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Originally Posted by aceventura3
My gut tells me that we would be better to move in the direction of requiring every able American to "purchase" healthcare. I think it is a joke that we make sure that virtually every automobile and every building is insured but not every human life. Think about it some more and you find that in most states a guy who rides a motorcyle is force to wear a helmet, because of 'costs to society if he gets hurt', but he doesn't have to have health insurance using the same logic.  |
I would agree if I thought that putting our medical care in the hands of insurance executives instead of our government would result in better, less expensive care. Maybe it would, but I have some doubts that they would have our best interests in mind or be able to control hospital costs.
As I understand it today they get hospitals, etc.. to agree to an amount for certain procedures for those who carry their insurance and the hospitals sometimes charge the uninsured 2 or 3 times that amount. I don't know how well it would work if insurance executives had everyone covered.