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joether -> RE: 8 Immediate Cost Benefits of Health Care Reform (9/26/2010 11:19:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: truckinslave
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The problem is cost.
And the problem with increasing costs is that they are largely driven by technology.
Want to control, almost freeze insurance costs? Forbid insurance companies to pay for new technologies and treatments.
Want to lower costs? Legislate the purchase of insurance across state lines, reaffirm the law of contracts, and allow custom policies.
Want to pay double or triple? Put the government in charge.
Yes, the goverment does run a health care system. Its in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, called 'Mass Health'. Do you know how much it costs to cover every Man, Woman, and Child, who is both a resident and US Citizen? $700 Million. You know deep of a cost that is, to the Mass budget? Just 0.02% of the total budget. So if it doubles, it'll cost the commonwealth....*gasp*.....a whole 0.04%! Mass residents don't even complain about it (except for the really clueless Tea Partiers). The program is run, pretty well; if there are problems, there are mechanisms to correct it. If something has to be retooled, that is what state representatives are there to do. Its a system 'of the people, by the people, for the people. It isn't perfect, but you have a better shot of getting the medical treatment you need.
Go check every insurance company, and examine their CEO's package benefits, and his upper level executives too. You, the individual person, are paying for those guys to have outragious salaries and bonuses. Either directly, or through your employeer. As not a single CEO of a medium sized company (let alone a national, or multi-national) earns less then $15 million/year in salary, benefits, and bonuses. And your paying for that, slave! You have very little if any say in the matter, so go ahead, keep bitching. It keeps falling on deaf ears, by the guys laughing out loud....all the way to the bank!
Want to lower costs? Allow a goverment option. A base line, that is handled by administrators who report to Congress. The CEO and his upper executives of the private company can laugh in your face if you try to keep them accountable. But Senators and Represenatives, have to get re-elected. And voters tend to have long memories. A Goverment Option, while not 'bells & whistles', would give incentive to private insurance to lower their costs, or risk losing customers. Allow that option, to take the form of what goverment employees (including the President and Congress) has access to. You will quickly find, those companies shedding excess perks for their upper level management, in favor of not screwing around with their customers.
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