01-04-2010, 08:45 AM
Hi,
I agree with you, the private health insurance sector has failed. Making that failed system the foundation of the new, government mandated system, does not seem a promising plan. The one ray of hope is that the wall against socialized medicine in this country will have been, ever so slightly, breached. That may make it possible, when this bloated plan explodes, to generate a better version. My greatest fears on this issue are that this plan may be only a slight failure, and drag on for years, or that the failure of this plan will result in a backlash against socialized medicine instead of an awareness that the failure was because only a half-hearted attempt had been made.
--Pete
The Beatles? Hmmm, wasn't there a rock group by that name that was wiped out when a giant rolling stone impacted the Earth? Back about the time dinosaurs ruled IBM?
Quote:I don't really care whether health care is paid for by government or private insurance, just so long as it's not creating injustice. You feel that the government will fail, I feel the private sector has already failed.Unfortunately, what seems to be coming out of the witch's brew is the worse of all possible worlds. The insurance companies not only are not being eased out of the loop, their position in the loop is being augmented. There isn't a real health care reform in the works, just a mandated health insurance scheme which, between government incompetence and private sector greed, will probably decrease the quantity and quality of health care for all while greatly increasing the cost.
I agree with you, the private health insurance sector has failed. Making that failed system the foundation of the new, government mandated system, does not seem a promising plan. The one ray of hope is that the wall against socialized medicine in this country will have been, ever so slightly, breached. That may make it possible, when this bloated plan explodes, to generate a better version. My greatest fears on this issue are that this plan may be only a slight failure, and drag on for years, or that the failure of this plan will result in a backlash against socialized medicine instead of an awareness that the failure was because only a half-hearted attempt had been made.
--Pete
The Beatles? Hmmm, wasn't there a rock group by that name that was wiped out when a giant rolling stone impacted the Earth? Back about the time dinosaurs ruled IBM?
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?