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Originally Posted by bawac34618
What "solutions" have conservatives offered aside from more Jesus rammed down the throats of all Americans? Where is the alternative to Obamacare that is more affordable and covers more people?
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Republicans aren't constitutionally obligated to provide an alternative to Obamacare.
Informed Americans know that the Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled for more than 100 years that both insurance and medical care are intra-State commerce and that Congress has no authority over intra-State commerce.
How could it be you are so uninformed?
If you don't like this nightmare, then put the blame where it belongs, which is on your State legislatures, FDR, unions, Congress and your Supreme Court.
They created this nightmare, so why should we believe that anything they undertake will be successful?
Your employer lords over your healthcare, because FDR, unions, Congress and your Supreme Court said so.
It was FDR who stupidly enacted the Wage & Price Freeze to combat Wage Inflation instead of just a Price Freeze as common sense dictates.
Since your employer couldn't give you a pay raise without first obtaining prior written consent from the National Labor Board, and since the National Labor Board never granted consent, employer's started offering to pay for health plan coverage.
You chose the plan, not your employer. Your employer only paid all or part of the costs.
Nothing wrong with that.
The Big Mistake Part Deux comes when Congress starts subsidizing employers who pay for plans.
Then, since the MAFIA controls unions and is using union pension plans to launder money, the MAFIA sees healthcare plans as just one more vehicle to allow them to launder even more money, so they push the unions to gain control of the plans and the idiots on the Supreme Court stupidly gave it to them in 1949.
That's a fact Jack. See the 1949
In Re: Inland Steel decision.
Now, your employer lords over your healthcare plan like feudal baron.
But, the good news is, Congress can fix this just as soon as Congress grows a spine.
All Congress has to do is end the tax-payer subsidies to employers. It might help to also penalize employers who offer health plans.
Your employer never choose the best health plan for you. They always choose the best plan for them, and the best plan for them is one that maximizes their tax-payer subsidies.
If Congress did that, we'd back where we started:
You choose the plan, your employer just pays for it.
Do tell...are you going to choose a plan that benefits you or one that benefits your employer?
Your State legislatures screwed up everything by granting hospitals monopoly power.
No monopoly of any kind is ever good.
Your hospital monopolies illegally collude to illegally fix prices above market rates.
If you do doubt, then read and weep:
Wills v Foster 229 Ill. 2d 393 (2008)
I can post thousands and thousands of those. They're all the same.
The plaintiff owed $80,163 in medical bills but the hospital accepted $19,005
in full satisfaction.
Why do you think the hospital accepted in $19,000
as payment in full?
Because they made a $7,000+ profit.
The actual Free Market cost of medical care was probably $9,000 to $12,000.
Then, why did the hospital bill $80,000?
Um, which part of "monopoly" do you not understand?
The monopolies bill $80,000 and if you and your insurance company pay it, then you're just a bunch of suckers. Your insurance company will try to negotiate it down, but whatever you or they pay, the monopoly always gets a hefty profit.
Your State legislatures can fix that just as soon as they grow a spine and repeal the laws that grant hospitals monopoly status and the pursue anti-trust actions against the hospitals.
If you did that, you'd almost be like Switzerland. Not quite, but almost.
If you barred a group from owning more than one medical facility within a Metropolitan Statistical Area, then you'd be a lot more like Switzerland.
And then if you forced hospitals to break up into clinics and polyclinics, you'd be like Switzerland and Germany and Romania and Belgium and France and the other Euro-States.
You do want to be like them, don't you?
That's what I've been hearing for years.
Creating a universal healthcare system does not make you like them. If you want to be like them, you have to do the things they did, or you won't save even one penny, and it'll even cost more than you're paying now.
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