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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
Where would the money come from? People like you, tony, me and others that want to help people so instead of the government coming to your house with guns to take the money you freely give your money to a hospital that you wish to have your money.
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OK, I was reading your posts as "I would not give money." Fair enough, my misread.
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
When I say current plan I am talking about the plan that is in congress right now. I would have to dig up the quotes the bill is 1000 plus pages.
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Therein lies a major problem with our governmental system: bills that are so long and so legalese that neither any of us nor most of the people voting on them have actually read them.
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
Here is part of it "Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day" of the year the legislation becomes law.
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I don't base anything on quotes like that, I'd have to read the entire thing. Often, quotes taken out of context can take on a directly opposite meaning to what they ACTUALLY mean when taken within their context. I hope you agree.
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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
I personally think all insurances should be made illegal. They are just a form of subsidy. Hospitals would be forced to charge what the avg customer could afford, or even have a sliding scale, what ever worked for them.
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If healthcare were truly pay-as-you-go, prices would be lower for all of us.
No patient has a clue what a Bindenjender-Floxamaster test costs, so they have no reason NOT to want insurance to pay for it, if there's a snowball's chance it could find something. And doctors are basically paid for piecework rather than results, so why not run the extra probably-unnecessary test?
That's 90% of the problem right there. People in this country have lost focus on what health insurance REALLY should be for: catastrophic events. Not for checkups or crap like that. Health insurance plans should really be more like $5000 deductibles that are designed to help you out if your kidney explodes or whatever. Not for doing 22 different tests because you have a jerky knee.