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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (11747)	11/24/2009 11:09:20 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

We can slap fines on them if they don't. Bastards. Wait a minute .... on another thread you asked whether insurance companies should even be allowed to do business. How are people going to buy insurance when there aren't any insurance companies?

To: Road Walker who wrote (11747)	11/24/2009 11:41:40 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

Maybe those folks could buy supplemental with their own $'s instead of be subsidized by taxpayers. Yes, this is an essential first step in moving to SGP so I would expect you to support it. But even with the 14% subsidy, when all things are considered Medicare Advantage is less costly to the government than straight Medicare. Its growth should be encouraged, rather than cut off at the knees. And there is no doubt the subscribers like MA. It is just political blindness. "We can't be subsidizing those evil insurance companies". But the truth is that by doing so we get massive improvements in efficiency, eliminating of far more dollars in waste, fraud and abuse than the subsidy costs, and generally better performance. It makes no sense at all, unless your goal is bloated government run care for everyone. This is just your political dogma talking. If you were to step back away from your commitment to SGP for a minute, you might see there is a better way to do this.