctors Could Diminish

[salmoc44]

If the private market really worked when it comes to providing affordable health care for Americans, there wouldn't be 50 million Americans without health care insurance.

[jeff-fla]

by ur_u_nuts June 23, 2009 5:45 PM PDT
I say make ALL the clowns in DC go under the same health care they want to put us under!!!!

That is what they want to do. Keep up.

[jsd330]

you will never get the same plan, check a Government employee's plan to that of a Congressmans or Senators bet you'll find a big difference.You will get a watererd down health care plan that you will end up buying supplemental insurance, just like medicare.

[skyk-2009]

For 60 years I've heard all the excuses they can come up with as to why we shouldn't have a public health plan. EVERY LAST one of them have been LIES! All this time I have watch as our Health Care System has sunken to the Worst in the World, costing us more than any other nation on the planet. I've also seen all other developed nations cover all their citizens and none of them have had to go to work not knowing if they or their families will be covered the next day. The LIES, the EXCUSES and the Greed has gone on long enough.

[jab232]

We already have severe rationing and restriction of choice. And congress will probably vote to perpetuate that. We all know the GOP (and some blue dog Democrats) are in the pockets of the big health insurance companies and the medical establishment. There are fifty million people uninsured. Sixty percent of the personal bankruptcies in this country come from health care costs. Tens of thousands undergo rescission, cutting off already paid on health insurance once you get an expensive illness.

Many of us resent the fact that congress, with its excellent public option plan of health care, is in the pockets of the big insurance and drug companies and the rich medical establishment. Let the private insurers with their million-dollar-CEOs (one made 24 million last year) compete by making available to everyone the same kind of health insurance plan congress already has.

[mars7578]

The healthcare industry have made their business unacceptable.Instead of trying to correct itself,it hired lobbists to try to get people to focus on the governmental intervention rather that save their business.By default,the government had to step in to stop a rapidly deteriorating condition . The root of the problem is the drive for profits.The answer is to regulate the return of the associated industries.They already set the price on the local provider and patient and now need to address the next level which is choking the rest of the system.

[McHineguy]

You are naieve and too innocent to be out alone at night. The top few dont get anything more or less under these plans. What happens is the government taxes us all (the rich just raise the prices you pay them so you are the one who pays their tax increase) and then the government buys us all insurance with PART of that tax increase. In addition, they pay for beaurecrats who verify you are eliglibel for all those services. Of course they verify that doctors are charging fair prices but that verification costs as much as what they save.

Therre is no fee lunch.

[azure13]

Yep, it can't get worse. We are already paying super high rates to cover the uninsured. 62% of personal bankruptcies are because of medical costs and inadequate insurance. We end up paying for that in some way also. Most likely higher rates in just about everything.
Businesses are struggling to provide benefits, which just makes outsourcing more attractive.
People who are against a public plan are just plain stupid scared little lemmings.

[azure13]

At least 20% of our doctors are Indian.

[azure13]

Well said.

[azure13]

No idea what you just said.