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Healthcare costs about to rise 44-62% because of ObamaCare

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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    So you want everybody to have shitty underfunded health care?
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    So you want everybody to have shitty underfunded health care?
    Isn't that what we? have now?
  • Alexis
    Alexis Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 3,438 Founders Club
    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    Boy, you sure told me
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Alexis said:

    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    Boy, you sure told me
    Sounds like a concession to me.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    edited October 2016
    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    Thanks for making my point. As your statement about the VA supports it. There's no incentive to keep expenses down, because the money comes from the backs of the payer. If they happen to run into a shortfall they just give horrible care. This is precisely why a single payer system is terrible. This system isn't accountable for anything. At least health care providers are held accountable by policy contracts that mandate a certain level of service and shareholders.
  • HoustonHusky
    HoustonHusky Member Posts: 6,011
    Health care is a $3+ trillion portion of our economy. Its FS to say eliminating private companies that have an overall profit of a couple billion and putting the govt in charge of doing the same function is going to make it any more efficient. Its really FS.

    The root of the problem is that you have a 3rd payer system...there is very little incentive for anyone to not spend (i.e. I've paid my deductible, so I might as well get X, Y, and Z done because I'm just paying a $20 co-pay, and Lord knows I shouldn't lose weight because I pay the same premium no matter what).

    The only way to limit spending if the govt is put in charge is by having the govt limit the availability of overall health care (i.e. X number of spots, and you wait your turn...i.e. the European way). And you are FS if you think our govt can do that when it has shown its horrible at it where it is in charge (most of the end of life spending is done under Medicare, and that is anything but under control).
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Alexis said:

    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    2001400ex said:

    Alexis said:

    OZONE said:

    It's time to do away with the insurance companies and their "for profit" model for most health care and enact single payer universal health.

    We can keep the insurance companies for people that want to pay extra for some platinum plated insurance so that you can have a lung transplant when you are 95 and haven't accepted that it time for you to LEAVE.

    You of course realized that if insurance companies don't make a profit, they don't have money to pay large claims. I would much rather have an insurance company that barely squeaks by and then when I need them, don't have money to pay. That's what I like.

    And like Greenblood mentioned, single payer government healthcare sure is working out wonderfully with the VA.
    That's the point. The VA is underfunded and vets shouldn't have to deal with lesser care than what everyone else gets. Single payer solves the VA.

    I like it when someone says something thinking it's helping their point, when in reality, it's making the opposite point.
    Boy, you sure told me
    Sounds like a concession to me.
    Every once in awhile, my dog will do some fucking stupid shit. I'm fairly certain he's retarded. Then I'll yell at him for doing said stupid shit. Then I feel stupid myself for yelling at him, because fuck dude, he's a retarded dog. What the fuck did I really expect him to do.

    This is kinda like that.
    Sounds like you care.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Health care is a $3+ trillion portion of our economy. Its FS to say eliminating private companies that have an overall profit of a couple billion and putting the govt in charge of doing the same function is going to make it any more efficient. Its really FS.

    The root of the problem is that you have a 3rd payer system...there is very little incentive for anyone to not spend (i.e. I've paid my deductible, so I might as well get X, Y, and Z done because I'm just paying a $20 co-pay, and Lord knows I shouldn't lose weight because I pay the same premium no matter what).

    The only way to limit spending if the govt is put in charge is by having the govt limit the availability of overall health care (i.e. X number of spots, and you wait your turn...i.e. the European way). And you are FS if you think our govt can do that when it has shown its horrible at it where it is in charge (most of the end of life spending is done under Medicare, and that is anything but under control).

    So let's keep the system we have. Better yet, let's go back to prior to Obamacare where premiums and costs were rising exponentially and people with pre existing conditions couldn't get insurance. Oh yeah, and insurance companies can drop you at a whim. Cause they can.
  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,566
    2001400ex said:

    Health care is a $3+ trillion portion of our economy. Its FS to say eliminating private companies that have an overall profit of a couple billion and putting the govt in charge of doing the same function is going to make it any more efficient. Its really FS.

    The root of the problem is that you have a 3rd payer system...there is very little incentive for anyone to not spend (i.e. I've paid my deductible, so I might as well get X, Y, and Z done because I'm just paying a $20 co-pay, and Lord knows I shouldn't lose weight because I pay the same premium no matter what).

    The only way to limit spending if the govt is put in charge is by having the govt limit the availability of overall health care (i.e. X number of spots, and you wait your turn...i.e. the European way). And you are FS if you think our govt can do that when it has shown its horrible at it where it is in charge (most of the end of life spending is done under Medicare, and that is anything but under control).

    So let's keep the system we have. Better yet, let's go back to prior to Obamacare where premiums and costs were rising exponentially and people with pre existing conditions couldn't get insurance. Oh yeah, and insurance companies can drop you at a whim. Cause they can.
    Companies can drop you on a whim now. Obamacare didn't change that.