Video Contest Entry #3: Whistle Option

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[Twister051]

An EXCELLENT video; easily understood and short and to the point.

However, it's too late. The MORONS that the liberal MORONS put in power just pushed Obama-care through this morning.

Hey, all you liberal fools, please don't come crying to me when they pull the plug on your mom because she's expendable. And, yes, you're smoking crack if you think that rationing of health care won't become reality.

[intensity123]

GOVERNMENT is the problem with private insurance as it is today!!!!! The entire health industry needs to be completely deregulated. Take care of your body and get your medicines from the pharmacist on the competitive open market. Start a small savings account for typical medical needs and buy catastrophic injury/illness insurance. People want to eat shit and sit on their fat asses for 50 yrs and then complain about how expensive medical coverage is! It's expensive because you're likely to useit!

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer Thanks for specifying that. And for the laugh, that's pretty hilarious. "Unfair advantage". lmao.

Look, you can visit free clinics, you can get birth control and plan B pills for free from planned parenthood (which are very costly), you can get free food through food stamps. Yet the majority still pays for this stuff on their own, even the poor.

It's not that difficult to set a maximum income requirement to use public option, just like financial aid. No one's going outta business.

[ElJefer]

@wildbloodydragon That wasn't the argument, perhaps I didn't specify. The argument was that lowering the price through government subsidization creates an unfair advantage when compared to companies that lower their prices using their own money.

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer No, not at all.

The argument was that being subsidized allows these companies to be cheaper, therefore they will steal away the majority of private insurance customers.

Price difference was the concern.

Accept it or not, my counter puts that argument to rest, completely.

Saying that government subsidized health insurance is bad because taxpayers have to pay for it, is a completely separate, new argument, obviously. I can counter that one as well, if you wish.

[ElJefer]

@wildbloodydragon It's different because they are lowering the price at using money from their pockets vs lowering price using taxpayer money

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer I don't need to find any examples of that.

To the customer, the real difference between subsidized and non-subsidized is the price.

With the large difference in the price of major insurance companies versus these smaller ones, the smaller ones are effectively no different from subsidized companies to the customer.

[ElJefer]

@wildbloodydragon We were talking about companies subsidized by the government vs companies not subsidized by the government, but you used Access and Explorer vs Geico, etc. That would be non-subsidized vs non-subsidized, right? Do you have examples of subsidized vs non-subsidized?

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer You shouldn't have. I didn't suggest that they are. Your research didn't suggest that they are. The logical conclusion would be to assume the opposite of what you did.

The point was, no matter how much cheaper the alternative insurance may be (with subsidy or without), big private insurance companies will still remain highly profitable.

[ElJefer]

@wildbloodydragon I assumed that because I thought that's what you meant when you responded to my question of whether there are subsidized companies that don't crowd out competition

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer And no, they're service is OK, but far from the best. But since my priority was price, I chose them. Unlike the majority, who obviously don't see it my way.

They stuck to more expensive car insurance companies despite the existence of these really cheap ones. This is what will happen with health insurance as well. No one is suddenly going out of business just because there is a cheaper option.

[wildbloodydragon]

@ElJefer Hah, looks like you're attacking a straw man now. You looked for a connection that doesn't exist. They are private companies, not subsidized by the government in any way.

Funny how even after research and failing to find any evidence indicating government subsidy, you still assumed they are subsidized. LOL.

Goes you show the flawed logic people with your kind of mindset possess.