****Cavuto even dismissed the ‘Death Panels’ comment because life or death decisions are made by insurance companies now****
My problem in fully understanding this debate stems from the fact that we are not operating in a purely capitalistic manner regarding the insurance companies because of governmental interference in the marketplace.
Were insurance companies so disregarding clients wishes that it became necessary for the government to intervene, or did government intervene unnecessarily in lieu of a marketplace solution? Or did insurance lobbyists press for more regulations that increased revenue?
Who pushed for and set up the current rulebook that determines how the insurance companies operate? Are these life and death decisions being made because insurers are providing fairly for what the consumer is paying for minus the governmental economic marketplace distortions?
I think I agree with you. The private health insurance companies are largely regulated and socialized now, as opposed to auto-insurance that is allowed to charge you based on risk including statistic based risk. When democrats say that health insurance companies shouldnt be able to discriminate against some for being sick they are making a case for forced redistribution from the healthy to the already sick. Maryland did the same with homeowners insurance.
The problem with the ‘death panels’ is that seniors already are on socialized medicine depending on the young, many of who dont have their own insurance, to pay for it. (This is because seniors are mobilized and the young are clueless and too lazy to understand how it all plays together.)