Comments on: Universal Health Care is Near at Hand

By: GaryS California health insurance

GaryS California health insurance — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:10 +0000

Without free market, be ready for much higher taxes. Clearly the government has no need to make a profit, but they also can run at a perpetual loss. This means that there is no incentive to control costs because the US can either borrow, inflate, or tax. The Post Office, Amtrak, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. all operate with
losses or have immense long-term fiscal pressures. This will be no different. Be prepared to pay higher taxes & have a dollar that plunges in purchasing power.

By: murray

murray — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:34:13 +0000

I would suggest that our senators and house members abstain from taking money from the health insurance industry while the costs to insureds remain high. I would also like them to refuse their group insurance plan as it is being offered and go back to their home states to purchase coverage for themselves and their spouses. While they are doing this they can also refuse the pension we pay for until we get pension reform. The senators and house members obstructing any positive changes are also those with their hands out.

By: bill0317a

bill0317a — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:13:43 +0000

Have you even read the 600+ pages of the proposed health care plan?

Do you realize that nowhere in the bill does it limit the healthcare to whether you are a US citizen or not.

That alone should cause alarm for us. That means that you could be in living in the US illegally and still receive healthcare off the hard working tax payers.

Do you realize that if enacted that there is no way the private sector healthcare can not keep up with the expectations the government is going to put on them.

Thus, ultimately, we will all be forced to get our healthcare through the federal government.

It is interesting you have placed the blame of our expensive healthcare system on the private sector – you also state that the government -

“then we simply should remind such skeptics that our federal government already administers and funds well over 50 percent of total health care expenditures by this nation.”

Could it be that is one of the reasons it is expensive?

In my opinion the solutions to our healthcare is the following:

1.) The healthcare industry needs more private compeitition not government intervention. I do agree there is a temptation for fewer health plans to cause higher rates, but the best way to fix that is to reduce the regulations to open up the market better.

2.) The healthcare industry needs more openness in the cost to consumer for procedures. This would allow the consumer to be incharge of there care instead of a government board dictating policy for care. It would put the healthcare into the hands of the consumer, not the an agency.

3.) There needs to be massive Tort reform.

4.) The healthcare industry needs to come out of the dark ages wise and adapt more newer and efficient technologies.

By the way many the organizations you have mentioned above are not free from corruption either, in fact sometimes, I believe they breed more corruption.