Re: Sharron Angle Attacks Autistic People

Sharron Angle was RIGHT.

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[w6p7a]

The fact is this forced servitude is driving up health care costs! If they force insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, the insurance companies will have no choice but to jack their premiums way up to cover these things! Also, factor in the amount that health providers are able to up their costs because they know the insurance companies have to cover them. Providers are not being forced to meet household demands and their consumers ability to pay, because of (cont.)

[w6p7a]

@w6p7a govt intervention and subsidization. THey can charge what they want because they know it will be covered no matter what. Market forces are non-existant in the health care industry. print money, devalue the dollar, pump it into the health care industry, costs go through the roof-not rocket science!

[AnimaniacsFanatic]

@w6p7a Exactly. Plus there's a total lack of price competition. This is, in part, due to the fact that employment is tied to insurance. The government provides a tax exemption for purchasing insurance through an employer, but no such thing for purchasing insurance individually. How fucked up is that? If you lose your job, you lose your insurance. If you hate your insurance, but want to keep your job, you're stuck with crappy service. It's a no-win situation.

[AnimaniacsFanatic]

@w6p7a We need to reform the tax code so that more people are capable of purchasing insurance individually (without having to tie it to their job). And we need to get rid of all the mandates and red tape that drive up costs. Another MAJOR step in the right direction (a reform that could be made in the next second) is to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. Then insurers will have no choice to compete quality/price-wise.

[AnimaniacsFanatic]

@w6p7a People should be able to buy whatever packages they want to buy, without the government interfering with their health care choices. The mandates force them to buy packages with items they don't even need, and that's just bullcrap. And you made a good point about inflation, too. The higher costs associated with the devaluation of the dollar only make it harder for the poor (especially those with fixed incomes) to afford insurance. NO MORE SUBSIDIES, which just distort market signals.

[AnimaniacsFanatic]

@w6p7a And does anybody even think about reforming the system so that make people can pay for more of their medical expenses out-of-pocket? There's a lot of work to be done in this area, to be sure (tax reform, regulatory overhaul, etc.), but one of the first steps in the right direction is health care MSAs. Let people save pre-tax dollars in these accounts. Why not? It wouldn't hurt, would it? Why are people so against this?

[AnimaniacsFanatic]

@w6p7a *no choice but to compete

[Hypernl]

I disagree on this because this rejects large groups of people of access to health care. I think that all basic healthcare should be covered by a basic health insurance service for everyone. And if the private health insurance companies do not offer this, then the government should. Healthcare is a basic human right and as such it is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Healthcare should be accessible for anyone, including the (chronically) ill and the disabled.

[w6p7a]

@jnick1980 We already covered that. Go back and read the prior comments.

[w6p7a]

@jnick1980 I am not going to cover all of that AGAIN.  Go back and read the prior comments.

[w6p7a]

@jnick1980 That is true. That is another factor to the increase in premiums. Most can't afford health care because of these flaws in the system. It has turned into a vicious cycle. The biggest problem that this country has is looking to the govt to fix problems that were CREATED by the govt!

[apx24]

Your whole argument is based on the idea that economic freedom and profit making are absolute ethical maxims. I'm British, and I believe that people have the right to have private healthcare, but to sacrifice the healthcare of the certain people so that others can make money is wrong. American conservatives are pro-life on things like abortion, but they are happy to put profit-making before the lives of their citizens in order to make money it seems.

[clearshquarter]

hmmm, health care should be free, people probably shouldnt be in the business of other peoples health, i feel like we could be beyond those terms by now? It's just that it gets so tricky! I wish business wasn't so big and faceless so we could allow for more complexity, the money spent on advertising seems like an incredible waste of money

[Evenor48]

If you have enough money for kill people, you need to have money to protect people. Is very stupid to invest in war before than in health.