The Mendacity of Legislators, Part Two.

[jonfmorse]

The health care debate rages on, and still I watch the news and want to throw up. We've got this brilliant plan to force everyone to have insurance which doesn't even stop to consider the question of who exactly it is that doesn't already have insurance

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[schquee]

Well said. This should be posted everywhere.

[kenshi]

All it makes me throw up a little in my mouth to say it, I completely agree with this. Full-blown socialized medicine would be better than what these idiots are currently proposing.

[jonfmorse]

Believe me, I'm still shaken by the revelation. But then again... we all concede socialism is clearly less onerous than communism. Well, hijacking the people's wealth to concentrate it in the hands of private business is to capitalism as communism is to socialism.

In fact, I think we even have a word for the sort of government which leans that far to the right. Now if only I could think of it...

[brigid_eire]

i saw a secret picture of Obama as Hitler and i believe it now

[vistillia]

Thank you!!!!!

My honest gut feeling has been to make insurance a not for profit business. Take the goal off of making money for shareholders and onto the patients and clients. Put the extra money made into secure investments so they have the money to pay for those who need care. I would radically say I am even okay with the hospitals going not for profit as well. I will gladly take the pay cut to stop seeing folks who wait until health problems that could have been treated effectively with preventive care show up dying because the 35 year old ignored some chest pain because he didn't have insurance. That heart attack cost us a whole lot more. Both in money and in the loss of a life.

[jonfmorse]

Just to be clear, I in no way place the blame or burden for this on people who work in the health care industry. One can still be very well-paid while working for a non-profit, seeing as how the "profit" part comes after the payroll part.

[fixit]

The government is too broke to actually put the effort and money into fixing the actual problem, which isn't insurance, it's the fucking industry as a whole. Putting the burden of fixing it into a for-profit sector? Worst decision EVER! And all through this whole goddamn hooplah all I can hear is the Republican majority bitching about how government regulation of this whole idea is bad for business? GOOD! That industry could use some fat-trimming, and a whole lot more watch-dogging. When two people with the exact same condition who get the exact same treatment pay two different costs for the exact same procedure because of the insurance each carries, that's WRONG. When more effective drugs are bypassed for more prolific, better-marketed drugs because the pharm companies won't produce a competing chemical, that's WRONG. And if you think insurance companies are going to fix that, you're dead wrong.

Yes, I'm as disgusted as you are about the whole thing.

[jonfmorse]

Yep. Both sides of the aisle are equally to blame for this (and, being frank about it, equally in health care's pocket).