So..making insurance useless in most cases will fix it?
Your blanket comment about government mismanaging and making things far more costly is more lemming like then the mentality of someone drawn to a single payer system. Why do countries that have that system now keep costs lower than the current private system in the U.S.?
I'd love to see some numbers on that and really study it apples to apples. I think part of the reason that governments might actually be able to do it cheaper (if that is the case) is that the insurance industry is one of the few that is more wasteful and inefficient than the government. It's a terrible operation that is essentially just taking our money, skimming off profit and operational costs and then paying our bills for us. If someone proposed that system for groceries, we'd laugh them out the door.
But...yes - making insurance useless in many cases would be a good thing, in my opinion. If you think about how mucn money is spend by you and your employer on health insurance to pay for daily things, you might start to see it my way. It's hard to believe that someone couldn't get a high deductible policy for true medical emergencies and not be able to manage their personal health care with the $500 or so per month that is spent on their insurance premiums. Go in and pay in cash for doctor visits and routine/daily stuff and save/invest the rest. It HAS to be cheaper than what we're doing now.
The only people we should try to get even with...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I'd love to see some numbers on that and really study it apples to apples. I think part of the reason that governments might actually be able to do it cheaper (if that is the case) is that the insurance industry is one of the few that is more wasteful and inefficient than the government. It's a terrible operation that is essentially just taking our money, skimming off profit and operational costs and then paying our bills for us. If someone proposed that system for groceries, we'd laugh them out the door.
But...yes - making insurance useless in many cases would be a good thing, in my opinion. If you think about how mucn money is spend by you and your employer on health insurance to pay for daily things, you might start to see it my way. It's hard to believe that someone couldn't get a high deductible policy for true medical emergencies and not be able to manage their personal health care with the $500 or so per month that is spent on their insurance premiums. Go in and pay in cash for doctor visits and routine/daily stuff and save/invest the rest. It HAS to be cheaper than what we're doing now.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
It's kind of sad, when you think about it.
(That's not to say we don't have our problems with the Canadian system.)