3 Responses to “What Is Obama’s Health Care Proposition About?”

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   Freespir said on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 17:36

   Here is a link that explains it in pretty good detail, in terminology that is easier to understand. Please form your own opinions rather then listening to what others perceive to mean. Many are not researching themselves and only going by what they are hearing and/or their own personal opinion.
   Just click on the state you are currently residing in.
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   Kongfuci said on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 20:42

   just need to look at some facts.
   1. USA does not have the greatest healthcare in the world regardless of what some people tell you from their mountain top.
   2. Some huge corporations are making record profits at someone elses expense.
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   ? Controlled Enthusiasm? ~***~ said on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 21:46

   The is a difference between a right to health care (which, everyone has -anyone can go to an emergency room for treatment and not get turned away due to lack of money or insurance. It’s the law.) and health insurance. Health insurance is not a right but an option. Health insurance was created to help in case of a medical catastrophe.
   Health care insurance is not a right. And you can shop around for a plan that works for you. (Not just stay with whatever your employer offers.)
   The 50 million figure given by Obama on how many people that do not have health insurance has been proven repeatedly to be horribly, horribly false. It’s closer to 10 million. Why would you deny over 90% of the population their individual freedom and liberty to address the 10%?
   People neglect the Unconstitutional aspect of any public health plan legislation.
   People evade and ignore basic economic law that renders all of this improbably and impossible.
   People ignore that this is central planning.
   People witlessly assume that doctors and various practitioners are on-board with this due to the superiority of the system rather than understand it insulates them from competition and allows them to work at the bear minimum of standards.
   People fall prey to class envy, class warfare, and propaganda.
   Like so many other here, amusingly assume that the rising cost of insurance and health care is due to “greed” or “rich white business owners”. You couldn’t be further from the truth. The health care industry is one of the least competitive industries we have. It’s riddled with unions, restrictions, regulations, mandates, and control. Couple that with the fact that we’re living longer, we’re fatter, out of shape, and rely more and more on large-group policy so individual incentive is all but destroyed. The mentality is “Insurance will/should pay for it”.
   People want every conceivable visit and procedure covered under insurance, and since insurance is shared risk and shared cost, the prices go up and up and up as the providers have to pay for everything. Imagine how expensive your car or insurance would be if it paid for gas, tune ups, washes, tires, etc. Health insurance is no longer insurance, it’s full-coverage payments. Insurance is intended as protection from catastrophe.
   You’re attacking the results rather than the cause. What we need is reform for the absence and removal of government, not more government.
   Government can stop spending on everything else and still not have enough money to provide health care. There are a host of reasons for this. Primarily, you must understand that health care is a scarce resource like anything else in the world. You can no more provide everyone with everything they need at any given time than you could provide everyone with beach-front property. Demand will almost instantly exceed supply as now the individual is no longer self-governed by price. You invite lower skilled workers and poor-performing workers as now the incentive for business is lost – it’s now non-profit (on the backs of the tax payers). You can kiss high quality care, innovation, and technological and pharmaceutical advances goodbye.
   Throwing out the Constitution (which they already have), and some of the economic principles, just ask yourself this question:
   Would you rather a non-profit neurosurgeon operate on you who is paid regardless of the outcome, or would you prefer a for-profit neurosurgeon who’s very livelihood depends on the success of the procedure and “repeat business”?