XML FeedsWhy Your Family Health Protection is a Bad Thing
By Raymond on Jun 25, 2009 | In Policy | 2 feedbacks »
On Health Coverage, Medicare, and Medicaid as anti-Market evils.
We will never drive healthcare costs down so long as we have outside parties providing the main method of payment. It anesthetizes the consumer to the costs of healthcare ... So long as we defy the principles of free markets, our system is doomed to many more financial hardships and disappointments.
- - Cynthia Davis, a Republican leader in Missouri Legislature
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NEVER thought I'd say it, but I agree with Rep. Davis---but only in part; that part being her first sentence. Aren't insurance companies "outside parties"? You bet they are! And since their main (sole) aim is to maximize profit, NOT to provide health care, that is a major reason prices are getting so out of hand. Indirectly, Ms. Davis is blaming consumers for this, as they are evidently unaware of the high costs of health care, she alleges. But consumers aren't united enough or capitalized enough to influence high drug and medical equipment costs, so they would be unable to bring costs down on their own. Rep. Davis (fool that she is) didn't realize it, but she made a great case for 100% government-run health care! For government's main concern is protection of the people, not maximizing profit for a relatively small few.
06/26/09 @ 08:17
Comment from: Doorman-Priest [Visitor] · http://theworldofdoorman-priest.blogspot.com
She made a great case for 100% government-run health care!
Oh no: an American Socialist. The world as we know it will come to an end and we'll end up like those poor folk in Yurp.
Oh no: an American Socialist. The world as we know it will come to an end and we'll end up like those poor folk in Yurp.
06/26/09 @ 14:41
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