Rising Health Care Costs Mean less Pay, Fewer Raises, Lost Jobs

[alatide]

No, I showed before in a report that the average insurance company makes less than 4% profit. That is very modest and reasonable.

On the other hand, trial lawyers make anywhere from 40% or more on these huge lawsuits. In a million dollar case a lawyer would make 400 grand or more. Pretty good pay for maybe 100 hours of work tops.

And you are the one who was injured or crippled and may need that money to survive on. Why should they get so much??

But guess who the single biggest donors to the Democratic Party have been for decades? You got it, trial lawyers.

This is why the original bill introduced by the Dems did not have one word on tort reform. They are looking out for these ambulance chasers who stash money in their pockets.

You really do not understand what is going on.

You don't read very well. I agreed that tort reform would help a lot.

 

[targus]

Existing legislation will set as a national goal improved health care for everyone. It will allow for people with pre-existing conditions to obtain insurance at a reasonable price. But it won't do everything. Frankly, it's hard to do ANYTHING with all Republicans opposing any move in that direction.

I agree with many here that we also need to have tort reform to reduce the misuse of malpractice cases that have no merit and to reduce the amount of money doctors have to pay for malpractice insurance.

I also believe that we need to once again reach out to our allies to shoulder more of the load for keeping the world safe. We can not and should not do it alone. I think we can take a hard look at the military and make it much more efficient and still maintain its primary objective which is to keep America safe. After all, the pentagon's auditors admitted that they couldn't account for $2.3T in funding. Looking at that figure, I think we can cut our military spending in half.

Thank you for your thoughtfilled post.

But you did not address my questions.

 

[rbell]

>“My wife and I consider it a moral obligation to try to provide health care to our employees if we can,”

Doesn't compute. Does he consider a moral obligations to provide company transportation to work and lunches? Maybe a company shrink? Why not pay a higher wage and let his employees solve their own personal problems?

See what labor unions do to folks? It makes them so very ungrateful...

 

[rbell]

Existing legislation will set as a national goal improved health care for everyone. It will allow for people with pre-existing conditions to obtain insurance at a reasonable price. But it won't do everything. Frankly, it's hard to do ANYTHING with all Republicans opposing any move in that direction.

No it won't.

It will lead to a system collapse.

Follow me here: The legislation is going to "outlaw pre-existing conditions." Kind of like having your house catch fire, and while it's burning, and the truck's coming, you call and put more coverage on the structure. In addition, there will be penatlies for non-insurance...but these are likely to be low enough that people who are healthy will simply pay the fine...then when they get sick, they'll get insurance.

This will send insurance companies belly-up in a matter of months...since their expenses will be several times more than their income. Not that it matters...because even if you do have insurance, the number of doctors that will quit will cause such a shortage so as to make for interminable waits.


Not exactly the "cure" you hoped for, eh?




On the brighter side, I do agree with you on tort reform. I guess New Orleans did freeze over.

 

[Revmitchell]

No it won't.

It will lead to a system collapse.

Which is the goal.