Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Fox Suggests How to Protect the Chickens…

So, on the front page of today's Oregonian was a little story about how the insurance industry wants to weigh in on the health-care crisis.

Their solution? Mandatory health insurance. Pass a law that every man, woman and family in America be required to purchase health insurance.

WTF???!?!?

I can just picture the gaggle of avaricious brain trusts sitting around a conference table racking their brains for this one… "Hey! WE can help! All we have to do is make it so that everyone in the country HAS to buy our product!"

And what does the public get in return? A promise of equal access to decent health care? A promise that costs will be cut so that we can actually afford to purchase this mandatory health insurance?

Ummm….no. But hey…they DO promise to stop denying insurance coverage to folks with pre-existing conditions. With…uhhh… no guarantees that those folks will not have to pay MORE for their coverage because they might actually have to use it…

Somebody please tell me the Obama Administration will give this plan all the consideration it deserves…


 

 

4 comments:

emmapeelDallas said...

Oh, they've been working on this. Wednesday night on NPR there was a story about how United Health Care is now offering UnitedHealth Continuity, insurance against becoming uninsured. Uh-huh. For 20% of the premium you'd pay if you WERE insured, you can have insurance in abeyance, I guess. This is only for people who currently have insurance but are afraid they might lose their jobs and their insurance. Which of course is what COBRA is for, except with COBRA, you are actually paying for insurance coverage. These people ought to be ashamed of themselves.

JACKIE said...

I would be willing to pay taxes to go into a fund to set up a single payer system a la Canada or Great Britain. I'm not willing to fund this bunch of bozo's. And I'm eligible for COBRA, to the tune of nearly 300.00 a month. I haven't used my insurance in the last two years. They don't cover herbs or other alternatives.

Debra said...

...and then the scorpio bit him on the head, cuz that's his nature. i don't know what the answer is, but i have a few suggestions and there are some organizations that listen, and then take those ideas and combine them with other ideas, and POOF! make some interesting solutions. i'd say, if you have some idears, let others know; we can't rely on the gov to fix-it, but we can pressure them to listen. that's my buck fiddy, grins, debra

Cynthia said...

I love it! Make it a law that everybody has to buy insurance, but do nothing to make it more accessible to those who can't afford it. Then poverty really will be a crime. Then arrest those who show up sick and uninsured at emergency rooms. Assuming the sickies survives until after a trial, they can then get government provided health care in prison. See, it all works out in the end.