Will This Help America Or Hurt America? Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

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October 26, 2009 C-SPAN

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[ReliableInsider]

With government handling the insurance aspect that doesn't put government in charge of my doctor's office or the local hospital.

Any more than my insurance company runs my doctor's office now.

He just sees them as bureaucratic harassers constantly trying not to pay his bills with the result that he has to be on the phone talking to insurance company paper pushers and filling out forms all day instead of practicing medicine.

[ReliableInsider]

It hasn't worked, though.

Free markets work in 99.9% of all situations. They don't work in this case. The truth is we all want the same product. We all want decent coverage of whatever legitimate bills our doctor or hospital comes up with.

So the insurance company doesn't really serve any purpose.

We might as well just put all our money in a big pot and just pay the medical bills that are legitimate and non-fraudulent.

[helltrackrider]

agree 100%...but, why are they this way...why do they have so much power?

Our government puts the limitations on the people and vague limitations on large corporations b/c these same corporations throw big parties and are very charitable around election time...

so, the answer...take the limitation off me and you...let US decide what WE want to pay for....the prices go down and the quality has no choice but to go up due to competition.

Government is the last resort answer...always.

[ReliableInsider]

We've got to stand up as a people to the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies who are holding us hostage and threatening to "pull the plug on grandma" if we don't pay up.

Insurance companies and deluge doctors with paperwork and focused on denying legitimate claims and fighting with sick patients over what will and will not be covered. Americans deserve better.

[ReliableInsider]

Our far right-wing Republican U.S. Supreme Court will undoubtedly be asked to rule on the constitutionality because the GOP has devolved from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Foot-dragging.

And, undoubtedly, they will find it perfectly constitutional.

If we don't address the health care crisis the current system has created, the country will go bankrupt. That's a national security issue.

Everybody else has affordable health care. America is smart enough to accomplish that too.

[ReliableInsider]

Private insurers have become what Republicans claim to fear: the bureaucrat standing between you and your doctor. They serve no purpose.

"Competition" has mostly consisted of rejecting customers who have "pre-existing conditions" or raising premiums on customers when they get sick in order to "compete" to have the healthiest customer base. And spending millions on advertising and lobbying. All of which benefits no one.

[ReliableInsider]

What we've found is that private sector insurance companies really haven't found a way to "add value" to the basic service they provide. The doctor writes a prescription. The insurer sends a check. It's not that complicated. So they really aren't doing anything to justify the 20-30% overhead they are skimming from the premiums we pay.

It will be much less expensive simply to have a system a Single-Payer system like the rest of the world does.

[Bezwaar123]

From what I understand about American healthcare, people can buy insurance only within state lines. Sounds like a crazy piece of legislation caused that.

North Dakota's (and indeed the other states) would benefit greatly if people could buy healthcare from any state in the country. Costs would have to go down in order for companies to compete.

You're not limited to buying food from your state - why should you be limited to where you can buy healthcare?

[helltrackrider]

Medicare sucks...are you kidding me?

It has cost 10+ times more than they expect, their is fraud everywhere, and they dont pay the doctors full bill so in turn the hospitals have to charge working class citizens more for their bill.

Rasmussen Polls:

57% - would raise Healthcare cost

53% - decrease quality of care

45% - support the plan

23% - strongly in favor

40% - strongly dissaprove

18% - will reduce cost

All numbers aside, it is still Unconstituional and we cant afford it

[ReliableInsider]

I think the only reason there are still some people who oppose a public option is that they think it's something foreign and strange. The reality is just the opposite. A public option is not something foreign and strange. We already have it. It's called Medicare.

And it works fine.