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To: Katelew who wrote (406019)	1/23/2011 3:47:35 AM
From: KLP	7 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794309

Maybe we are talking past each other, but maybe not. How much does the Government regulate insurance companies now? Ae insurance companies allowed to sell to ANYONE in ANY State? The insurers may still be in place. BUT the government does tell them who they can take as customers, how much they can charge, etc....I think if the Government were entirely out of the mix, it would be better for EVERY person in America. The thing Government can and should do is hold hearings on various pieces of the medical system. Why are infections so rampant in a supposedly clean hospital atmosphere? Why are families of patients made to take over duties of nurses when patients are discharged a day or two after major surgery? Why are individual medicines doled out in individual packets (at great cost) in hospital, rather than the old way from a regular Hospital Pharmacy? Why aren't ALL patients who don't carry insurance, made to pay at least a small portion of their hospital cost? Why are Medicare regulations determining the pricing of the hospital bills, NO MATTER if the patient isn't of Medicare age? Why are people who haven't paid into Medicare allowed to use that system? Remember GM...(I've an article I'll post after this that might better clarify what I mean)....GM was a private company. The HIGH cost of union demands brought the company toward bankruptcy. The US Government took them over and is dictating the cars they will build, and the costs... I think we should repeal this mess we have made, and start over....this time holding hearings in public, stating the concerns of the hospitals, the doctors, the staffing, the equipment suppliers, AND the patients..... It is outrageous that we have had a Congress who wrote a 2,000 page bill and voted on it BEFORE it was even written, or anyone knew what was in it..... I think we're talking past each other. What I mean is that his plan leaves the insurers in place. They are still private companies and owned by shareholders. They operate in the market economy. A communist approach would be to take them over and run them as state entities. I agree with you on the high cost of all things medical, but I don't know what can be done about it. You don't want the govt. to set prices do you? That would be a rather communist approach, seem to me.