I can't say that the health insurance industry has failed in their objective... which isn't " health care coverage for every American and I want it run efficiently and with the best combination of low cost and high quality "
It's "health care at the highest possible profit for the insurance companies", which they've succeeded at.. and therein lies the heart of the problem. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:44 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: is it just me or is this a bad idea? On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > This congresswoman admits that the goal of the single payer health care > system supporters is to destroy the private health insurance industry. Is > that really what we want? I thought reform was about providing basic care to > everyone and more choice for consumers, not mandating another huge federal > bureaucracy. Yes, that is really what I want. Or rather, I want health care coverage for every American and I want it run efficiently and with the best combination of low cost and high quality. If the private health insurance industry can do that, awesome. It has had a significant amount of time, however, in which to try and do that and has failed spectacularly. If the health insurance industry can come up with the best plan that meets our goals then I'm all for it. I am not for keeping them in business for the sake of keeping them in business. We do not owe any industry a profit or continued existence in this country. If the government can do a better job of meeting the requirements than private industry, then private industry loses. If private industry can do it better, then I'm in favor of private industry. You seem to take it as a given that having government in charge of something is inherently bad. I do not agree. There is nothing inherently good or bad about government. I don't care who does it so long as it gets done. The private health insurance industry is a spectacularly bad deal for America thus far. There is good reason to believe that a single payer government plan would be much better. I'm open to hearing from private insurance on their plans and I'm sure given their billions of dollars that we will hear extensively. Let them make their case for survival. If they cannot, then they are off to the dustbin of history like the rest of the dinosaurs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296594 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
