washingtonpost.com — LOS ANGELES -- With his own party sidelined, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) is working with Democrats to produce a bill that would extend health insurance to everyone in the nation's largest state if voters approve new taxes to pay for it.
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qposterSep 25, 2007
The statistics for heart bypass operations in this country as opposed by countries are a about 2 to 1 so when your big mac eating ass needs that heart bypass your twice as likely to get it here thank in canadoh. SO PLEASE go out and get some facts before posting pure socialist crap. Per capita that means how many exist per person we have twice as many TWICE as many cat scan machines. How is our health care f**ked? BY GOVERNMENT that is why you are a fascist.
omegaredixSep 25, 2007
You get FREE medical if you are not a citizen here in the United States. So to all non-citizens, come over have your children here on us we will front the bill!!! To all citizens...sorry thats going to cost you 20,000.
Closed AccountSep 25, 2007
excalpius!!! You hit the nail on the head! You are right...I applaud your well thought out reply.I don't think we will ever be able to do away with the health "care" industry cause they have the lobbyist,the power and the $$$ to sway public opinion so they stay in power and milk the gullible public...Look how many people here have fallen for their spin? it's bloody scary. And you just think it's expensive now...These companies and their greedy shareholders and CEO's can never get enough money....Prices will continue to go up and more people will suffer...I don't think this will end well for anyone,except the insurance companies..Who in the end,don't give a sparrow's fart about you...And one day,you will need their help with something and they won't cover you,even though you have paid them for YEARS. Keep in mind,it's all about their bottom line and how much money they can make.
Closed AccountSep 25, 2007
Or criminals...
maz2331Sep 26, 2007
At the Federal level these things don't fit with other states. Leave it at the state level, and if I dislike it I can change states, but it's really difficult to change countries.
cahealth11Oct 26, 2007
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emily2531Dec 19, 2007
Illegal immigrants aren't the reason our healthcare costs are so high and so many are uninsured or under-insured. The real reason is that we have a FOR-PROFIT system of insurance companies. We need a single payer not-for-profit system.
hyperactiveDec 27, 2007
It is required by law for a corporation to maximize the profits of the shareholders. In an industry where paying-out is the business, the only way to reduce costs and increase profits (as required by law), is to reject claims. Private insurance corporations are CORPORATIONS with shareholders and stocks. Making more corporations will add more companies that are required by law to maximize profits to shareholders by REJECTING CLAIMS.
ladyj27Mar 21, 2008
What you are suggesting is tort reform and a great starting point to fix a very complex problem require time-consuming solutions. I believe the real problem lies within the intricate system of medical care delivery. Our country once had a medical system that was the envy of all other developed nations: wide coverage, high quality, etc purely because it operated by supply & demand in the private sector. Once the government dipped it's hand in the cookie jar, premiums skyrocketed because of lobbyists in Washington, and payer mix forced hospitals and insurance companies to start charging the middle class more $ to cover the uninsured and gov't-sponsored patients (Medicare/Medicaid, Veterans, etc). Physicians stop accepting Medicare patients because the government only pays a fraction of services/bills, usually 6-12mos late, if at all. Add greedy drug companies and their lobbyists' actions into the mix of federal and state legislation, and you get the current mess of a system.If you want examples of HOW universal healthcare is not the answer, look no further than Medicare and the Veterans' situation. What has "worked" in other nations won't work here - we have different social factors/needs/costs (not to mention double the population and obesity/heart illness), and quality in those nations ALWAYS drops. If universal healthcare ever became mandated (and I truly believe it never will), you can expect the following:1. Quality will drop even lower than it already has2. Taxes will double, at least3. Out-of-pocket costs will skyrocket4. Coverage will not increase; for the average American it will actually decrease in scope and intensity of services5. Waiting periods and lack of access to providers will grow due to physician shortage (as a result of lack of incentives)6. The same standards of Medicare will apply to every American - look into it, it's terrifying to learn what Medicare will NOT cover. Surely worse than your current 3rd party provider's coverage.Now, of course, in a perfect world, we'd dedicate the billions we waste overseas in defense towards taking care of our citizens... but we don't live in a perfect world, and never will. Trusting the government to control and fund your healthcare is a foolish idea. They've already proved they can't handle it and don't care about your health (if they did, cigarettes and alcohol would be the most illegal drugs in the nation).Obama's plan to approach the problem by means of making private insurance affordable to every American is a much wiser path. If insurance companies were offered tax write-offs for supplying coverage to more Americans, the simply economic principles of supply and demands would drive down the costs while increasing the number of covered people.
mattlockardAug 7, 2008
Is it really the insurance companies who are screwing us or is it the doctors, hospitals and drug companies who keep raising their fees. The insurance companies help us pay our expensive medical bills. How exactly is the "Insurance Company" screwing us.
afizzledbearAug 23, 2009
The health care in Canada was ranked better than what the US has. Every industrialized country has this.<a class="user" href="http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html</a>