6.1% and 7.7% increases – “Lies, damn lies and statistics”(3 types of lies-Disraeli) My premiums have gone up over 25% each of the last 2 years and 170% over 5. My family rate for health only is $18,000 a year. unless something is done only the very wealthy will have health insurance. The options that were presented to me was cost shifting there is nothing else. All this BS about shopping doctors and making the user aware of the cost will not work. Single payer universal health paid by a value added tax for basic coverage similar to Medicare is probably the only alternative at this time.
Your premiums have gone up. The cost of health care has gone up. There are no solutions available that I have seen that don’t involve either more and more money to pay skyrocketing health costs or to pay even larger amounts of money over to a socialistic govermental organization that will limit benefits along with costs. We continue to want Rolls Royce health care for Ford prices. This can’t continue. The government doesn’t seem like the solution to me since they don’t do anything else well. Why do you assume that they could handle the huge health care industry? We would stop talking billions and trillions and go to whatever number is beyond that. Why do liberals want to turn everything over to the government to mishandle. Makes no sense to me. As I said, they do little right now.
The Gov does nothing right? You should have sold health insurance before 1966.If you were over 63 no insurance was your option. The Canadians, Brits’, French, Italians, Japanese, Germans, anyone with national health will not give it up. So why do you say the government does nothing right? You have people running the gov. who don’t like the government. Why would that work? Medicare may not be perfect, but my parents and grandparents live and lived better because of it.
I simply don’t agree. If you want a system where you wait months or years for vital procedures, lets socialize the process. Why do people come across the border to get procedures done? Because they don’t want to wait until they are dead. Medicare costs are huge compared to what they were supposed to cost. No government program has any incentive to limits costs. They only exist to perpetuate themselves. Don’t buy into the half-truths the Michael Moores of the world spew. I don’t say what we have is good, but more government, more taxes and more intrusion into the private sector will not help.
You should get this treatment Jarhead. I certainly don’t agree with everything you say in other posts, but anyone who served should be treated with proper respect and get this type of benefit.
6.1% and 7.7% increases – “Lies, damn lies and statistics”(3 types of lies-Disraeli) My premiums have gone up over 25% each of the last 2 years and 170% over 5. My family rate for health only is $18,000 a year. unless something is done only the very wealthy will have health insurance. The options that were presented to me was cost shifting there is nothing else. All this BS about shopping doctors and making the user aware of the cost will not work. Single payer universal health paid by a value added tax for basic coverage similar to Medicare is probably the only alternative at this time.
Your premiums have gone up. The cost of health care has gone up. There are no solutions available that I have seen that don’t involve either more and more money to pay skyrocketing health costs or to pay even larger amounts of money over to a socialistic govermental organization that will limit benefits along with costs. We continue to want Rolls Royce health care for Ford prices. This can’t continue. The government doesn’t seem like the solution to me since they don’t do anything else well. Why do you assume that they could handle the huge health care industry? We would stop talking billions and trillions and go to whatever number is beyond that. Why do liberals want to turn everything over to the government to mishandle. Makes no sense to me. As I said, they do little right now.
The Gov does nothing right? You should have sold health insurance before 1966.If you were over 63 no insurance was your option. The Canadians, Brits’, French, Italians, Japanese, Germans, anyone with national health will not give it up. So why do you say the government does nothing right? You have people running the gov. who don’t like the government. Why would that work? Medicare may not be perfect, but my parents and grandparents live and lived better because of it.
I simply don’t agree. If you want a system where you wait months or years for vital procedures, lets socialize the process. Why do people come across the border to get procedures done? Because they don’t want to wait until they are dead. Medicare costs are huge compared to what they were supposed to cost. No government program has any incentive to limits costs. They only exist to perpetuate themselves. Don’t buy into the half-truths the Michael Moores of the world spew. I don’t say what we have is good, but more government, more taxes and more intrusion into the private sector will not help.
I retired from the Marines after 20 years and my annual health insurance bill is under $500, and I get free prescriptions, so waaaaaaaa
You should get this treatment Jarhead. I certainly don’t agree with everything you say in other posts, but anyone who served should be treated with proper respect and get this type of benefit.