[Vision2020] Health care {insurance} reform passed

[Garrett Clevenger]

Kit writes:


"Those of us who have paid through the nose for other's medical bills may now get something for ourselves."






Who do you think will subsidize health care for high risk people insurance companies are now obligated to provide service to?


Who's going to pay for health care of people who have unhealthy lifestyles and presumably higher health care costs?


Who's going to pay for the ad campaigns insurance companies are sure to launch in an attempt to lure suckers, er, subscribers, into their ponzi scheme?  Instead of going to treat patients, health dollars now will be going to ads.


Let's not forget the $250 giveaway seniors will be getting next year as part of this plan. Who's paying for that?


Not insignificantly, $500 billion of planned payments the feds make for medicare payments will be cut.  With that, insurance companies are losing a $200 billion subsidy they get for providing a private alternative to medicare. Who's paying for that shortfall?


The feds created another ponzi while shuffling the cards.  Like all ponzi's, they are not sustainable. 20 years from now they're gonna wonder how they're gonna finance another entitlement program.


Only this time, we're obligated to private companies. Talk about taxation without representation!


Why are costs escalating?  


Health care is expensive, especially towards the later years of a person's life.  That's not going to change under this plan.


Insurance company overhead is also expensive and will probably still continue to be so.


The only reason costs would go down for an individual is if they get subsidized insurance.


Somebody has to pay for that and more than likely it'll be future generations who once again are being indebted by people who don't want to pay the true cost of their individual care.


While it would be nice to think that somehow health care costs will stabilize or decrease and that other people should pay for your care, that's unrealistic and selfish.


But perhaps I'm missing something.  Maybe they created a magic bag of money that is never ending, maybe CEO's will take a big pay cut, maybe high-tech medicine will now be cheap, maybe care costs for old people will drop.


Probably, though, everyone's premiums will continue to rise while the insurance coverage you get will continue to fall.  There is only so much to go around, after all.


And now that we're mandated to buy insurance from a private company, we've all been sucked into the great health care ponzi.


At least their intentions we're good in not the unintended consequences...



Garrett Clevenger
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