What will happen to Insurance Agents if we get Universal Health Care?
Ivanka F asked:
If any of the democrats get into office they seem determined to create universal healthcare system. What will happen to the 500,000+ people that work in the health insurance industry? Do all those people loose their job to governemnt order takers? Personally, I don’t want the government handeling my healthcare. I am a registered democrat that plans to vote republican if the democrats keep on with this universal healthcare.
If any of the democrats get into office they seem determined to create universal healthcare system. What will happen to the 500,000+ people that work in the health insurance industry? Do all those people loose their job to governemnt order takers? Personally, I don’t want the government handeling my healthcare. I am a registered democrat that plans to vote republican if the democrats keep on with this universal healthcare.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
the healthcare will not cover everything, don’t worry about insurance companies, they’ll always make loads of money.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
None of the plans have any indication of removing the current system, they will just be adding to it. Which means another entire new paid for life federal department with pensions and better healthcare than any of us will ever have.
The worry you should have is the job losses in every industry across the board. Here are some facts to wrap your mind around:
Small to mid-sized American companies employ 70% of non-government Americans.
These same companies are being forced to “compete” with countries that have no EPA, no OSHA, no child labor laws, no minimum wage AND they get government hand outs to take our business away.
These “plans” will fall squarely on the shoulders of the already struggling small business. So, in order to keep the doors open they will have to let more people go.
Or as thousands are already doing, say F it and close their doors.
Wake up America before we are all on welfare.
This “universal healthcare plan” is just another word for unemployed and starving. Enjoy!
May 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
I am going to answer your question the best way I know how. If we get universal health care the whole medical system will suffer. Not just insurance agents and companies. If there is a government controlled health care system. The profit incentive will be removed from health care. The doctors and specialist that now go to medical school for 12+ years of training in some cases will dry up. Why would you go to medical school and run up all that debt if you can’t get rich in your profession?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Not likely. Private health insurance will still exist, and the people that DO get laid off, can get jobs working for the government, doing the same thing at a higher pay, with less effeciency.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Last time Hillary was involved with health care in the early nineties a woman approached her and said “If we get universal health care what happens to me? I sell health insurance for a living.”
Hillary told her “You seem like a smart woman. I’m sure you’ll find something else to do”.
Compassionate huh.