I used to be for national health care as a big lefty, but reading Ron Paul's book and seeing the examples America provides, no way!
Also see: Romney's Wal Mart Health Plan
"Health insurers, businesses seek to limit costs in Mass.; Group aims to ease pressure on employers" by Jeffrey Krasner, Globe Staff | June 5, 2008
Massachusetts businesses yesterday joined with most of the state's health insurers in a new lobbying group aimed at controlling healthcare costs and preventing more universal-coverage expenses from being shifted to employers.
So you know who will be paying for this MANDATORY COVERAGE, don't you, Massachusetts' taxpayers?
The Coalition for Affordable Health Care said it will fight efforts to increase assessments on employers who do not provide health coverage for workers. It will also oppose raising the standards for what constitutes a "reasonable" contribution under the state's healthcare overhaul law, a groundbreaking effort to extend health coverage to all Massachusetts residents.
At a meeting at the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, discussion centered on ways to control healthcare spending. Premiums for most commercial insurance plans have risen at least 10 percent each of the past seven years, making Massachusetts' per capita spending among the highest of any state.
Charles Baker, chief executive of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the state's second-largest health plan, said many Americans wrongly equate higher spending with better care.
"The notion that the more you spend the better you are in healthcare is a giant urban myth," he said.
But in ENRICHES MEDICAL MANAGEMENT and its CORPORATIONS, so shhhhhhhh!!!!!
Baker supports so-called consumer-driven healthcare, in which patients pay higher deductibles and copayments as an incentive for them not to go to the doctor too often or use other unnecessary medical services.
We ALREADY DO THAT!!!!
Actually, with all the government and economic raping the American people have been getting lately, I need to get my ass checked.
It REALLY HURTS these days!!!!
But Amy Lischko, a former state health official and an assistant professor at Tufts University, said there are limits to how people will respond to typical consumer-driven plans. Such coverage might make it more expensive to see a doctor who gets a low ranking for cost and quality.
"Consumers really don't act like rational economists do," said Lischko.
Translation: Health = BUSINESS = $$$$$$!
And you really think they care about YOUR HEALTH -- after poisoning us with their chemicals and vaccines?
The health system is there to COVER UP THEIR CRIMES!!!!
"They're not going to change the doctor they've been seeing for 10 years because a visit is going to cost $5 more." She argued for more creative ways to convince people that extra procedures and expensive diagnostics don't necessarily make them healthier...."
Then WHY is the doctor ordering them up ($$$$$$)?
