yeah, right
Posted on 04/29/2008 6:15:15 AM PDT by stockpirate
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is proposing a greater federal commitment to people without health insurance on Tuesday, suggesting that it help funds states to set up non-profit risk pools to help Americans who are denied coverage or can’t afford it.
McCain’s health-policy experts provided a ballpark estimate of $7 billion a year for the new federal commitment.
“Cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance would … be a crucial step in ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations, and the dominance in the market of only a few insurance companies,” McCain says in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday morning in Tampa, Fla.
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“Cooperation among states in the purchase of insurance would … be a crucial step in ridding the market of both needless and costly regulations ..."
I have no problem with this.
yeah, right
non-profit risk pools
We’re so screwed....
You aren't thinking - anything that costs 7 billion to start is not going to decrease regulation!
Now there will be an entirely new group of people and agencies to administer that and tossing in unlimited federal money is not a free market principle.
It is simply socialism wrapped up in the thorny underbrush of the English language.
With the amount of uninsured people, there is not going to be any cheap way around this. It’s gonna cost some bucks. At least until somebody caps medical and pharmacy costs along with tort reform.
I’m sitting back waiting to see who is VP pick is and honestly unless he picks a true Conservative.... I can’t vote for him.
Oh, really? LOL!
Don’t count on it. McCain continues to demonstrate that an arrogance that he doesn’t need the Conservative vote.
I don’t either. As an insurance agent for 20 plus years, states have had a pool for auto and home insurance. Why not health insurance? If you want to play in the race for health insurance, at least allow ‘uninsurables’ to purchase too. Higher cost, but better than nothing. If you have cancer (as my mom did) and you have insurance through job for lower group rate (as my mom did) and you have to quit your job because of said cancer (as my mom did) and lose Cobra after the reassignment period, you are screwed. Luckily my dad had Champus from retirement in the military, but I don’t know what would have happened if she didn’t and all those who don’t have that option.
“It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. “The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer’s goods for his consumption.”
The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern “maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets.” But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. “Market exchange,” says Mises, “is only a sham.”
Mises’s account is confirmed by a remarkable book that appeared in 1939, published by Vanguard Press in New York City (and unfortunately out of print today). It is The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism by Guenter Reimann, then a 35-year old German writer. Through contacts with German business owners, Reimann documented how the “monster machine” of the Nazis crushed the autonomy of the private sector through onerous regulations, harsh inspections, and the threat of confiscatory fines for petty offenses.
“Industrialists were visited by state auditors who had strict orders to examine the balance sheets and all bookkeeping entries of the company or individual businessman for the preceding two, three or more years until some error or false entry was found,” explains Reimann. “The slightest formal mistake was punished with tremendous penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error.”
Reimann quotes from a businessman’s letter: “You have no idea how far state control goes and how much power the Nazi representatives have over our work. The worst of it is that they are so ignorant. These Nazi radicals think of nothing except ‘distributing the wealth.’ Some businessmen have even started studying Marxist theories, so that they will have a better understanding of the present economic system.
“While state representatives are busily engaged in investigating and interfering, our agents and salesmen are handicapped because they never know whether or not a sale at a higher price will mean denunciation as a ‘profiteer’ or ‘saboteur,’ followed by a prison sentence. You cannot imagine how taxation has increased. Yet everyone is afraid to complain. Everywhere there is a growing undercurrent of bitterness. Everyone has his doubts about the system, unless he is very young, very stupid, or is bound to it by the privileges he enjoys.”
Fred turned McCain down. The way this looks, I won’t be able to vote for McCain.
I don't care if he resurrects Ronald Reagan as his VP, I can't vote for him.
- Frogmom, 20 year Arizona resident
It will probably be rolled into existing medicaid programs before all is said and done, which is really all that can be done to temporarily alleviate the uninsured problem. McCain is simply moving into Hillary territory and taking votes away from her.
So who are you voting for then, Obama or Hillary?
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