Comments on: Does the House Plan Outlaw Private Insurance?

By: Reagan on Socialized Medicine - Page 4

Reagan on Socialized Medicine - Page 4 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:47:38 +0000

[...] any evidence for their assertion. Is the heritage foundation conservative enough for you? Does the House Plan Outlaw Private Insurance? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. "So IBD is wrong: individual health insurance will not be outlawed. But it will be effectively [...]

By: Sean, Virginia

Sean, Virginia — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:39:42 +0000

Keep this in mind: the Health Insurance industry provides absolutely no value of any kind to anyone but its shareholders.

With P&C and Life Insurance the participant uses their policy to offset risk; the insurance company uses sophisticated mathematic modeling to balance that risk, spreading amongst all policy holders.

Health Insurance companies do nothing like this; they simply play middle man and take 30% of the money in the system out as their profit.

When addressing cost (as with any business model) it's the profit that must be addressed first. We're talking about who takes our money, as insureds, and gives it to the medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharma, et al).

So, why in the world are we defending this industry??? To hell with them. It is immoral to profit off the sick and dying.

MEDICARE FOR ALL!

By: The Top 7 Craziest Myths About Healthcare Reform | The Fact of My Ignorance

The Top 7 Craziest Myths About Healthcare Reform | The Fact of My Ignorance — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:03:31 +0000

[...] boilerplate. Politifact, The Kaiser Family Foundation, Rep Waxman, and even the conservative Heritage foundation all called them out on their [...]

By: HR320 : Division A : Day Two, Part One : 101 Dead Armadillos

HR320 : Division A : Day Two, Part One : 101 Dead Armadillos — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:37:05 +0000

[...] I sat down this morning to start this post, I received an email with a link to a post at The Foundry over at The Heritage [...]

By: Rebekkah Los Angeles

Rebekkah Los Angeles — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:51:31 +0000

What I fail to understand is why the outrage of if premiums go up because you get sick.

If I go to a cafe, and eat an appetizer, and someone else goes to the same cafe and eats a three-course meal, they have to pay more.

If I don't have any accidents, my car insurance will be less than someone who gets in accidents all the time.

If I only go to to the doctor once a year for a physical, my premium should refelct that.

The person who is unfortunate enought to get a catastrophic illness SHOULD pay more; they are using more!

They shouldn't be getting reamed, but they should certainly be paying more than a person who is never sick. That is just common sense.

By: FrankJ, Louisiana

FrankJ, Louisiana — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:39:43 +0000

Unfortunately, most of what I hear from proponents of ObamaCare is how much money insurance companies make, how many lobbyists they employ, wasteful spending by them.

I’m neither for or against insurance companies but I wonder why none of the proponents of ObamaCare demand that our government cleanup their act before demanding the insurance companies clean up theirs. Sure our administration system “NOT OUR HEALTHCARE” needs to be fixed. It’s not luck that we have the best healthcare in the world but if we pass ObamaCare, our high level of care will have to be sacrificed.

What should be untouched in any reform are 2 things. 1) maintaining a system that will provide the same high level of care and 2) we have a choice of insurance providers.

If Obama has his way, the brightest will no longer lend their talent to the healthcare industry and insurance companies will no longer exist for us to choose from.

By: Miller, Kansas

Miller, Kansas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:51:25 +0000

My concern is how will the courts read this section. If congress isn't clear in how private insurance will be protected, the courts my end up outlawing private insurance when provisions of this bill end up in courts.

By: Birgit

Birgit — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:48:43 +0000

Greg is right call this a "franken-hellth-bill" to go perfctly with the Frankenfood"(GMO) they want us to eat, with frankenPharma standing by to finish it off.

Google: soft kill methods

By: Greg, South Carolina

Greg, South Carolina — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:56:50 +0000

I think that all Americans would love to see an honest health care and insurance reform, but this is a Frankenstein bill and needs to be defeated and a new effort started with the people involved and "intelligent regulation" in place. When you have some foundation damage or warped floors in your house, you don't tear the the entire house down.

By: Searching for Easter Eggs in the Health Care Bill (Senate Version) « Johnny Constitution

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:29:30 +0000

[...] Is Individual Private Insurance Really Outlawed? And what about the claim by IBD and others that the House version of the bill forbids insurers from offering individual health plans? As usual, no answer is straightforward. Page 16 eliminates existing plans, page 19 allows for new plans under new guidelines. However, the new guidelines are such that they will be too expensive to gain any real traction. So now, they aren’t outlawed, but they may as well be since insurers aren’t likely to find them worth offering. Which is exactly what the Obama administration is hoping for. For more information on this and the relevant text, the Heritage Foundation has done the best write-up on the facts that I’ve seen thus far. [...]