Comments on: Fast Track To Government-Run Health Care

National Review Online: Obama's Plan Would Sow Seeds Of Destruction For Private Insurance

[andor3]

" [...] will get a shot at what''''s left of my wallet..."
and why not? you earned it on their backs why should they not take back what is theirs?

"Do you people really think that the wealthy are going to go to the same doctors the rest of us..."
The wealthy have their own doctors now. The current broken, for-profit, insurance company scam system "ensures" that happens. I have insurance, and my insurance company fights me every time I try to see my regular doctor.. they try to send me to an over worked, incompetent prescription mill doctor.

"Just where do you think all the quality doctors from Canada practice? They practice right here, ...''
Nope I know good doctors leaving the US to practice in Canada. Why? because they system here is too broken, too much paperwork, too hard to bill, and the doctors and patients both get the shaft while do-nothing insurance companies profit the money that should go to both.

Government run health care? Single payer? bring it on... anything is better than the for-profit monstrosity we have now.

[feelfree4u]

Mr. Capretta,

Any thoughts?

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[ljb6599]

maxify55...EDUCATE YOURSELF!!UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS NOT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!!!!! IN A TRUE SINGLE PAYER THE GOVERNMENT PAYS THE BILLS AND THAT IS IT JUST LIKE MEDICARE. PEOPLE ARE FREE TO SEE ANY DOCTOR THEY WANT.DOCTORS ARE NOT EMPLOYED BY THE GOVERNMENT.WITHOUT PRIVATE INSURANCE MILLIONS WOULD BE SAVED BECAUSE THE OVERHEAD WOULD BE LOWER.INSURANCE COMPANIES WOULD NOT GO AWAY COMPLETELY.THEY WOULD SELL ADDITIONAL INSURANCE BEYOND THE BASIC PLAN IF PEOPLE WANTED IT.TODAY PEOPLE GO BANKRUPT IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT PAY THEIR MEDICAL BILLS.IF PEOPLE WOULD GIVE IT A CHANCE THEY WOULD SEE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE MORE MONEY IN THEIR POCKET BECAUSE OF HEALTH CARE SAVINGS.IT IS TIME TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT! THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BANKRUPT US ALL SOMEDAY!!

[hungry1968]

Yep, sounds like a demobrat will get a shot at what''''s left of my wallet for all the dead beats without the will or means to get insurance.

Posted by maxify55 at 09:14 PM : May 28, 2008





What if someone looks for a job with insurance, but can''t find it, and has to take a job that doesn''t offer it?

Is he still a deadbeat?

In case you didn''t know, more and more companies ARE NOT offering health insurance these days, due to the fact that it costs so much. And I''m not talking about little companies - I''m talking about new hires at GM, Ford, etc, etc.

People going through contract negotiations, are choosing better pay and benefits for themselves, at the sacrifice of new people being hired by their respective companies.

[wogerwabbit]

We may not know the cure, but we know the healthcare system is sick... some of the symptoms are fairly obvious. For instance, Insurers and Big Pharma are choking on dollars while we, along with most doctors and healthcare workers, are getting screwed. No matter what the neocon nitwits say, industries do not regulate themselves according to market demand, they engorge themselves on our flesh when the government protects them and not us.

[kranepool21]

Surgeons have to study work till age 33 or 34 before they start earning some $$$....also IF WE ARE TO HAVE A GOV''T RUN HEALTHCARE PROGRAM THEN THE RIDICULOUS LAWSUITS MUST STOP.....LAWSUITS TAKE UP 6% OF GDP AND MANY ARE FROM THE MEDICAL WORLD..John Edwards has 30 million cause he went after OBGYN people......there has to br a cap on what lawyers get and what awards are...oh that is the free market you say? then we will keep the free market in healthcare and many will have none...I don''t want to be selfish but I realize with a national plan my care will go down as I share with others who don''t get care

But with a Congress who does not adress Social Security or Medicare I wonder how they will be able to attack healtcare regardless of what OBAMA wants

yet the head of the Stock Exchange (approved by the BOARD) was making 140 million a year!!!!!

we are all sinking as other nations rise some cept for the very wealthy

lawyers rule and the old saying what do you call a lawyer at the bottom of the lake(a good start)seems cruel at times it sums up one of the big problems with this country

[feelfree4u]

IT_Oldtimer,

RE: "I am actually all in favor of the total destruction of the private insurance industry! It''s just a racket!"

Second!

[feelfree4u]

wernet2,

Re: "Total spending was $2.3 TRILLION in 2007, or $7600 per person"

Assuming that your numbers are accurate, how much of that spending was profit for HMOs, which would vanish if they were cut out of the deal?

[it_oldtimer]

I am actually all in favor of the total destruction of the private insurance industry! It''s just a racket!

The private insurance companies charge obscene prices for the most minimal coverage, if they''ll cover you at all, and then they routinely refuse to pay out on claims while simultaneously canceling your policy and blacklisting you so others won''t cover you either.

[mibrooks27]

The reason Toyota located their new plant in Canada was because of the high and unpredictable health costs for employees in this country. Health care expendatures account for 18% of GNP. No other country on the face of the earth even spends 5% of GNP on health care and countries with genuine single source, single payer systems like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Germany, Austria, etc have care that is far superior to ours. Mishmash public-private systems like those in Canada and the U.K. provide superior care to the very wealthy and lousy care for everyone else. The answer, thus, is very clear - do away with private health insurance companies. They do nothing except enrich speculators and investors in that commodity market anyways. Get rid of them. Replace this with a Scandinavian style health system. The savings could balance the federal budget in under 12 months. It is estimated that by 2012, 2/3 of American households will not have health coverage provided by their employers (unless they are public employees.... public employees ALWAYS somehow manage to get benefits that none of the rest of us even dream of - but I''ll be you a dollar there is a backlash that cuts back their benefits, too.).