Posted on 08/21/2019 6:42:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the government can force you to buy insurance, the insurance companies can force you to accept whatever they’ll give you. And make you pay whatever they feel like charging you.
This inevitably means you pay more -- and get less -- because there's no longer any market discipline to keep costs down and services high.
This is the nut of the problem with ObamaCare, which forces people to pay top dollar for coverage they may not need or want, while denying coverage for the things they do need.
For example, some of the “bundled” ObamaCare plans require single, middle-aged men without kids to pay for maternity coverage -- but won’t cover an emergency room visit that wasn’t “pre-approved or care provided by an “out of network” doctor.
Most of the time, these surprise medical bills can be avoided, but only if you’re not in a hurry. You can research which hospitals are in your network when you're arranging ahead of time for a physical or routine screening.
But what if you’re in a hurry? What if it's an emergency?
When you're on a gurney, taking an unexpected ride to a hospital, probably the last thing on your mind is whether the doctors who are going to treat you when you get there are "in network."
But it'll be on your mind later -- when you get the bill.
This business of surprise medical bills, which President Trump has been railing against, is a predictable consequence of government mismanaged (and mandated) health care. Which is both arbitrary -- and expensive.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The marketplace works.
Government needs to get out of the way.
I do not want or need incompetent and dishonest politicians involved in my health care.
For instance, Mitt R0mney is trying to save us all for uncertain doom with a tax, so why would any of us want to distract him from such important work by saddling him with health care?
If New York or California want socialized medicine - its completely within the power of these State Legislators and Governors to set up such a program, and tax their state population to pay for it. They have large majorities in all branches of state government, so politically, nothing is stopping them.
If you ask the question: “why haven’t they done that already?” You already are half-way to the answer on why they want to force it on the entire country.
That’s really the heart of it, isn’t it?
If the basic concept is a good concept, then NY or CA would have done it already.
It doesn’t work at the state level.
It doesn’t work at the national level.
Why do they push an idea that will not work? It’s about the redistribution of wealth, and it’s about forced dependency on government so that they can be tyrants.
Much of the nonsense about healthcare is based on false premises... the first is that people with health insurance are healthier than people who do not have health insurance. This is not true. Going to the doctor more frequently when there is nothing wrong with you does not make you any healthier, and in fact many times puts people at greater risk for a number of reasons. The primary reason is that doctors like to feel like they are doing something worthwhile so they tend to prescribe medications that are typically innocuous but sometimes harmful for conditions that would often resolve themselves. Look at the problem with prescribed pain killers for an example, and not just the people who are ODing on them. Over-using prescription pain killers is bad for your health even if you are not an addict.
Insurance is really meant to protect your assets. If you don’t have assets you do not need insurance. People in this country are not denied health care based on their ability to pay. Take a trip to any emergency room at any public hospital. In many places 90% of those being treated have no intention of ever paying anything, but don’t worry about the hospital they make it up by charging those who do pay and their insurance companies ridiculous sums of money for almost nothing.
Preventative health care really means eating appropriate amounts of healthy foods, exercising, and paying attention to your body. Going in for an occasional checkup is a good idea especially if you are older and weird crap is going on.
Obamacare is tax transfer scheme. It takes money from one person or group and gives it to another. In this case it hammers single men, young families, and older childless couples. It funds a sprawling bureaucracy, funds “free” health care many, Roberts was correct.
There is nothing wrong with Obamacare it seems to be working as it was designed. To increase the power of the state and create another Democrat constituency.
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If New York or California want socialized medicine - its completely within the power of these State Legislators and Governors to set up such a program, and tax their state population to pay for it. They have large majorities in all branches of state government, so politically, nothing is stopping them.
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I disagree it’s within their power; as much as I disagree public education is within their power.
A service is a service. It should, at all times, be paid by the user upon service(s) rendered.
It is THE epitome of Free Markets; each transaction agreed upon by all parties.
What authority gives govt the ability to tax for the sole purpose of supplying a service, whether it is needed/wanted...or not, FOREVER.
It is THEFT & compulsion. Antithesis of a FREE People & LIMITED govt.
I completely agree.
I think the point being made, however, is a little different.
IF government could provide quality healthcare ...
IF government had the power to do that ...
IF government had the right to do that ...
IF government-run healthcare were a viable idea in any way ...
Then a state like NY should just go ahead and wave their magic wand and make it so.
But NY hasn’t done it. California hasn’t done it.
Because it can’t be done.
It’s not a viable idea at the state level or at the national level.
I should say, theft or not - “its now within their practical power to impose it on their citizens.”
*thumbs up*
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I should say, theft or not - “its now within their practical power to impose it on their citizens.”
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Oh, but they damn well THINK it does & push to make it so, don’t they
Course, you have the (D)-lite RINO-care being proposed now too. Ain’t the Uniparty GRAND?!
Trump was supposed to be releasing his Health Care plan right about now. Let’s see what he is proposing.
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