Public Option

30 second commercial entry for Organizing for America's Health Reform Video Challenge

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• Health Care
• Public Option

[4lifejackhammer]

real competition would be eliminating the state lines for health insurance. Right now, each company has only a few competitors. Now, eliminate the lines, for economic purposes. They have people in other states they can try to take. Instead of simply adding one unfair firm, you would add several potential competitors. The way economics work, they must reduce premium prices.

[4lifejackhammer]

further, the barriers needed to be overcome with the AMA to become a medical school is vast. Why? Don't we have licensing programs to ensure most "bad doctors" don't make it to the field? Why create that extra hurtle.

[4lifejackhammer]

The AMA does, though, legislate for higher standards. Now, that seems good, except when people need doctors and can't afford them because they are too few. The real trick is more medical schools; and, making it that the medical boards of states (who always have AMA people on it) only hand out licenses, and not a limited amount. same standards at the end, but experiment on how to get there. The restriction of lisenses reduces possibility of doctorhood.

[4lifejackhammer]

thank you, i needed that. States do issue liscenses. AMA handles the education of doctors, and acts as a regulator. The best "regulator" though, in practicality, is malpractice. The more people you screw up on, the easier it is to mount a case. The AMA doesn't do as much to police doctors as it does to plea for Doctors; which is constitutionally fine and all. But, why must all Doctor's learn family medicine?

[4lifejackhammer]

i would rather cut both taxes and spending. Cutting just one, the taxes, does not really help. And, another example of how embracing one politician cannot help. Oh, and don't forget, he's the one that started the whole "abandon capitalism to save capitalism" crap.

[4lifejackhammer]

adding government is not competition. government does not have to earn profit. The eventual domino effect would ruin private insurance. Which, as pigs go, might be alright, except then we only have 1 insurance company, which does not suffer the effects of failure. You may get new faces, but they are as unaccountable in the end as the last faces. They will still get big pensions for however they do.

[4obaba]

Again the AMA does not issue licences. Half the doctors don't even belong to the AMA. Google man, google. Remember the old Russian proverb, "trust but verify" (no, Reagan didn't come up with that on his own). Please verify, then we can argue more intelligently!

[4obaba]

Doctors' fees are around 15% of the total medical costs. By the way, the AMA doesn't issue licenses. The individual states do. Please, man, check your facts. Get educated beyond your High School diploma. You sound intelligent, but, it takes more than the ability to calculate quicker than the average person. You also need verifiable facts to work with.

[4obaba]

Yep, like Medicare. Do you hear old folks complaining. Would you rather sped the money to for tax cuts for the rich, like Bush did? Listen to your "moral incentive".

[4obaba]

I thought competition was what you were exulting. Why are you so against the public option? Check it out. Public Option is competition with the Private pigs who profit from human suffering....