Why does healthcare cost so much?

[EdwardBaiamonte]

The most significant way to make health care affordable is to make it competitive. Imagine how much you car would cost if liberals made competition illegal in the auto industry.[/quote]

There are more than 2000 health insurance providers = more than 2000 CEO's and golden parachutes. And lots of special interest money to members of congress and lobbyists.

And a tremendous amount of bureaucracy with over 2000 providers.

This is competitive?

actually the liberals made health care competition illegal. Now you know why it is so expensive and in need of capitalist reform.

Imagine what would happen to the price and quality of autos if the liberals made competition illegal??

 

[merrill]

The most significant way to make health care affordable is to make it competitive. Imagine how much you car would cost if liberals made competition illegal in the auto industry.

There are more than 2000 health insurance providers = more than 2000 CEO's and golden parachutes. And lots of special interest money to members of congress and lobbyists.

And a tremendous amount of bureaucracy with over 2000 providers.

This is competitive?

actually the liberals made health care competition illegal. Now you know why it is so expensive and in need of capitalist reform.

Imagine what would happen to the price and quality of autos if the liberals made competition illegal??[/QUOTE]

Again a non rebuttal.

 

[merrill]

Why does health insurance cost so much?

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Health insurers have forced consumers to pay billions of dollars in medical bills that the insurers themselves should have paid, according to a report released yesterday by the staff of the Senate Commerce Committee.

At a committee hearing yesterday, three health-care specialists testified that insurers go to great lengths to avoid responsibility for sick people, use deliberately incomprehensible documents to mislead consumers about their benefits, and sell "junk" policies that do not cover needed care. Rockefeller said he was exploring "why consumers get such a raw deal from their insurance companies."

The star witness at the hearing was a former public relations executive for major health insurers whose testimony boiled down to this: Don't trust the insurers.

"The industry and its backers are using fear tactics, as they did in 1994, to tar a transparent and accountable -- publicly accountable -- health-care option," said Wendell Potter, who until early last year was vice president for corporate communications at the big insurer Cigna.

Insurers make paperwork confusing because "they realize that people will just simply give up and not pursue it" if they think they have been shortchanged, Potter said.

More on this story:
Senate Panel Hears of ‘Raw Deal' Consumers Get From Health Insurers


Did anyone get a refund yet?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Again a non rebuttal.

dear, if you say its a non rebuttal you must say why its a non rebuttal or simply admit to being too confused to say.

 

[merrill]

Again a non rebuttal.

dear, if you say its a non rebuttal you must say why its a non rebuttal or simply admit to being too confused to say.

How in the world did anyone make competition illegal?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Again a non rebuttal.

dear, if you say its a non rebuttal you must say why its a non rebuttal or simply admit to being too confused to say.

How in the world did anyone make competition illegal?

You may have noticed that you cant buy health insurance across state lines. This is because the brilliant liberal mind made it illegal.

Imagine how expensive your car would be if each state demanded a particular kind of car or two. Most manufactures would sell a limited number of very expensive cars in a few states, but the national and international competition would be gone, price would skyrocket and quality would plunge.

Now you see how the liberals ruined the industry. If you took your idea about private savings accounts and then allowed national competition too, the price of medical care would be cut in half at least, and the quality would shoot up 1000 times. Why, we might all live forever, but we won't find out until we lift the liberal soviet yoke from our backs.

 

[Gadawg73]

How is the Bush Prescription Drug Plan "competitive"?

Now over 65% of all prescription drugs are paid for by the government.
Before Bush it was 20%.
Blank check health care has never been a Republican/Democrat thing.
Name one Republican that has cut Medicare.
Republicans do not have the balls either to cut government health care spending on Medicare, the fastest out of control growing government probgram.25-30% of Medicare spending is fraud and waste.

 

[Gadawg73]

dear, if you say its a non rebuttal you must say why its a non rebuttal or simply admit to being too confused to say.

How in the world did anyone make competition illegal?

You may have noticed that you cant buy health insurance across state lines. This is because the brilliant liberal mind made it illegal.

Imagine how expensive your car would be if each state demanded a particular kind of car or two. Most manufactures would sell a limited number of very expensive cars in a few states, but the national and international competition would be gone, price would skyrocket and quality would plunge.

Now you see how the liberals ruined the industry. If you took your idea about private savings accounts and then allowed national competition too, the price of medical care would be cut in half at least, and the quality would shoot up 1000 times. Why, we might all live forever, but we won't find out until we lift the liberal soviet yoke from our backs.

You know, you really are a dumb ass.
The individual states have restricted the sale of insurance with each state having THE INSURANCE COMPANIES lobbying to keep it that way.
Every elected official in Georgia in power now could change that and they would all be REPUBLICANS.
You do not know shit about the health insurance industry. I own 3 corporations and deal with it every day.
Go back and play in your sand box with the small fry.

 

[Gadawg73]

Anyone with a day in the business world knows that the real reason health insurance is not sold across state lines is because the insurance industry likes things the way they are now. They claim they are protecting the consumer but they are practicing market protectionism.
Insurance companies DETEST competition. The insurance lobby have bought state Legislatures into "believing" that consumers benefit from each state having their own insurance regulations barring them from buying a legally recognized commodity in another state.
All a Legislature has to do is pass a law in any state to allow the buying and selling of insurance across their individual state's lines.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

How is the Bush Prescription Drug Plan "competitive"?

Now over 65% of all prescription drugs are paid for by the government.
Before Bush it was 20%.
Blank check health care has never been a Republican/Democrat thing.
Name one Republican that has cut Medicare.
Republicans do not have the balls either to cut government health care spending on Medicare, the fastest out of control growing government probgram.25-30% of Medicare spending is fraud and waste.

of course thats not true. Any Republican plan will have numerous free market incentives in it like HSA's, but to get elected in a growing liberal country you need indpendent and Democratic votes so Republicans don't push too hard.

If they did push clearly and hard they would be impotent like the Libertarians. Its called politics.
Most importantly, 100% of the free market energy is in the Republican party.

 

[Gadawg73]

How is the Bush Prescription Drug Plan "competitive"?

Now over 65% of all prescription drugs are paid for by the government.
Before Bush it was 20%.
Blank check health care has never been a Republican/Democrat thing.
Name one Republican that has cut Medicare.
Republicans do not have the balls either to cut government health care spending on Medicare, the fastest out of control growing government probgram.25-30% of Medicare spending is fraud and waste.

of course thats not true. Any Republican plan will have numerous free market incentives in it like HSA's, but to get elected in a growing liberal country you need indpendent and Democratic votes so Republicans don't push too hard.

If they did push clearly and hard they would be impotent like the Libertarians. Its called politics.
Most importantly, 100% of the free market energy is in the Republican party.

Your heart is in the right place but you do not know shit about the insurance industry.
Insurance legislation IS A STATE ISSUE dude.
Go out and educate yourself to what is going on. Each state has an insurance commissioner.
There is NO Federal law banning the sale of insurance across state lines.
This has nothing to do with Democrat/Republican.
Do you think insurance lobby cares about any of that??
I deal with this everyday. We are close to getting it but it will come through the state legislatures.
What Federal Law mandated by liberals are you speaking of that bans the sale of insurance across state lines?
I will wait until hell freezes over for your answer.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Your heart is in the right place but you do not know shit about the insurance industry.

let's see

Insurance legislation IS A STATE ISSUE dude.

sadly for you The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)is Federal.

Go out and educate yourself to what is going on. Each state has an insurance commissioner.
There is NO Federal law banning the sale of insurance across state lines.

JURIST - Feature: Health Care Reformjurist.org/feature/2011/06/health-care-reform.phpCached
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Comprehensive health care reform was passed by Congress in March 2010 after .... legislation that would create an interstate Health Care Compact (HCC) that, .... federal law makes it illegal to purchase health insurance across state lines.

This has nothing to do with Democrat/Republican.

of course it does. Republicans want capitalist health care, while Democrats don't, obviously!!

Do you think insurance lobby cares about any of that??

the insurance lobby , no, but that was not our subject was it????

I deal with this everyday. We are close to getting it but it will come through the state legislatures.
What Federal Law mandated by liberals are you speaking of that bans the sale of insurance across state lines?
I will wait until hell freezes over for your answer.

sadly, you have the address above.

 

[Gadawg73]

Your heart is in the right place but you do not know shit about the insurance industry.

let's see

Insurance legislation IS A STATE ISSUE dude.

sadly for you The Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)is Federal.




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of course it does. Republicans want capitalist health care, while Democrats don't, obviously!!

Do you think insurance lobby cares about any of that??

the insurance lobby , no, but that was not our subject was it????

I deal with this everyday. We are close to getting it but it will come through the state legislatures.
What Federal Law mandated by liberals are you speaking of that bans the sale of insurance across state lines?
I will wait until hell freezes over for your answer.

sadly, you have the address above.

You are about as lost as a blind puppy.
CURRENT law health insurance is a mandate of the states.
BEFORE Obamacare NO health insurance could be sold across state lines.
Why do you play like you are ignorant and stupid?

 

[Greenbeard]

Comprehensive health care reform was passed by Congress in March 2010 after .... legislation that would create an interstate Health Care Compact (HCC) that, .... federal law makes it illegal to purchase health insurance across state lines.

Federal law does not make it illegal to purchase health insurance across state lines.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

You are about as lost as a blind puppy.
CURRENT law health insurance is a mandate of the states.

JURIST - Feature: Health Care Reformjurist.org/feature/2011/06/health-care-reform.phpCached
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Comprehensive health care reform was passed by Congress in March 2010 after .... legislation that would create an interstate Health Care Compact (HCC) that, .... federal law makes it illegal to purchase health insurance across state lines.[/SIZE]

BEFORE Obamacare NO health insurance could be sold across state lines.

yes according to state law as site above proves. Sorry

Why do you play like you are ignorant and stupid?

now you know it pays to be cautious.

 

[scsinsurance1]

Studies reveals that human body costs of $300 crore according to this figure insurance is too less...

 

[Blueblood]

3 reasons why health care cost keep rising...............litigation,litigation,litigation

 

[melonsmartin]

My view is that we should ignore these factors, but I do not think lasting care prices accelerated close to accounting. I want to say yes, we should not neglect the tilt of the market incentives, which is mainly what we are doing.