The sad state of the US people.

[steven787]

Jackson50 said:

akuma587 said:

You can thank the GOP for taking away many of the regulations that were there to protect people away, such as the ability of insurers to discriminate in who they will take as heavily as they can now.  You can also thank the GOP for deregulating insurance rates, which have significantly risen in every state after those rates were deregulated, even though the point of deregulating insurance was supposed to make it cheaper (at least, that is what the politicians told people).

Some people do not grasp that healthcare does not work like most markets. Honestly, have you ever heard of anyone choosing a doctor because the doctor was having a discount or had the best prices? No, it is an entirely different beast that requires a different solution.

 

Maybe we don't see that because they're can't advertise in a way that competes with pharmaceutical companies or insurance companies... basically creating an oligopoly where much of the money spent on health care does not go to doctors and health care professionals; instead it goes to corporations that are in cahoots with the insurance companies and your local congressman - which grew out of outsourcing and a government encouraged program to get Americans covered by private health insurance.  They created a fascist/corporatist system where the government and several large companies got to pick the insurance companies that would get lucky.  Just like now they pick banks, who lost the most, to save.  This isn't free market or natural market health care.  This is people, who aren't healing people, abusing a the system to make money.

It's not just for the money. No? It's for a shit-load of money.

Give me paw.