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Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for lease in upscale Campal/Miramar beach area, Panaji, Goa. Contact: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 18:16:31 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]> a: The Insurance Companies are running patients ragged with HUGE increases in Health Care premiums. They blame it on the increased cost of health care. They do NOT explain HOW they manage to buy such huge properties and give their CEOs the bonuses they dish out every year. These insurance companies could be described as loan sharks. Mario responds: JC, as an "expert" on American health care [:-))] surely you know that the 1,300 health insurance companies are prevented from freely competing with each other across state lines by the "powers that be", a.k.a state governments, who also dictate, on a state by state basis, every detail that they should cover, which may also include sex change operations. This is unlike any other insurance in America where stiff national competition keeps costs low for everyone. The best way to punish the insurance companies is hardly to add yet another government run insurance company to the mix, grossly inefficient by definition, but to remove restrictions on the ones that exist and let them compete nationally. That will lead to fewer of them, each with more insured persons which will make the actuarial system more efficient for everyone and lead to lower costs. JC wrote: Drug Companies are unbelieveably unscrupulous. The recent $2 Billion fine on Pfizer is just the tip of the iceberg. Mario observes: Pfizer's infraction had to do with inappropriate marketing. They didn't get away with it, did they? The $2.3 BILLION fine should teach every drug company a lesson. JC wrote: c: Doctors - while many are good and believe that they will make a decent living while providing good quality care for their patients, some are ruthless in their quest to buy the next real estate property in the sun. Mario responds: This is a calumny as a generality, and you know it, especially with Medicare reducing their reimbursements year by year and malpractice premiums rising year by year. JC wrote: d: Malpractice lawyers are hawks ....surveying the scene for their next 'kill'. This in turn gets the Insurance Companies into the act. They raise the malpractice premiums. Every time the premiums go up, because a doctor got sued, the Insurance companies grab another 'pot of gold'. Mario observes: This problem has been excluded in every Democrat proposal currently being considered, because they are in the pockets of the trial lawyers. This proves that Obama and his forty Czars do not have the public interest at heart. Even the other Goanet "expert" wrote FOUR essays on the US health care system with one passing reference to medico-legal problems, and no mention that tort reform is essential to any meaningful reform. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26707.html JC wrote: [3] Best to go with the plan aka "Obamacare". The LEFT will be happy, The RIGHT will force a drawback of 66.6%. [4] What he will be left with is Healthcare for the Uninsured aka Public Option. Mario responds: Perhaps you are unaware that Obama does not have a plan of his own so far. He has been hiding behind the plans of others and saying things that are at variance from those plans, either intentionally or unintentionally. In addition, there are signs that he has given up on the public option, since he doesn't have the votes in the Senate to pass it. http://www.therightperspective.org/2009/08/17/obama-drops-public-option-libs-whine/ Besides no one in America wants a health care system that looks like this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6127514/Sentenced-to-death-on-the-NHS.html http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5517492&page=1 http://www.nypost.com/seven/08172009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/its_all_a_death_panel_184897.htm Since I can't be elected President, and your preference of a public option is unlikely to pass muster, President Obama should try my solution which is guaranteed to work. Of course, he will have to give up his longer term plan to make the US more like Venezuela where his Comrade Hugo runs roughshod over any opposition: 1. Pass tort reform so that doctors can practice medicine based on medical standards and not legal standards 2. De-regulate the 1,300 private health insurance companies so that they can compete nationwide just like every other insurance company 3. Give individuals the same tax breaks for buying health insurance that corporations get 4. Use taxpayer money to buy private health insurance for the 15 million hard core uninsurables who are in this situation through no fault of their own 5. Resign and go back to Chicago and run again after he learns to walk the talk and get some real experience. He may want to start at the beginning by running a lemonade stand to understand the basics of the American economic system, a country whose business is business, not community agitating. With the money we save from Item 5, we will be able to afford Item 4 and then some.
