bfb8688's Comments (11)

“Eager to learn.? .........get really sick.”

“Wasting time explaining to you the question I asked since you managed to distort it all out of context to try and make single payer the boogey man is futile. Let me make it quick and clear.

Congress has been bought by the health industry with campaign contributions. The best that you got right is that there is no free market except for those who own it by owning the seats in Congress. They don't have to actually sit in those seats to demand the market work but only for them.

Skepticism? Frightening? Let a bean counter stand in the way of you and death and then come back and tell me about how the insurance executive suite is looking out for my health. In this case I'll take my chances with government.”

“The free market works when the greedy drive for profits aligns incentives in positive ways. For luxury goods, it works really well as prices are set with supply vs demand. When it comes to something that one needs to such as health insurance, the drive for profit aligns incentives against the interests of the American people. In the case of health insurance, it is advantageous to find technicalities to deny coverage when someone makes a claim within the obvious plan rules, often called rescission. It is advantageous for companies to make complicated sets of rules to specify what is covered and in what specific circumstances. This also makes it harder for people to tell which plan is better, allowing marketing to fill in the gap. Management thinks its good for management to make even more money nearly all of the time. As their compensation increases, the percentage of the money spent on claims is reduced, inflating insurance prices.

If the free market is so good at being efficient in all cases, then why are we spending a significantly higher amount of our GDP on health care than other industrialized nations that have single payer plans?”

“I see, Russia had a plan, so no one should ever plan again. Gotcha.”