Could this help Health Care?
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- tommyo0
So ukit,
In one breath you claim that both sides are corrupt, yet in another you want the same people to make decisions on your health...
Look don't get me wrong, health care is jacked up. But a public system, no thank you. We need more options than corporation vs government run. We need some new ideas. Luckily there is some common ground...
1. Doctors don't like being told how to treat their patients by insurance companies.
2. The insured don't like being told what treatments they can't get by insurance companies.
3. The uninsured don't like the cost structures of the insurance companies and some cannot afford it.
Seems like when you look at it this way then there is potential for better solutions. Here is an interesting article that talks about not-for profit state run insurance companies vs. big box insurance.. outcome: not-for profit didn't cost less than big box. Which should indicate that the costs are going to be there no matter if the gov runs it or a corp runs it, only difference here is that the gov can pull whatever it needs out of our pockets or just get more loans to cover it rather than insurance companies who (despite that evil word 'profits') actually do have competition. Also, since gov will cover everyone eventually, I'm not even sure which version of health care they're trying to push right now, but if you're talking about eventually having a 100% public system, then that's a LOT of cost that we're all going to be paying for in taxes (except for those below poverty line). So in the end you have big taxes (to a wasteful government) or big profits (going to greedy corporations). With the cost of social security estimated to be taking 40% of all taxes by 2020, how is gov planning on paying for public health care too??