trying to mold public opinion into hillarycare. beware these types of articles.
If you want medical insurance, you pay for it out of your pocket, just like you pay for homeowners insurance and car insurance.
This would also help older people get jobs - employers would not have to look at the potential medical expense involved with hiring someone in their fifties or sixties, all they would have to worry about is if the person could do the job.
As a person in his fifties, I worry about this all the time.
Health care became a problem when the responsibility moved from the individual to the Government or an Insurance provider.
It cannot be fixed. The healthcare system in America will have to blow up first.
Ever since the federal government institutionalized risk back in the 1930s, the number of entitlement programs has grown...and now they are just too big to control.
Health care has to get back to the wallet - yours and mine - not the government's.
When a liberal says "confront", they mean "pay for".
Yep, extremely one-sided. The union hacks pay ZERO for caviar grade healthcare with no out of pockets at all. Nobody outside the rust belt assembly lines has that kind of coverage anymore. If they ran that story, you would see support for the "poor oppressed" workers fall to nuthin'.
What we have is a crises of expectation. Everyone expects that at the first sign of illness all the powers of science will come to bear on the problem and fix it at no cost. But like most things there is an economy of medicine.
Well, I know a way to have plummeting health care costs.... In The American Spectator a while back, there was an article that said over a couple of years BOTH LASIK eye surgery, AND plastic surgery had dropped in price, due to health insurance companies not paying for it. So, a reasonable idea would be that since people had to look for the cheapest one, the providers were doing it for less and less, so competition ensued. SOunds like a good idea.
I want the United States Government to STOP PLAYING NANNY!
They have no business in health care, no business telling people to wear seat-belts, no business telling people what they can/can not ingest, no business providing a living for the laziest among us, no business supporting illegals in this Country.
Our Government is out of Control. They are removong the Rights of the People.
This is an utterly disingenuous argument, for it doesn't account for the fact that more Toyotas are produced in the U.S. than ever before -- and only something like 5 out of 17 major Toyota plants are located in Japan.
Since 2000, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's authoritative survey, healthcare premiums for family coverage have increased by 59%, six times faster than inflation.
The first step in addressing this "problem" is to use the proper terms when discussing it. The phrase "Healthcare premiums" is meaningless, because it doesn't accurately describe what is being discussed here. The issue is medical insurance premiums, and the crux of the so-called "crisis" is not the quality medical care, administrative costs, competition, etc. -- it's the fact that any financial transaction involving a third party (an insurance company, for example) is bound to be inefficient, costly, poorly-executed, etc. The normal relationships between supply, demand, and price do not apply in a transaction where the buyer and seller don't deal with each other directly.
All of the proposed solutions to this "crisis" are really nothing more than window dressing.
UAW expects the taxpayers to pay as punishment for buying Japanese cars. As far as high insurance costs driving up uninsured, in Maryland we have :1) a tax on each hospital bill to pay for people on welfare , 2) a tax HMO premiums to pay for malpractice settlements. MD Democrats put these on (over a veto)to destroy the current system so we cry for socialized medicine.
I saw 'Ron Brownstein' as the author and that told me everything I needed to know..