I already have health insurance I am happy with, so why throw it away for a new Healthcare system?
Rebecca A asked:
I worked for years to earn my healthcare insurance, just as all of my colleagues. When I needed health insurance, I took a job that offered it.
My brother, on the other hand, chose to enter the military, and so he therefore has a lifetime health insurance plan thru the VA, as a Vets do.
Hillary wants all that to end all these options in favor of government-handled universal healthcare.
Why should those of us who already have healthcare insurance want to abandon it for Hillary’s plan? Is that fair?
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I worked for years to earn my healthcare insurance, just as all of my colleagues. When I needed health insurance, I took a job that offered it.
My brother, on the other hand, chose to enter the military, and so he therefore has a lifetime health insurance plan thru the VA, as a Vets do.
Hillary wants all that to end all these options in favor of government-handled universal healthcare.
Why should those of us who already have healthcare insurance want to abandon it for Hillary’s plan? Is that fair?
November 26th, 2008 at 2:01 am
You don’t have to you’ll just pay LESS. Savvy.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
because you don’t matter to Hillary or Obama, only the people that need to vote for them to keep getting free stuff matter
November 29th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Nothing about Hillary’s stances are fair for the working men and women in the long run…she wants to “garnish” people’s wages if they don’t buy into her Hillarycare..sounds an awful lot like communism to me…..
November 30th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
because many people cant get or are not happy with there health insurance any we need to think of everyone when it comes to health care
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:58 am
The government tells you what to think, stop thinking for yourself. Hillary will do what is best for the “common good” and for the children! =)
Ignorance is strength!
December 6th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Cause there are people unlike you and me. Who want us paying so they can take care of themselves.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I do not favor Hillary or her plan. But, I am one of the millions who cannot afford private health insurance. I have been self-employed since 1989.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hillary doesn’t want to end your insurance.
Unfortunately, I have had to pay ever increasing costs for medical insurance that costs less and less. About 15% of the population has no insurance at all. I would rather hospitals not have to pick up the costs of the indigent. The government can manage medical care well – it already does this through the VA.
So, it’s making sure that everybody can get health care. Making tax advantages to pay for medical care doesn’t do much for people with little money.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I have 100% coverage too. But what would happen to me if I got sick and couldn’t work anymore? Have you looked at how expensive insurance is under COBRA? What about people that don’t have insurance. Do you shop at Walmart? Their employees can’t afford the lousy insurance they offer. We all need help, that is why I am voting for Hillary.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:52 am
you don’t have to give up your healthcare you have now. its for people who don’t have insurance.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Well, one word. Socialism. Then comes Communism. If we become socialist, America should revolt and start a new relovutionary war, and go Politician Hunting.
December 13th, 2008 at 8:15 am
If “free” government health care is such a good idea, why do I fore go my entitlement to it as a retired military member and pay for the insurance offered by my employer?
Because government health care *****.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
actual health care is secondary . mandated insurance for Americans would be payback for those huge campaign donations the gave her . face it all dems and repubs have become totally corrupt . vote Nader .
December 18th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
If you think that you’re health insurance is good, you really don’t know too much about health insurance. The costs of healthcare can only go up with competition, this is what economists usually refer to as a natural monopoly. The ideal solution to a natural monopoly situation is to create only one provider in each market area, and heavily regulate that market, as we have done with electricity, etc.
The fact is that the U.S. spends over 2 trillion dollar per year on health insurance, or more than 60% of the total spent in the ENTIRE WORLD! About half of this spending is public spending. The 1 trillion tax dollars we spend every year on subsidising hospitals and insurance companies (this does not include investments in pharmaceutical industries) would more than pay for every American to have FAR better coverage than ANY current insurance carrier offers here. Why does our current system cost so much in tax dollars? Take, for example, a patient with a heart problem. If that patient has good insurance and doesn’t have to pay a high co-pay for doctor visits, that heart problem will be caught early, the patient will be put on medication or other treatment, and life will go on. The total cost of the doctor visit will be a couple hundred bucks, plus subsequent visits and prescriptions (still, not that much). In our current system, that patient is likely to wait until the problem becomes much worse. If the same patient waits until he/she has a heart-attack, the cost will skyrocket from a few thousand dollars over a long period of time, to a cost of tens, maybe even hundred of thousands of dollars in a matter of weeks. Cancer patients? If their cancer gets caught early, it would likely cost in the range of 20-30 thousand dollars to operate, far less than that to simply treat it. If the cancer lingers, however, the cost can easily range in the one to two million dollar range.
The money that will be saved from preventative medicine will make our healthcare system far stronger than it is (currently an abysmal 37th in the world, just behind Costa Rica). Other ways that we can save money are cutting management costs (currently well over half the cost of healthcare in America) and tort-reform that will save doctors from having to shell out thousands for mal-practice insurance for bogus claims. An overhaul of our nation’s healthcare system would also create thousands upon thousands of new jobs, and high paying ones to boot! You really have to look past all of the pandering and issue-spinning out there to see the truth, but you’ll see it if you look (think) hard enough!
December 20th, 2008 at 5:20 am
N O T … just Hillary !!! … Obama TOO !!!
PLEASE … watch this !!!!
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IF YOU had spent years getting a PhD and then the government TELLS you that your ability to make a really good living is being taken away, WHAT would YOU do ?? Probably the same thing that a lot of medical professional would do … change careers !!! With that kind of education, WHO wants to be told that your income is limited and you have to SEE a hundred people a day and you cannot provide quality care because you are rushed???
Would Universal HealthCare end up being like our Social Security system – THAT ELECTED POLITICIANS ARE NOT A PART OF, BECAUSE THEY HAVE AND SUPPORT their own Retirement system – - – the Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan?
SO, WHY would they WANT to FIX a government program that THEY are NOT REQUIRED to participate in?
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December 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am
Her plans are to make those who have ins. toadd more money to the ins. to make up for those who do not have it. So your ins. comp. will charge larger premiems.You will pay for others. Plus they will tell you what medical you can have done.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:51 am
Yes thank you, I’m in the same boat as your brother. We joined the military and worked for out medical and now they want to force me into some dumb universal health care? Thanks but no thanks and they aren’t going to make me do it. I refuse to pay for someone’s health when they won’t work for theirs. If this UHC comes to pass, I will stop working, my medical is paid for.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Just send all the money you’ll save to Africa or something.