I challenge anyone who wants government run health care to answer these questions:
1. What do you do with people who do not want health care insurance. My first case in point is the Amish. There about 231,000 Amish living in the U.S. They do not have health insurance because it is against their religious beliefs. They still go to the doctor and hospitals and they pay the health costs of the doctor and hospital. Should the U.S. government force them to carry health insurance?
2. Why would we want to trust the government to run most or all health care and health insurance? The U.S. government that is still fighting a war on poverty since the Depression and especially since LBJ's presidency. Why should we trust the government that has just screwed up the economy.
3. Do liberals trust the GOP to run health care when they again regain power. Just as the Democrats lost power in the early 2000's, they will lose power again. It is the cyclical nature of politics.
4. How will you pay for it? If you say the rich will pay for it or savings will come from more government efficiency, your drinking the Kool Aide.
5. Would you be willing to tweak the system or do you want to kill the current system? I think there is room to tweak the system. For instance, if a company changes health insurance and go with another company, the new company cannot deny health insurance for pre-exisitng conditions if they were being treated by the previous health insurance company.
6. Can you gurantee that health care will not be rationed and that health care will stay the same or improve?
If the liberals can answer these questions, I can be open to the idea of government run health insurance. But until them, call me a huge skeptic.
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the new company cannot deny health insurance for pre-exisitng conditions if they were being treated by the previous health insurance company
ReplyDeleteThat's already Federal law. Been in place for about 5-10 years.
"Why capper would lie to me about this subject? "But then her husband's employer switched insurance carriers and they said it was a pre-existing condition and wanted to charge them almost $1500 a month, just for her!"
ReplyDeleteERISA is the law I cited.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few exceptions--rare, but they exist. Perhaps Capper's case was one of those. But it's also possible that Capper does not have, or is not relating, the whole story.
For example: it is possible that she was not insured for a period before "the switch." Perhaps that detail escaped someone's memory.