Strother in Crisis
But in your haste to tear apart the Mass. 'collectivist' plan, you conveniently glossed over my main point. The fact is that the cost of uninsured patients — many of who become partial or full-on deadbeats — at the hospitals you and I depend on is being paid for by us.
I absolutely did not gloss over it. I addressed it throughout my response. Read it again.
I didn't think that you were the type to stick your head in the sand.
I'm not, and since there is nothing here over which I need to stick my head in the sand, I'm not sure where you are going with this. Advocates of central planning regularly use a phony "crisis" to prod the masses into demanding that the government "do something." That something is always the same: more control, authority, power, and money flows to a central government. Neither you nor the Winston-Salem Journal has demonstrated that any crisis exists.
I've personally heard from reliable sources that one out of four babies born at a local hospital aren't covered by insurance — 25 percent!
Is this your crisis? Are the babies being put to death because the mother has no insurance? Are the mothers being forced to have their babies in the streets? No, they are not. Infant mortality is down, the overall quality of pre-natal and post-natal care has improved. Women go to hospitals and have their babies. And yes, sometimes they do it without insurance! I see no crisis.
Of course it wouldn't be right to simply turn those pregnant mothers away, but how many of those costly tabs will be absorbed by those who have the means to pay their bills or have comprehensive insurance plans?
All of them, obviously. So the real crisis is that you and the editors of the Winston-Salem Journal have suddenly discovered that health care is expensive. Welcome to 21st century Earth. All the central control fanatics want to do is turn that market-based cost-sharing over to the government. They want to take it out of the hands of the evil old insurance corporations and regulate it by central government planning. The end result will be no different. The cost of serving people without insurance is already built into the system. The Mass. plan is a sham, like every other political maneuver on health care. It is advertised as "forcing" people with no insurance to get on board, with the implicit case being that there are a bunch of selfish rich people who refuse to get insurance but who show up at the emergency room and expect us to pay for it. That's stupid. All the Mass. plan will do is put more people on government subsidized health care without having to deal with the objection to it being socialist tyranny. "No, we're not expanding the welfare state, we're just making greedy people pay their share." Here's a clue for you: people who can afford to pay for medical insurance do, people who are wealthy enough not to need insurance pay as they go. The latter actually represent a net positive influence of supply and demand on the health care market. The collectivist plan penalizes these few people and slips a whole bunch of other people onto welfare health care. The end result? Nothing, except that taxes will probably have to go up once the idiots who put this into place realize there are a lot more people who will end up on the government's dime than they expected.
As I said: collectivist tripe.
I absolutely did not gloss over it. I addressed it throughout my response. Read it again.
I didn't think that you were the type to stick your head in the sand.
I'm not, and since there is nothing here over which I need to stick my head in the sand, I'm not sure where you are going with this. Advocates of central planning regularly use a phony "crisis" to prod the masses into demanding that the government "do something." That something is always the same: more control, authority, power, and money flows to a central government. Neither you nor the Winston-Salem Journal has demonstrated that any crisis exists.
I've personally heard from reliable sources that one out of four babies born at a local hospital aren't covered by insurance — 25 percent!
Is this your crisis? Are the babies being put to death because the mother has no insurance? Are the mothers being forced to have their babies in the streets? No, they are not. Infant mortality is down, the overall quality of pre-natal and post-natal care has improved. Women go to hospitals and have their babies. And yes, sometimes they do it without insurance! I see no crisis.
Of course it wouldn't be right to simply turn those pregnant mothers away, but how many of those costly tabs will be absorbed by those who have the means to pay their bills or have comprehensive insurance plans?
All of them, obviously. So the real crisis is that you and the editors of the Winston-Salem Journal have suddenly discovered that health care is expensive. Welcome to 21st century Earth. All the central control fanatics want to do is turn that market-based cost-sharing over to the government. They want to take it out of the hands of the evil old insurance corporations and regulate it by central government planning. The end result will be no different. The cost of serving people without insurance is already built into the system. The Mass. plan is a sham, like every other political maneuver on health care. It is advertised as "forcing" people with no insurance to get on board, with the implicit case being that there are a bunch of selfish rich people who refuse to get insurance but who show up at the emergency room and expect us to pay for it. That's stupid. All the Mass. plan will do is put more people on government subsidized health care without having to deal with the objection to it being socialist tyranny. "No, we're not expanding the welfare state, we're just making greedy people pay their share." Here's a clue for you: people who can afford to pay for medical insurance do, people who are wealthy enough not to need insurance pay as they go. The latter actually represent a net positive influence of supply and demand on the health care market. The collectivist plan penalizes these few people and slips a whole bunch of other people onto welfare health care. The end result? Nothing, except that taxes will probably have to go up once the idiots who put this into place realize there are a lot more people who will end up on the government's dime than they expected.
As I said: collectivist tripe.
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