Numerous polls showed majority support for health care insurance reform before the presidential election of 2008 and this issue was ultimately debated and passed in the 111th Congress.
Pray tell me more about this "big stall." I am hearing reports that even Texas is closer to caving on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion than you might realize.
A universal plan would include all the risks, even the younger ones who obviously enjoy relatively favorable odds of not having a loss (or being able to financially sustain a smaller loss), allowing them to, shall we say, "skate" without coverage for a time until they age. The risk pool of even the casino plans depend upon the premiums of those who do not have losses to cover those who do. Due to the complex nature of all aspects of insurance the huge preponderance of the public, likely including even the esteemed bloggie himself are "low information" easily allowing the right's scare tactics to wreak havoc on the current Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act which has already weathered a major constitutional test. Unfortunately for your ilk which have opposed such reform for over a century, despite all the developed nations in the world having implemented some sort of universal coverage, you have no choice but to give it a try. Your tactics continue to fail, but that does not mean you will not continue to do what you have always done. We know that.
there’s no free market in our healthcare system, that hospitals set their rates knowing that someone in pain or in fear for his or her life is not going to ask to see the price list first before agreeing to some test or treatment. It’s no wonder that 60 percent of our fellow Americans who file for personal bankruptcy each year do so because of medical costs.
Of course, if you have Medicare or an expensive health insurance policy, your costs are going to be lower, since hospitals are forced to give you a discount and insurance companies themselves are able to negotiate much lower prices for services. If, however, you have no or insufficient insurance, you’ll be charged top rates. In any case, drug companies, medical device makers, hospitals, and labs are assured of profit; it just depends how big—and that’s really what all those who want to take the government out of healthcare are screaming about. They want no restraints placed on profits of medical industry, or for that matter, anywhere else.
Read more at http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/02/new-american-sadism/
Your ar e correct that restraints on profits are bad and wrong in all situations. It's tyranny.
What you are mistaken about, though, is the matter of the Big Stall. States can't fund or even organize these exchanges they're supposed to create. Doctors are leaving the medical field in large numbers. Businesses and even municipal governments and universities are cutting as many employees as possible back to 29 hours a week to avoid paying their health insurance.
And, if there is no free market in our health care system, why not? Why aren't hospitals, medical device makers, drug companies et al competing with one another to offer maximum value to the consumer? They would have to if they didn't assume the existence of government propping-up.
We might have to put a vote for single payer universal care before the Congress and soon. I will not be able to fully assess the Patient Protection & Affordable Health Care Act until it is implemented. My wife is losing her job, hence her health insurance and it is doubtful prospective employers will be lining up to subsidize even a portion of her health insurance premiums and we cannot wait to see what the Cobra premium will be. This is all hitting pretty close to home here. I qualify for medicare (single payer) in 21 months and she does in 31 months. In the meantime, we could be making payments on a Lexus (which blowhard Fred Thompson, the actor claims we can all do with Obamacare premiums). This whole issue is chock full of lies, half-truths, innuendos, fear(that's a big one because we are still dealing with a host of unknowns), anger, blame, BS, etc. Not that different from any other pressing issue in this land of ours.
Even Obama is said to be on board with Medicare cuts. That is not sitting well with many Dems nor is it being met with much glee amongst the retirement demographic, of course including myself.
And I'd still be interested in your answer to the question of why there isn't a truly free market in health care. A compelling reason to actually give it a try, I'd say.
Well, I do not have much to go on here, bloggie, since there are so few examples of it worldwide. Stateside we can look to plastic and laser eye surgery. I'll get back to you on this.
Numerous polls showed majority support for health care insurance reform before the presidential election of 2008 and this issue was ultimately debated and passed in the 111th Congress.
ReplyDeletePray tell me more about this "big stall." I am hearing reports that even Texas is closer to caving on the Obamacare Medicaid expansion than you might realize.
ReplyDeleteA universal plan would include all the risks, even the younger ones who obviously enjoy relatively favorable odds of not having a loss (or being able to financially sustain a smaller loss), allowing them to, shall we say, "skate" without coverage for a time until they age. The risk pool of even the casino plans depend upon the premiums of those who do not have losses to cover those who do. Due to the complex nature of all aspects of insurance the huge preponderance of the public, likely including even the esteemed bloggie himself are "low information" easily allowing the right's scare tactics to wreak havoc on the current Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act which has already weathered a major constitutional test. Unfortunately for your ilk which have opposed such reform for over a century, despite all the developed nations in the world having implemented some sort of universal coverage, you have no choice but to give it a try. Your tactics continue to fail, but that does not mean you will not continue to do what you have always done. We know that.
ReplyDeletethere’s no free market in our healthcare system, that hospitals set their rates knowing that someone in pain or in fear for his or her life is not going to ask to see the price list first before agreeing to some test or treatment. It’s no wonder that 60 percent of our fellow Americans who file for personal bankruptcy each year do so because of medical costs.
ReplyDeleteOf course, if you have Medicare or an expensive health insurance policy, your costs are going to be lower, since hospitals are forced to give you a discount and insurance companies themselves are able to negotiate much lower prices for services. If, however, you have no or insufficient insurance, you’ll be charged top rates. In any case, drug companies, medical device makers, hospitals, and labs are assured of profit; it just depends how big—and that’s really what all those who want to take the government out of healthcare are screaming about. They want no restraints placed on profits of medical industry, or for that matter, anywhere else.
Read more at http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/apr/02/new-american-sadism/
Your ar e correct that restraints on profits are bad and wrong in all situations. It's tyranny.
ReplyDeleteWhat you are mistaken about, though, is the matter of the Big Stall. States can't fund or even organize these exchanges they're supposed to create. Doctors are leaving the medical field in large numbers. Businesses and even municipal governments and universities are cutting as many employees as possible back to 29 hours a week to avoid paying their health insurance.
And, if there is no free market in our health care system, why not? Why aren't hospitals, medical device makers, drug companies et al competing with one another to offer maximum value to the consumer? They would have to if they didn't assume the existence of government propping-up.
We might have to put a vote for single payer universal care before the Congress and soon. I will not be able to fully assess the Patient Protection & Affordable Health Care Act until it is implemented. My wife is losing her job, hence her health insurance and it is doubtful prospective employers will be lining up to subsidize even a portion of her health insurance premiums and we cannot wait to see what the Cobra premium will be. This is all hitting pretty close to home here. I qualify for medicare (single payer) in 21 months and she does in 31 months. In the meantime, we could be making payments on a Lexus (which blowhard Fred Thompson, the actor claims we can all do with Obamacare premiums). This whole issue is chock full of lies, half-truths, innuendos, fear(that's a big one because we are still dealing with a host of unknowns), anger, blame, BS, etc. Not that different from any other pressing issue in this land of ours.
ReplyDeleteEven Obama is said to be on board with Medicare cuts. That is not sitting well with many Dems nor is it being met with much glee amongst the retirement demographic, of course including myself.
ReplyDeleteThen come up with the money somewhere in the budget to keep things at their current level.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd still be interested in your answer to the question of why there isn't a truly free market in health care. A compelling reason to actually give it a try, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteWell, I do not have much to go on here, bloggie, since there are so few examples of it worldwide. Stateside we can look to plastic and laser eye surgery. I'll get back to you on this.
ReplyDelete