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Why are some people so adamant that having ONLY private medical insurance is best?

What do you think? This is a quote from the following article: "In addition, under the settlement, Health Net agreed to halt employee bonuses that were based in part on how many rescissions they performed." And here's the article, with other reputable links inside: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138914.php "Anthem Blue Cross Announces Settlements With California Insurance Department Over Rescinded Health Insurance Policies; Health Net Announces Settlement"

Public Comments

1. Because some people WORK FOR WHAT THEY WANT. Unlike liberals.
2. They have been brainwashed by right wing nut jobs.
3. Less money goes to the government, more to Doctors and hospitals. The "reform" will require thousands of people to administer the program, sending huge amounts of money to non-medical payroll and overhead.
4. cuase the insurance hoes like the Emergency rooms full of unemployed people with no medical coverage that way they can TOP BILL EVERY ONE hahah ahah ahahhahah
5. with Private insurance you do not need to request care and wait a month for approval to see a doctor
6. Because Private Insurance can not compete with a government program where it is funded by our money. Competition is the key to all of this.
7. Greedy capitalist pay right wing media to brainwash people so they can keep their cushiony, high paying, overcharging jobs. Republicans refuse to see this & grow up & question their beliefs so they go along with it.
8. Private healthcare insurance sucks! It's one of the biggest scams every foisted on the American public (and that's saying something!)
9. Consumer Choice. "WHO ELSE " what the hell are you sprewing!? Limbaugh is for CHOICE so he can't be an ayatollah for then he would be choosing for you, is that slooow enough for you to understand? Universal healthcare is the way of the ayatollah. I welcome healthy dialoque from all sides so do all my fellow freedom loving Americans speak WHO ELSE we won't shut YOU down.
10. It's called freedom of choice, those of us who work hard and can afford more deserve the quality of medical care we deem fit, not what the government thinks we need.
11. Number 1 reason is comparing the government run retirement plan Social Security vs a private plan. A private plan can not be pilfered without the pilferers facing charges and doing time. If you die after your kids turn 18 with a private plan they get the money with SS the government pockets it. Keep the government out of our paychecks and everyday lives!
12. Because if you want nice things, you have to pay for them! All socialized medicine will do, is make health care for the low income folks worse! Look at Canada. They have socialized health care. Guess who still gets better care? That's right, the one's who can afford PRIVATE insurance! And ask yourself this question: If this current health care reform is so great, and is going to make things better for the consumer, why are the big insurance companies OK with it? They should be fighting this bill tooth-and-nail. Must mean they will see some kind of benefit! Translation: Big business will win, and all of us will see no real benefits, but have higher costs.
13. Because with private insurance - I can switch to a competitor if I do not like their service. With a government plan - I would have no choices. And - my medical claims would be denied the moment they ran out of budget. Look at what happened with the VA and the GI Bill payments 3 years ago. They denied GI Bill claim from reservists who served in Iraq/Afghanistan (despite specific instructions from Congress) because they felt that they did not have the budget. Do you really want some government bureaucrat declaring: 'no heart bypasses - we are going over budget.'?
14. Well the government is doing such a stand up job with everything else they get into why should it bother a person? Medicaid/Medicare, rife with fraud from above and below and going broke. Social Security, A system dependent on contributions from working people, it is not self sustaining and is going broke. The VA, filled with incompetence and sub standard care, not even mentioning the red tape to achieve something. And you want government involved in health care over less than 10% of the population being uninsured?
15. Healthcare, like so many other arguments we are having boils down to what people believe government should and should not provide. Conservatives generally believe that government is a necessary evil. As such, it should not be involved in the more mundane aspects of our lives including the provision of health care. Liberals generally believe that government is a net positive benefit and that the more of our lives it manages for us, the more 'free' we are to pursue other interests. I believe like Lord Acton that 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'. The more power we vest into the hands of government bureaucrats the easier it for us to become the servant and government the master rather than us being the master over government. The government has already overstepped a number of its Constitutional boundaries and is expanding into every bit of our daily lives. The last thing we need is another agency doling out our health care based on who is 'useful' to society or not.
16. I don't believe any insurance is best. We are in the position we are now in because of medical insurance (both private and public). If people were not having to pay a family medical policy of around $1,000 (more or less depending on your particular situation) per month, they could easily afford the occasional medical expense out of their own pocket. And if it is an operation/procedure/treatment which costs more money than what an average person could afford, then they can be put on a medical payment plan (which bankruptcy does not protect). If people were forced to pay for a public plan which gives them no option, and determines the care they receive, they will be in an even worse position then they already are. Besides all of that, medical costs are so high because of medical insurance. The medical community charges so much because they know the insurers will pay it. If there was no one to pay it, they would be forced to compete on the open/free market for the real value and quality of the particular treatment. Drug and medical research can still go on with private and public grants/assistance. We don't have to have medical insurance companies paying exorbitant fees to our doctors/pharmacies/hospitals to keep our medical systems working. We just need to have costs brought back to reality, and allow the market to determine what "reality" is.
17. This government has run medicaid, medicare, social security and 12 other entitlement programs into bankruptcy. We're talking about that same government who can't run a railroad, or secure our borders or find 15-20 million illegal aliens invading our country. Please do tell me, in light of all this failure, what on God's green earth could possibly give you confidence in them taking over the health care system ? My email is open for you to respond. God bless.
18. That is the will of the Grand Ayatollah Limbaugh. No further discussion is allowed.
19. because good doctors are increasingly becoming the domain of the very rich, and thus becoming hard to find,
20. I guess they just don't understand.