The Health Care Law.

[chickened]

Yes. It also has to do with how the insurance companies have insinuated themselves into the system, using medical billing practices that are all but impossible to understand. I wish we could come up with alternatives that don't depend on insurance companies as they are now. How much of my insurance premium is taken up by administrative costs (and how much more will be taken by government bureaucracy)? I would love to pay the doctor directly.

I do know this all insurance companies have lawyers on retainers and they are constantly being sued for frivolous suits by trial lawyers and they have to pay them off all the time to avoid a legal entanglement. And there are no shortages of trial lawyers.

 

[hemet dennis]

But it's a fact that the more you give people the more some will take. Denmark has found that out-

Danish studies show that the longer a person goes without a job, the harder it is to find work. Many people get a job within the first three months of entering the system, but many more wait until just before benefits expire to take anything available.
“So you need to have a period of unemployment that is as short as possible,” Claus Hjort Frederiksen, the finance minister, told me recently in Copenhagen.
Consider this 2009 chart from Denmark’s Labor Market Commission:

But as Matthew pointed out there will always be people that need and deserve help.
Opp's forgot the link
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/why-denmark-is-shrinking-its-social-safety-net/

 

[Royd]

I appreciate your joke about a Lifetime Priority Bill

The only reason I think this "intrusion" by the government is necessary is because failure to purchase your own health insurance negatively affects those with health insurance. I think one of the main functions of government is to enforce rules that prevent one person from unfairly benefiting from another person. Auto insurance is mandatory because the rights of the person you might hit with your car need to be protected. Health insurance should be mandatory because the rights of the few who are paying for the many need to be protected, and the playing field evened. Life insurance, on the other hand, is NOT mandatory because if you don't have it, only your family is screwed and not me.

I hope Obama has his way. As a nurse I think I am paid a ridiculous amount of money. I chose this profession in high school before I had any idea what the salary would be. We should instead be focusing on the unfair costs of higher education, necessitating that a person incur an enormous student loan to become a health care professional.

Where do we stop with paying another person's life expenses.....As I have said before, it's time to bring the troops home from that War on Poverty. It's going on a 50 year war, and we are throwing money into a black hole. No racism intended. And my point has always been that those who pay no income tax; almost 50% of the nation, many of which use the EIC as a huge paycheck, are never going to be in a position to pay for something as expensive as health insurance. The fine is not going to come near the cost offset.

Then, there's that fact that those who have been reluctant to go to the doctor or hosp, will now feel it's their privilege to exploit the system for all it's worth, thus, creating logjams in an already strained system.

Once the govt. gets their hands on the day to day operations of whole system, the thing will slow down to a crawl....If Obama had his way, every worker would be unionized, and we all know what that does the average worker's ambition and mentality. Peer pressure overwhelms those who would step up to the plate and do an honest day's work....I can see, just like the winter of '10 in NYC by the sanitation workers, and intentional sick out during the height of flu season.

 

[thaiturkey]

I now hope that the people who would take food away from children living in poverty one day find themselves in want with no one to help them.

Here here!

Same for health care.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

But it's a fact that the more you give people the more some will take. Denmark has found that out-

Danish studies show that the longer a person goes without a job, the harder it is to find work. Many people get a job within the first three months of entering the system, but many more wait until just before benefits expire to take anything available.
“So you need to have a period of unemployment that is as short as possible,” Claus Hjort Frederiksen, the finance minister, told me recently in Copenhagen.
Consider this 2009 chart from Denmark’s Labor Market Commission:

But as Matthew pointed out there will always be people that need and deserve help.
Opp's forgot the link
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/why-denmark-is-shrinking-its-social-safety-net/

People are much less careful when spending others' money.

 

[Royd]

I now hope that the people who would take food away from children living in poverty one day find themselves in want with no one to help them.

Noone's taking food away from children living in poverty...It's the people who can't quite make it down to the poverty level who have to worry.

 

[hemet dennis]

Quote:
Quote: TT
Here here!

Same for health care.


People that wish bad on others. Oh well

 

[redhen]

Noone's taking food away from children living in poverty...It's the people who can't quite make it down to the poverty level who have to worry.

Yep..

 

[redhen]

People are much less careful when spending others' money.

Yep...

 

[redhen]

Quote: TT
Here here!

Same for health care.


People that wish bad on others. Oh well




                                

Yep...