Democrats organize to fight back

[Warren Dew]

(11-17-2016, 04:59 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(11-17-2016, 12:01 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: To the contrary, private insurance is far more able to negotiate for lower prices.  As you point out, government is subject to lobbying from the suppliers, keeping prices high; private insurance doesn't have that problem.

Whatcha talkin' about Warren?   Health insurance companies are useless intermediaries , man.

The money going to them is utter waste. Just think about all the money going to them that could just go to health care providers directly.  Like, I'll take the Medicare starts at age 0 over the crap we had before Obamacare and the  sort of messed up stuff with Obamacare.  Health care does not work under free enterprise do to a mismatch in  the ability to afford what is actually needed.

Of course you'll take a system that allows you to spend other peoples' money as freely as you want.

For those of us who care about societal efficiency and the financial stability of the health care system, though, private insurance does a very good job on cost controls.  Perhaps you don't look at your insurance statements, but I do, and typically private insurance pays about 1/3 of the health care providers' "normal" rates.

There are absolutely problems with employers making decisions on employees' health care, but for medicare that permitted the individuals to choose their insurers, that problem would be ameliorated to a great extent.