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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (495792)	7/16/2009 9:04:55 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573379

No, most doctors, hospitals, clinics in the area etc have an agreement with my PPO. All it means is the doctors agree with the insurance company about what they'll charge for a particular procedure. I can use any doctor anywhere in the world - though if I use one not in the PPO, the insurance company won't pay as high a percent. And what,besides your ideology, would you see as the difference between a government PPO and a private one except lower premiums for the national plan. First, private insurance companies are not as monolithic powers as the federal govt. Second, my PPO pays more than medicare, I believe. Third, the "premiums" of a federal plan are whatever they choose them to be - they can make up the rest out of taxes. When it becomes the healthcare system for the nation An admission the goal is to socialize the nations health care. , you can continue your old plan, Except they'll give companies incentives to end their plans and no one will have anything else then. but to make it work all new subscribers will have to go to the new one. Why? This is supposed to be about providing coverage for people not covered now, isn't it? Not phasing out non-socialist health care. If this is just about helping people w/o health care now, why the need to outlaw new private plans? Most people in America have health care now that they're pleased with. Why do you want to take that away and give us socialism instead? The pretend compassion mask is slipping off and the statist grasp for power is showing. ---------------------------------- Most corporations including very rich ones are no longer offering pension plans to new employees Why are you talking about pensions - want to abolish private pensions too and put everyone a govt program? Yes, I think you do. ---------------------------- " And that of most other Americans? Most people prefer what they have to socialism." That's not what the polls say.....get used to it... No, you're wrong: Satisfaction with Own Health Insurance Remarkably Stable Most people in the United States continue to give their own insurance good marks, whether employer-provided, individually purchased, Medicare or Medicaid ...... For the fifth time in six years, Harris Interactive has asked the insured public to rate their own insurance plans. Two thirds of them continue to give their plans an A or a B, with only 10% giving them a D or an F. Substantial but not overwhelming majorities continue to say that they would recommend their own health plans to family members who are basically healthy (76%) or who have a serious or chronic illness (68%). Of course, these results could be much better with many more As and fewer Cs, Ds and Fs, and fewer people saying they would not recommend their own plans. But the big picture is that most people rate their health insurance positively and only a third or less, depending on the question, give their health insurance negative marks. harrisinteractive.com books.google.com