OBAMA approval PLUMMETS to a dreadful 40%

[Ail]

Viper1 said:
THX, that is still anecdotal. An anecdote just means a personal story.

See, you have BCBS and pay $1,666 per month for your family's health insurance. But did you get to shop around for that insurance? Did you get to check competitors? Or were you forced to be stuck with that insurance?

When businesses like insurance are given monopolistic opportunities that are backed by the government combined with cost ballooning measures also because of government intervention, you get high costs.

Those 50 million without insurance can usually get government funded insurance with the same access to the same health care professionals and treatments (mostly) as your overly expensive corporate package.

Get it all out of the way and let the market find a balance. Like I've noted before. Look at Lasik surgery. It's getting cheaper and much more accurate. Same with ALL elective cosmetic surgeries and procedures. How do they manage to reduce costs and increase quality? Government isn't involved...nor are most insurance carriers.

In which world do you live ?

Next you're going to tell us that people without a job would have a one in a free market economy and that everyone would be swimming in money ?

Here's another annecdot for you.

My wife have severe arthritis and Psoriasis .

Before we met she was not able to get insurance because of those and the only treatment available to her was a test trial of a new med at a local university.

Now she has insurance through me and the company plan where I work and this is the only reason she has access to the only treatment that really works for her. That treatment is Enbrel.

Without insurance , a refill of Enbrel for a month is 2500$. Yes, I said two thousands and five hundreds dollars for 10 shots...

That's 30k a year.

Add the specialists visit every month and you easilly get a total of over 50k a year of health related spendings. More some years as Enbrel negates her immune system so she catches every nasty virus around.

Now lets say we switch to a full free market system.

Which lucky company out there is going to stuck their neck out for people like her knowing that they will have to cover that amount of health spending every year ????

 

You tell me.......

 

Car insurance isn't regulated much, and the worse your history the more your insurance costs (but you actually had a say in your history).

Make health insurance the same and you will end up with the same result. Except in this case people don't have much responsability in their history and those with serious health issues will just be left out on the curb to die.......