Obama's Healthcare Logic Deficit: You Don't Spend Money to Save Money
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remotepc support
Obama's plan is to "restructure" our current system and spend money to ....
Conservatives ruin the economy every time
Do you expect us to take this hypocrisy seriously? You had eight years to fix the budget, but instead you created a global economic meltdown. For your information, health care and education are two things that improve society, so it doesn't surprise me that conservatives oppose them. They would rather waste our tax dollars on wars, prisons, and Wall St crooks. It will probably take decades to clean up the conservative economic mess.
A family budget is a bad example
The example to use is a new business. Everyone knows that if you start a business first you have to spend money. This is why business almost always loos money the first year. Right now the government is trying to start the economy back up. Of course that costs money. If it works it will bring in more revenue because everyone will be making more.
Health insurance is just another component of that we need a new competing endity that can be more efficent then the insurance companies. That shouldn't be hard to do but it will take start up costs. Staying with the insurance companies is like sitting down at a 99% payback machine in Las Vegas. It doesn't take long for all your money to be gone. Course the insurance companies are more like an 80% payback so Vegas is probably a better bet for national solvancy then the current health insurance system.
Broken system doesn't need fixing?
This would have been a much better article if you would have simply deleted everything before "I don't get it".
And then deleted everything after it as well.
Health Care is Broken
The USA has the most expensive medical system in the world.
When 50 million Americans can't afford insurance, the insurance system is obviously broken.
Correction correction
"In yesterday's blog, I mistakenly wrote that President Obama had moved from the second person to the first person in his use of "I" instead of "we," when I meant to say he had moved to the first person singular from the plural. My high school English teacher would be horrified, and I apologize to all the linguists out there."
In yesterday's blog you mistakenly intended to write that President Obama had moved from the first person plural to the first person singular, when in fact he has done no such thing. Your journalism ethics teacher would be horrified and you should apologize to all readers who care about the truth.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1495
Don't spend money to save money?
Oh well, there goes the reason to buy replacement windows, siding, roofing, carpeting and all the rest of the hype we are constantly bombarded with on tv, radio & newspapers every day.
Talk vs Action
They talk about reducing costs, but every time Congress acts on healthcare costs go up. They never eliminate a requirement, they just add new ones; each time someone gains, but everyone pays. It is hard to imagine this time will be any different.
some important considerations
Did you know that the proposed plan would actually require non-govt providers to give their services to currently un-insurable people? These people include people who by choice live high risk lifestyles (smoking, drinking, drug use etc). There is a very important reason that the insurance companies don't prefer to cover these higher risk people, they would go out of business if they did. The government's plan would not go out of business, because it is taxpayer subsidized / inflation subsidized. The current administration are not idiots, they know this, therefore a possible conclusion is that they are trying to eliminate the free market competition to the plan that they will be offering. This leaves me asking, why would the government want to be the only health care provider? Another question that must be asked is, what kind of service would I get if the government was the only provider? Remember that competition creates better service and lower costs. Without competition the government's plan would cause higher costs to the taxpayer, and lower quality service. Imagine the DMV of medical care... What fun! I think that people who want "life liberty medical care and the pursuit of happiness" should go where that is already provided, and not turn this country into a system of ineffective government bloat that will cost us our tax dollars / inflation and now our health.
Ditch socialism! It is a horrible system!
conservative view
The USA has the best medical system in the world led by competing companies.Superior innovation and many advancements in medical research are due to this competition.Public health care plans would seriously out-compete private plans because of the long arm of the government to tax and they would do a dismal job of running it.Medicare and medicaid are already in danger of bankruptcy and it would be foolish to think that the government would do any better with universal health care or as we call it 'rationed health care" The waiting time to see doctors and especially treatment is far longer in socialized countries than it is in the USA.
