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One could say all this is good because it will reduce the cost of premiums until you grasp the goal
of for profit, publicly- traded insurers is to increase shareholder value, not reduce the cost of premiums.
That is the goal of all corporations. Generally consumers benefit from reduced costs as long as enough competitors exists.
Insurance is not a natural monopoly. When not enough competition exists, in the absence of a natural monopoly situation, you can bet your last dollar that government is stifling competition.
Because as a country we will always refuse to turn away the sick that made bad choices.
We are not a collective, we are individuals and "country" has no authority over the individual to demand such.
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We have changed the core principles long ago. I touched on this earlier........TARP which was enacted under the Republicans was a massive Socialist program.
Yes, it has changed, but again... it has done so illegally and counter to the very laws and protections to which this country was founded on.
The "country" is in violation, it is unlawful, it is corrupt and it must be brought to justice.
It is time for an Article 5, time to bring this rogue country to justice.
It is their job to work for "the people of this country" not sit on their asses and do nothing.
They tried to work for the people by voting against the atrocity in the first place. It's the responsibility of the ones who shoved it down our throats to make it workable. Note, I don't think they will, as it was designed to fail and force us into single payer.
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat below. She shouted to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolled her eyes and said, "You must be a Republican.
"I am," replied the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me."
The man smiled and responded, "You must be an Obama-Democrat."
"I am," replied the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," said the man, "you don't know where you are -- or where you are going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it's my fault ! "
They tried to work for the people by voting against the atrocity in the first place. It's the responsibility of the ones who shoved it down our throats to make it workable. Note, I don't think they will, as it was designed to fail and force us into single payer.
They seem to be admitting they're too stupid to ''fix'' it.
As a child: You didn't need the Republican support to pass the law after they repeatedly told you it's not going to work but now you blame them for not helping you to fix it? Get the f out of here!
As an adult: Too many things in the Obamacare are wrong. It might be better to draft a new one rather than feeding the dead horse.
Obama and the Dems voted for it and it is their failure to make it work. When you force people to pay in a system that can not even provide basic coverage, it is sad!
They do things and they fail, take NO RESPONSIBILITY for it, THEN they want help to fix THEIR disasters.
The disaster in US healthcare is two fold:
1. Hospitals, etc adopting "the business model" of operation about 20 years ago, massively inflating health care cost in order for corporations to profit from it.
2. Health insurers massively increasing premiums to cover the above costs while increasing their own margins.
We'll eventually go to a single payer system like the rest of the developed world has used successfully for decades. They're not that much smarter then we are. They've shown that it works. We can figure it out.
1. Hospitals, etc adopting "the business model" of operation about 20 years ago, massively inflating health care cost in order for corporations to profit from it.
2. Health insurers massively increasing premiums to cover the above costs while increasing their own margins.
We'll eventually go to a single payer system like the rest of the developed world has used successfully for decades. They're not that much smarter then we are. They've shown that it works. We can figure it out.
The rest of that childish rant is worth a grin.
Obama Care has created vacuum and the whole system has to have ore free market and open state lines to keep cost down. Liberals have always thought it should be free. There is nothing free in this world and Lib's better start understanding this quickly.
My insurance was better before Obama care and very affordable. Now employer's measure the cost to the number of people on full time status.
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