Re: Health insurance

Just Cocky wrote: 
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:45:13 -0500, nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bill wrote:


I've read, however, that Bush will propose something on this in the State
of the Union - perhaps with regard to pre-existing conditions.

I am skeptical about ANYTHING that is going to come from Bush.
Up to now, the fact that he is interested only in his political sponsors at any cost should be obvious for anyone. I was a pro-republican before Bush
first term :-( 

So, if Bush propose something read the fine prints. I believe it is going to
be something that hurt the middle class in order to provide more money to
top 5 percent.

There are a couple of issues with health insurance system:

- preconditions. There must be a provision in law to prevent any look at a
person precondition to deny or increase his coverage.

- affordability for unemployed. When a person is unemployed, he must have
the coverage as before for a rate he can afford from the money he get from
unemployment insurance or welfare.

- affordability for everybody. Even people working for WalMart or McDonalds
must be able to afford health care as needed.

- do not create artificially handicaps for employers. A manufacturing
company having workers here have to pay a lot for health insurance, if they
move production in China they avoid these costs. An intelligent system for health coverage and pension system MUST take this issue in consideration and
charge companies the same for health care and retirement regardless if they
employ workers here or in China. This way, you eliminate an unfair
advantage a company have when offshore jobs.



Basically, you want guaranteed access to healthcare services, whether
you can afford them or not. Yeap, you are a socialist alright!


Doctors take a solemn oath to treat anyone requiring care. If a doctor feels the need to practice discriminatory pricing to maximize his or her utility/profits, shouldn't that doctor be free to do so? Indeed, this was once the case in North America -- doctors charged the poor little, if anything, for services and charged the wealthy more to subsidize his treating the poor.

I don't think this makes anyone a socialist.

Mike
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