I wrote the following in response to a news post, and I wanted to save it to refer back to later...
What do you think?
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1) Health care should be a common good, in the same way that roads, public education and defense is a common good. Denying treatment unless a person is dying is not American, it's just fucked up. If the rest of the industrialized world can take care of ALL of their citizens, even the poorest, then America can as well.
2) Health insurance companies must die. You're entirely missing the point when you defend them, or judge them, one against another.
Health insurance companies siphon off 1 out of every 3 dollars in our health care system to pay for bureaucracy, their own salaries and corporate profits. People are dying of cancer and it costs 1/3rd more to take care of them because of health insurance companies.
DIG ON THIS MATH...
America's healthcare premium: 40% - (we pay 40% more than anyone else in the world, for crummier outcomes, but that's another story)
Insurance companies cut of healthcare dollars: 35% - they take over a third of the cash/costs and what value do they exactly add?
So, if the second most expensive healthcare system in the world cost $1.00, and America's healthcare bill was $1.40, we could actually reduce this bill to 91 cents by simply removing the health insurance companies.
Of course, that math assumes NO ONE is needed to oversee anything, but you get the point. Kill the health insurance companies and we again are competitive with the rest of the world's health care costs.
Please stop defending these companies, stop buying the hype. Health insurance companies are just a massive tape worm in the gut of our health care system. It's time to unplug their life support. The entire industry needs to be dis-intermediated and removed from the doctor/patient loop.
I'd like to add another group that must end, the health care administrations...By the time we pay for administration of Medicaid, Medicare, VA, K-Chip... blah, blah, blah. We could have afforded the f-ing healthcare instead! I don't care whatr they call a system that covers the people who need care to recieve it. But why do they have to call and administrer it seperately? What a FUCKING WASTE OF MONEY.
I agree with you Chuck. I am on disability now since I rear end a semi in May of 07. I used up all my saving on health insurance for my little boy and I through Athem/Blueshield. It was a little over a $1,000.00 a month if you weren't working.It sucks really bad that the price is so high for health insurance.
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chuck