Care v. Insurance
Corker says he’s for health insurance reform. However, I think he and those that oppose nationalized health insurance should keep making that distinction. One of the more effective bits of propaganda from the socialized medicine crowd is to label it health care reform. It has as much to do with health care reform as arguing over who pays the tab has on the quality of your dinner.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Reminds me of “comprehensive immigration reform”…
August 27th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
congress has the complete power, and isn’t that part of the problem already really, to regulate the insurance biz. They could write a law on 1 page saying that nobody could be turned down.
They have ZERO power to mandate you have insurance, fine you if you do not.
The problem is not with the insurance biz, health care providers, or even lawyers. The problem is with the intervention of government.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
We’re supposed to think that if you don’t have insurance, you don’t have health care, just as if your being without starvation insruance means you don’t eat. Ever. But they have no interest in de-regulating medical insurance.
In fact this has nothing to do with insurance or medical care. It’s about one thing only– control. These leftists are in fact Fascists. They’re extremely dangerous and they have to be stopped.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Health care reform is generally supported by many people. The problem is that the obamacare massive bill is an abomination. Reform must be incremental and reviewable.
If the parts of the massive bill came through in parts to stand to vote individually, reforms would be made, but since all the good is being packaged with the bad it needs to be stopped.
If each part were allowed a chance and then were reviewed for renewal by a sunset clause, the really bad ones could be flushed or reworked before they became a permanent injury for the country.
Insurance reform is justifiable, but the state level regulations of insurance companies should also be brought under control. Look at how the people’s republic of massachusetts regulates health insurance and you have a perfect example of a state that is destroying cost effective insurance.
Tort reform would have huge savings, but it’s not even in the bill. Imagine what would happen to insurance costs if the lawyers didn’t get their 40% of massive lawsuits.