The people of Maryland cannot trust the State government to provide any solution. When they \”de-regulated\” the utilities in Maryland the citizens got a huge rate increase and a new fee tacked on to their bills for the next ten years. When they \”solved\” the med-mal crisis they added a 2% tax to HMO\’s that was passed on the consumers. Then they claimed they ‘didn’t know the HMO’s would pass on the cost’. Meanwhile, the proceeds of the tax hike went to lawyers and doctors who were ‘struggling to pay their premiums’. To this day I\’ve still not come across a lawyer or doctor not driving an expensive car or sending their children to private school. They’re not struggling! But thousands of Marylanders honestly do struggle to pay their heath insurance premiums. The government of the State of Maryland has failed its constituents over and over and over. Why would we trust them again?
Why would we trust them? Because they\’re led by Mike Miller, of course! He is, after all, the High Ruler of Maryland,
whose wisdom is surpassed only by his committment to personal and economic liberty. Besides, didn\’t you hear him tell you that the utility \”de-regulation\” and the present demand that we pay market prices for our energy is actually Gov. Ehrlich\’s fault? No… the Public Service Commission! No… BGE/Constellation Energy/Florida Power & Light!
Yep…it\’s always the big bad insurance company\’s fault. It\’s never the fault of greedy dentists, doctors and lawyers who are all wealthy compared to everybody else that works for a living (for a hell of alot less than doctors & lawyers). I know alot of struggling insurance agents, financial planners, accountants who must struggle to pay their health insurance premiums. I know alot of poor home health care providers, retail store managers and temp workers – all who scrape to get by, driving Hyundais, Chevys and Fords, who can\’t afford health insruance at all.
When one wonders why health insurance premiums are so high, why are they not questioning the billing practices of hospitals and doctors and dentists? Why isn\’t anyone scrutinizing the unaffordably high rates charged by the doctors, dentists and other specialists in the medical community?
These greeds charge such high prices for their \”services\” because they know that people who are sick don\’t have any choice – except to end up sicker, disabled or dead, which is exactly what happens to approximately 18,000 uninsured Americans who die every year from lack of access to medical care because they are poor or \”near poor\” (too poor to pay for healthcare but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or any other public health insurance).
But how many working poor parents can afford to help their kids get into medical school or law school? Hardly any – unless they hit the lottery! How many working poor adults can get enough money in student aid to pay for medical school, dental school or law school? None!
All of this serves to ensure that only the affluent and their offspring can aspire to becoming doctors, dentists, surgeons and lawyers, which serves to keep these professionals very protected and insulated from market competition and fair market prices based on what the majority of the public can afford to pay for their \”services\”.
And let us not forget that the biggest defrauders of insurance companies are doctors, dentists and hospitals. The laws are set up so that the poor working man who is deemed guilty of cheating the workers comp carrier gets the book thrown at him but the hospitals, dentists and doctors who are the biggest rip-off artists when it comes to ordering unnecessary procedures from expensive root canals to invasive surgeries and padding the bills, yet these fat cats are almost never adjudicated and made to pay the penalty under the full measure of the law – while everybody else suffers from higher insurance premiums as insurance carriers must compensate for these losses on such a massive scale by passing it onto the consumer who can\’t afford it.
There\’s reform needed all right, and it\’s NOT the insurance carriers or other businesses like Wal-Mart\’s that need the reforming! It\’s the medical and legal establishment.
The people of Maryland cannot trust the State government to provide any solution. When they \”de-regulated\” the utilities in Maryland the citizens got a huge rate increase and a new fee tacked on to their bills for the next ten years. When they \”solved\” the med-mal crisis they added a 2% tax to HMO\’s that was passed on the consumers. Then they claimed they ‘didn’t know the HMO’s would pass on the cost’. Meanwhile, the proceeds of the tax hike went to lawyers and doctors who were ‘struggling to pay their premiums’. To this day I\’ve still not come across a lawyer or doctor not driving an expensive car or sending their children to private school. They’re not struggling! But thousands of Marylanders honestly do struggle to pay their heath insurance premiums. The government of the State of Maryland has failed its constituents over and over and over. Why would we trust them again?
Why would we trust them? Because they\’re led by Mike Miller, of course! He is, after all, the High Ruler of Maryland,
whose wisdom is surpassed only by his committment to personal and economic liberty. Besides, didn\’t you hear him tell you that the utility \”de-regulation\” and the present demand that we pay market prices for our energy is actually Gov. Ehrlich\’s fault? No… the Public Service Commission! No… BGE/Constellation Energy/Florida Power & Light!
I\’m so happy I have Mike Miller to count on!
(Help me… !!!!!!)
Yep…it\’s always the big bad insurance company\’s fault. It\’s never the fault of greedy dentists, doctors and lawyers who are all wealthy compared to everybody else that works for a living (for a hell of alot less than doctors & lawyers). I know alot of struggling insurance agents, financial planners, accountants who must struggle to pay their health insurance premiums. I know alot of poor home health care providers, retail store managers and temp workers – all who scrape to get by, driving Hyundais, Chevys and Fords, who can\’t afford health insruance at all.
When one wonders why health insurance premiums are so high, why are they not questioning the billing practices of hospitals and doctors and dentists? Why isn\’t anyone scrutinizing the unaffordably high rates charged by the doctors, dentists and other specialists in the medical community?
These greeds charge such high prices for their \”services\” because they know that people who are sick don\’t have any choice – except to end up sicker, disabled or dead, which is exactly what happens to approximately 18,000 uninsured Americans who die every year from lack of access to medical care because they are poor or \”near poor\” (too poor to pay for healthcare but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or any other public health insurance).
But how many working poor parents can afford to help their kids get into medical school or law school? Hardly any – unless they hit the lottery! How many working poor adults can get enough money in student aid to pay for medical school, dental school or law school? None!
All of this serves to ensure that only the affluent and their offspring can aspire to becoming doctors, dentists, surgeons and lawyers, which serves to keep these professionals very protected and insulated from market competition and fair market prices based on what the majority of the public can afford to pay for their \”services\”.
And let us not forget that the biggest defrauders of insurance companies are doctors, dentists and hospitals. The laws are set up so that the poor working man who is deemed guilty of cheating the workers comp carrier gets the book thrown at him but the hospitals, dentists and doctors who are the biggest rip-off artists when it comes to ordering unnecessary procedures from expensive root canals to invasive surgeries and padding the bills, yet these fat cats are almost never adjudicated and made to pay the penalty under the full measure of the law – while everybody else suffers from higher insurance premiums as insurance carriers must compensate for these losses on such a massive scale by passing it onto the consumer who can\’t afford it.
There\’s reform needed all right, and it\’s NOT the insurance carriers or other businesses like Wal-Mart\’s that need the reforming! It\’s the medical and legal establishment.