Government run health-care, SIGN ME UP!
August 10th, 2009 | Bob Rosner
“The government can’t run Cash for Clunkers, how can we trust them with health care.” That line was repeated over and over during recent town meetings with Congress-people and Senators.
First, the Cash for Clunkers program was an unqualified success. When was the last time you remember hearing about a government program that was so popular and so successful?
Cash for Clunkers was designed to get gas-guzzlers off the road and to sell new cars. Check and double-check. People loved the program and raced to the dealerships to cash in. Sure the program ran through a lot of money, because people loved it and it more than achieved its goals. Give me more of this kind of government program!
And speaking of government programs, sign me up for a government run health care program. As skeptical as I am of government, I am a thousand times more skeptical of health insurance companies.
I’m writing this not only as a consumer, but as a person who spent time working for two different health insurance companies. I’ve seen the lies and profiteering from the inside and I want another option. We deserve another option.
I wish Congress-people and Senators could see how frustrated we are with pre-existing conditions, treatments being considered experimental and all the other crap that we’ve all been handed by health insurance companies. Crap that we’ve had thrown in our faces even though we paid our dues and were promised the very care we’re having withheld from us.
I’m not suggesting a single-payer model. No, my suggestion is much simpler. Let the government compete with health insurance companies. I’m tired of them having a monopoly in health care. Let’s give them a real run for their money by making them compete.
They hate this idea because they know that far from fearing their government there are millions of people who would rather put their lives in the hands of government bureaucrats than profiteering private companies.
So please keep the public option on the table. Give us real choice.
Funny how corporations talk about the free market but then do everything to keep it very expensive and not free at all.
Based on your experience do you prefer the existing monopoly or would you like to join me in a government run program?
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August 22nd, 2009 at 2:17 am
First of all if you relate success to wasting tax dollars in an effort to figure out if Americans will take something for free, then you may want to rethink continues education and had better take an economics course. I am curious who this helped? Where did they get the money to give away again? Oh just like health care from the working class. I have private insurance and am not ignorant as to why the price keeps going up. It must be because of that outrageous 3% profit that insurance companies make! Or maybe its because Gov. Medicare only pays about 50% of the actual cost, so hospitals don’t go broke they raise prices on those who pay full price for insurance. Did you know when a medicaid patient stays over night in a hospital the Gov. only pays max of $1,500 dollars, and if he is there for 30 days guess how much the hospital gets paid???? The same, a max per visit of $1,500!!! What crooks and we wonder why private insurance for health care is so high. Funny thing is people keep thinking Gov. is the answer when all along they are the problem and created the problem. Do some research clown!!!