[lentulusgracchus]

A collapse of medical insurance, in its entirety, is inevitable unless the will is found to make some simple (simple, not easy) changes.

Which is exactly what Bill and Hillary intended, when they turned the insurance companies loose by changing the law to allow insurance companies to buy PPO's and HMO's -- they knew that the insurance companies would simply fall on the medical-delivery system and gobble it up in an attempt to control costs.

They destroyed fee-for-service, in order to pave the way for British-style socialized medicine.

Yeah, that's what I want -- some guy like Huey Long in my life, holding my intravenous drip and reminding me how much I depend on him.

Rat-scum lowlifes.

[Mamzelle]

HMOs and PPOs were OK as far as they went, but they were "cherry pickers"-- they picked the lower cherries of costs savings, and that was the end of it. Then they got people sold on the idea of "free" office visits.

So silly--the office visit is about the only cheap thing in medical care.

What costs you isn't even that high-powered surgeon--it's the *operating room*! The infrastructure of the hospital--and the costs aren't just increasing, they are ZOOMING.

[Jim Noble]

You are correct, of course-but why should I buy health insurance now when I know the government is about to start stealing money from young workers to give it to me for nothing?