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Originally Posted by Guest
You wrote a very lengthy reply but did not answer my simple question. We are either going to reduce the amount of healthcare that is currently being delivered now or we are going to change where the money comes from to pay for it. You speak of risk pools and tailoring insurance policies to allow people to buy coverage they need. That sounds good but does not change the amount of healthcare needed or being used in this country. You have to limit care or come up with money to pay for it regardless of what the Manhattan Institute said.
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First, need I remind you that Obamacare didn't succeed, in fact it failed miserably in gaining healthcare coverage for its target group. All Obamacare did was increase the cost of health insurance for everyone else.
And need I remind you again it was an intentional failure because all Obama wanted to do was start with Obamacare and as a means to implement a single payer plan.
You make light of risk pools but that is how substandard risk are covered in auto, commercial and personal lines of insurance. You make light of interstate marketing but that provides more opportunity for reasonable pricing and hence more affordable insurance with policies that meet people's needs You make light of medicaid block grants to states but they are more effective reduce fraud and abuse and assist in meeting the objective.
You may know healthcare but your reaction to the aforementioned seems to indicate that you know little about insurance. But then, that was the problem with Obamacare and we are all feeling the intentional consequence of "a policy that had to be passed before we knew what was in it".
Actually all Obama had to do was focus on the so called uninsured and provide a risk pool to meet their needs but again his intention wasn't about healthcare it was about more
control and healthcare covers 1/6 of our economy
You also confuse this topic (insurance) with actual healthcare. Healthcare will improve with growing technology and the changing paradigms being constructed by healthcare providers thus increasing case loads at reduced costs. Actually this area should be where government needs to focus vis a vis stealing more money from taxpayers for their lame ideas.
Based on your comments I am left with the impression that you favor a single payer system. I can't think of a better manner in which to control peoples lives than have nanny government decide every facet of a citizens life. Government picks winners and losers and their choices always seem to favor the political class and the 1% of the 1% and with terrible results.
Why is it progressives are always more generous with other people's money but not their own?
I have answered your questions, but essentially we are never going to agree because we are on different ideological and philosophical levels.
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