You might be able to keep your coverage, but make no mistake, you’ll be paying for other peoples.

That is if you still have a job after Obamanomics takes full force.

About the same as these guys that gave us a two trillion dollar deficit when they say this will save us money.

By the way the pre-existing condition is to keep deadbeats (like Woof) from waiting until they’re sick to buy health insurance.

I pay for the health insurance for my family. That’s the way everyone should do it.

That’s the problem with health insurance. In order for it to work you have to be willing to pay for other people’s coverage.

To some extent that is a fair statement, as with any type of insurance, there is a shared risk cost built into it. I believe though that if coverages could be selected to tailor the plan to best suit your own needs that the costs would be reasonable, the coverage would be good and the insurance companies, in competition with each other rather than the state mandated near monopolies they have today would result in profitable operations for them.

If it were wide open, the patient pays, then you’d expect that people would be limiting care due to cost. While that doesn’t seem right I don’t see it any more appropriate to have a government thug make that decision.

I don’t see anything wrong with people making the choice for themselves. I actually don’t see it as any different than other types of insurance, you choose the deductible, the amount of coverage you want, the liability amounts, etc. You choose when or if you want to exercise your insurance. If I thought that going to the doctor for a minor thing that I can treat myself would drive my premiums up, I would simply opt to treat it myself. Same thing again with car insurance. I recently had some body work done on one of my cars. The insurance would have paid for about half the cost after my deductible, but the chances are good that they would up my premium at some time after that. I chose to pay for it out of pocket and save the insurance for a big need if it ever happens. In all of these cases though, it is/was my choice. Having the government mandate what you will or will not get in the way of medical insurance is just lunacy to me.

If they really wanted to fix the problem, they would eliminate employer paid or subsidized insurance, require that the employer give the employee the equivalent amount in wages and allow individuals to shop for the best insurance plan for themselves and their families. This would also require that states allow insurers to compete across state lines and stop mandating that policies include coverages that people don’t need or want. For example, my current plan (employer/employee shared cost) covers things like pre and post natal care. Given that my wife and I would sue the hell out of someone if we were to have children at this point in our lives, why do I need to pay for this? There are also coverages and riders that given the opportunity to choose I would not purchase as they simply don’t apply to my life.

I agree that the healthcare industry needs reform, but nationilzation isn’t the answer. It will only make things much worse. It would give us the benefit of everyone having equal coverage – unfortunately, it’s equally bad coverage.

The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

Everything Fauxbama talks about was attempted before. What is old is new again with a twist of charisma. The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.
All he has done is enlarged the circle of entitlement benefactors.

Our new “boss” has welcomed our banks and auto makers onto the plantation and they have said, “Thank you, Suh.”

Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash.

There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation. Just look what the healthcare industry is doing now.

We saw this before from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.

Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — The War on Poverty — ala President Johnson. His plan was to chart a new course. To strike at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.

Trillions of dollars later, little has changed.

It’s not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama’s invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.

It’s called “extortion.”

If we want health care to get better, we should quit subsidizing care by routing it through third payers.

If we had more compeitition and individual responsibility health care would be cheaper.