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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (91522)	9/23/2010 6:50:45 AM
From: SGJ	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224756

This type of thing just pushes the ball forward towards a single payer government run program. Insurers pay and cover what you tell them to pay and cover. They take the premiums for the plan you choose or create, pay out for pre-determined coverages and keep a cut to pay operating expenses and some profit. If the government stops that business model or makes it criminal, the insurers go away and the government can step in. This is really what they want because then they can get to the real culprits in their eyes, the hospitals and doctors who are making the real money. Once everything is paid out by the government they can dictate how much a hospital and a doctor is paid. This will save money, but its going to reduce the number of doctors and hospitals and any rate savings are going to be more than eaten up by bureaucratic administrative costs. So you're going to have less available health services and an enormous increase in the government budget deficit.