Hospitals / Doctors now refusing to take Medicare

[Excaliber]

I keep waiting for someone to mention there is no Government run health plan being discussed in the current health bill. Which may or may not even pass.

OK, with the out of the way, proceed with our regular program, Government health plan bashing.

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

I keep waiting for someone to mention there is no Government run health plan being discussed in the current health bill. Which may or may not even pass.

OK, with the out of the way, proceed with our regular program, Government health plan bashing.

Part of what you want to call a non-Government health INSURANCE plan, takes away the insurance industry's ability to underwrite policies. Without underwriting, the insurance industry becomes the administrators of the De Facto Government health insurance plan.
Presently, insurance is REGULATED by each state, but insurance companies CAN underwrite policies [Which happens to be 100% necessary to produce an affordable product].
Under obummer "care," the insurance industry becomes CONTROLLED, by the Federal Government, thereby making the entire health and insurance industry a "Government Plan!" The "Government Option talk was a smokescreen to hide the reality of this enormous boondoggle!

And what is your guess? For every one societal parasite that gets insurance coverage, how many PAYING Seniors will loose access to health CARE? As Doctors and Hospitals refuse to accept lower and lower reimbursement.

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by Excaliber

I keep waiting for someone to mention there is no Government run health plan being discussed in the current health bill. Which may or may not even pass.

OK, with the out of the way, proceed with our regular program, Government health plan bashing.

You may cal it Goverment health plan bashing if you like, I call it history...................

Look at the goverment's history of running ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Postal Service
Social Security Administration
VA Hospitals
Medicare/Medicade
The welfare system we now have.......
What do they all have in common????? Broke or going broke!!!!!!!!!

Why is the postal system broke and UPS is not??????????
Answer: because the goverment runs the postal system and not UPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Past history proves the goverment will not be able to run health care 1/2 as good as the private sector......

Look at the other countries that have goverment run health care (ie Canada/England), 2 to 3 months waiting for an x-ray for your broken leg,same for most other ailments, lack of doctors/nurses to staff the hospitals......wondery why????? why should anyone want to become a doctor to work for the goverment making 60 grand a year after 12 years and thousands of thousands of dollars in schooling????? same goes for nurses.........

Did you ever wonder why 1/2 or more of the doctors in any hospital in America are from a foreign country?????????? Go ask anyone of them why they practise medicine in America and not in their homeland, I think you'll have your answer.........

What part of all of this do you not understand or comprehend?????????

David