Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Why will all the new government programs work when all the existing ones fail?
still avoiding the question....
please answer the following:
2011 is expected to see another 9% increase, just about the same as 2010. the difference is that in 2011 more employers are requiring the employee to pick up more of the costs. thus the out of pocket costs that employees see is rising by about 12%. (thats according to AARP) so who is to blame here for this actual increase? the insurance companies who have been increasing their rates for a decade, the employers who are making thier employees share more of the burden, or the health care law that hasnt even gone into full effect yet?
i will not continue on this argument until you can answer this questions, ill even make it multiple choice:
a - blame insurance companies
b - blame employers
c - blame the health care.
now after answering the question, can you please validate that answer with a rationale.
The American Health Care System is a Rolls Royce Care system. The problem is that the Government is trying to make this Rolls Royce available on a used Chevy budget.
The only way to reduce the cost of healthcare is to REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE.
If the governemnt was serous about reducing the cost of healthcare, those are the costs they would be addressing. They are not. They are simply trying to intercept the dollars currently flowing from the insured to the insurance companies to the healthcare providers.
If they want to provide a an on the cheap system for those who cannot afford the real system, they need to stand up a paralell system that acts as the healthcare to the poor and uninsured. This system could be staffed with volunteers, med students, nurses and doctors performing pro bono and working over televised meeting type care provision.
Buildings could be any of the abandoned schools in neighborhoods around the country.
This would set up the parallel system in competition with the "real" system and therby have a separate and additional cost containment feature.
So, who do I blame? All of us. If this life boat sinks, we all get wet.
LOL. A Rolls Royce Health Care System? Ranked #37. With longevity way behind most of the industrial nations, and infant mortality right down in the third world category.
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