Why Health Insurance Cost So Much! Wake Up America # 7
June 3rd, 2009 | by Rick |psychetruth asked:
Be My Friend - http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth Unaffordable Insurance! Wake Up America # 7 Why Insurance Health Care Cost Are So High. Related Videos Wake Up America # 1, Food Supply and Health Care Conspiracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at7RZMo9IP0 Wake Up America #2, Science of Profit, Corporate Takeover of Science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OWNdHgDmAY Wake Up America # 3, GMO Foods, Genetically Modified Organisms, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JHHGTvO2Y Wake Up America #4 …
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25 Responses to “Why Health Insurance Cost So Much! Wake Up America # 7”
By ELVIN on Jun 5, 2009 | Reply
IAN
I wore the uniform of this country for 26 years. If defending a capitalist country that considers life sustaining healthcare a moneymaker for those who can pay for it and restricts those who can’t, then I’m embarrassed to have called myself a defender of freedom. War, has many faces on many fronts, and the War for Healthcare needs anti-insurance legislation to regain America’s status as the greatest country on earth. Until then, were taking a backseat. Check the global health related stats.
By ZACHARY on Jun 7, 2009 | Reply
FRANCISCO
I don’t understand your shock and outrage. Of course it makes sense. They are selling a product and just like Pepsi & McDonald’s, the idea is to get your customer to buy as much of your product as possible. Doctors and pharmaceutical companies need to sell as much of their tests and drugs and surgeries to as many people from birth to death as they can. That is goal in the capitalist countries.
Hummn…This is how they are able to buy their huge houses in their gated communities.
By JARROD on Jun 9, 2009 | Reply
BILL
Healthcare is a Right, not a privilege. If so-called socialized healthcare works so well for the military and members of Congress, then why not the same for all Americans? If some “flag waver” believes that Americans should be forced to bankrupt themselves in order to stay alive, and that wealth equals health, then I can’t see how they sleep at night with a clear conscience and then wave the flag with the same vigor the next morning. Provide All Americans affordable healthcare. Retired Military
By GERARD on Jun 12, 2009 | Reply
SANDY
if there is anything I’ve enjoyed about You Tube most, it is having been able to read a great variety of opinions and get differing viewpoints. But I don’t let all the issues get to me anymore. I just work and maintain a low standard of living where I’m at. Health Ins. is out of my reach. For me I like to keep in touch on FaceBook with people I grew up with and at least maintain some form of healthy communication. Sure it won’t change the way things are, but it is somewhat mentally refreshing:)
By DEVON on Jun 14, 2009 | Reply
OWEN
one last point I wish to make, I grew up with and went to school with a lot of good people. I think and reflect upon everyone daily. Also in my travels across the Continental U.S., I’ve seen rich and poor areas alike with a lot of good people. Everyone is talented in their own way and has something to contribute to society. We just can’t seem to get on the same page when it comes down to the one and only thing we have left to use against the govt. THE VOTE.
By SERGIO on Jun 16, 2009 | Reply
AUBREY
well from the way I’ve seen life, I’ve had my fun growing up but sounds as if an entire generation of good people are being sacrificed for all that is going on now. Eventually it will get to a point where a bunch of likely scenarios can happen between state governments and the Fed. Used to have BCBS 100% PPO coverage in MI back in 2001. Can’t find that anymore. There was a time when there were stable career paths. Now the system is jeopardized to where no career is safe.
By ANDREA on Jun 17, 2009 | Reply
KIRBY
so hopefully I get cancer or a heart attack and die a quick death. I wouldn’t want to be brought back to face high medical debt and be a slave to a broken health care system. It would be different if I had a stable career and though that is something I’m always shooting for, it just isn’t there at this time. Tired of the rip offs in health insurance. You don’t get what you pay for and yes govt. intervention is also responsible.
By ROCCO on Jun 20, 2009 | Reply
REINALDO
from my viewpoint, I do a lot of temp. work to where I’m never stable and seems like companies in my area are not hiring permanent workers with benefits. this translates into not going out and buying health insurance because either way I’m broke if I’m hospitalized. Don’t make enough as is. Also when the U.S. government takes $293/mo out of your paychecks, why would I want to go broke even purchasing health insurance.
By CRAIG on Jun 22, 2009 | Reply
JOSEF
We don’t have health insurance in the USA any more. It is illegal to offer it. With real health insurance, the plan covers only catastrophic expenditures, and the insurer can use any criteria it wants to determine a customer’s premiums. Our government has abolished this, and mainly with the support of the people.
Thus, turning health and sickness into a political issue is the problem. You are apalled by Big Pharma and other large corporations? Big Government has empowered them.
By LEOPOLDO on Jun 23, 2009 | Reply
BILL
well thats an awfully hard job. im afraid that there will always be conflicts of interest, at least one.
By RODGER on Jun 26, 2009 | Reply
ELTON
It’s just like how the oil companies make more money when the price of oil is higher. Both the insurance companies and oil companies are making a profit margin on their product. If oil or medical care were to cost half as much, they would not like it at all.
By TIMMY on Jun 29, 2009 | Reply
ROYAL
We need a complete separation of government and corporate interests. The problem is, the only way to correct government oversight of big pharma is to correct public oversight of government, and that’s not happening anytime soon. The majority of our public is clinically insane and irrational.
By BRADY on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
EMERSON
you all need to realize that it is the FDA who has approved toxins such as aspartame, MSG, and flouride in our water. THEY ARE NOT HERE TO HELP US ANYMORE! Look into Donald Rumsfeld’s ties to searle chemicals and the coup of the FDA under the Reagan administration. The government is trying to dumb us down. The health care system is just another form of economic warfare against the people of this country.
By ROBBY on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
VALENTIN
LeifRunenritzer: From the way you talk about freedom, government and coercion I thought for a moment that you might be a fellow Anarchist. But then after what je5752 said your only response was more dogma, so I thought you might be a stalinist commie, or maybe a republican.
I don’t like government getting more power either and it would be *great* if we could organise healthcare locally. But at the moment *we can’t* and people are dying, for stupid ideology and to make rich people richer.
By TOMMIE on Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
THURMAN
Until the early 20th century, benefit societies fulfilled services we now assume government bureaucracy must fulfill. Thousands of privately funded charities used to provide health services to the poor. But now, why should someone be charitable when income taxes supposedly fulfill one’s obligation to the less-fortunate?
When at last we’re fully dependent on government, it won’t have to give us anything.
By MAJOR on Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
JOSE
Isn’t it strange that the more government intervention we have in healthcare, the worse it’s gotten? Did you know that before Medicare and Medicaid, the poor and elderly were admitted into hospitals at about the same rate they are now, and that free medical care for the poor was common? Excessive regulation and liability standards have made free care cost prohibitive for medical professionals.
By GERARD on Jul 4, 2009 | Reply
ERIK
Govt intervention got us here. In the 70s, employers had to provide HMO coverage, and they were allowed to deduct this from taxes, but individuals weren’t. In the 90s, we had to pay new income taxes for Medicare and Medicaid. This allows insurance companies to rely on bigger money from corporations and government and they no longer cater directly to the consumer. Add some inflation gravitating toward healthcare, and prices climb. As long as “someone else” is paying the bill, it will be too high.
By BRADFORD on Jul 7, 2009 | Reply
WILLARD
Is it social cooperation when we only interact through our government? Is it cooperation when government takes from someone by coercion and gives a little of it to someone else? Freedom works, but we’ve lost our ability to imagine how a free people can accomplish anything voluntarily.
By KEITH on Jul 10, 2009 | Reply
EMIL
And leave big pharma with out any oversight at all?
The FDA doesn’t need to be dismantled. The conflicts of interest need to be removed from it and it needs to do it’s job.
By CEDRIC on Jul 11, 2009 | Reply
KEITH
is it possible to dismantle the FDA?
By LUTHER on Jul 11, 2009 | Reply
KAREEM
Polemics and ideology don’t do much good when you’re facing starvation, sickness, and death. Regardless of how idealistically wonderful your ideas are people will reject them if they are in a position of suffering.
If you are going to stand by your ideology then you need to provide people with the knowledge they need to make that ideology function. So how do you pay for your healthcare? I hope your answer isn’t that you won the lottery.
By JIMMY on Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
JACQUES
re LeifRunenritzer: That’s pretty much the kind of brainwashing I’ve come to expect from some Americans. Faced with obvjective facts that are self evidently unacceptable, the true American patriots only response is to trot out dogma and ideology.
“Limited government” as you call it, is code for less social co-operation, ie’ feasting while your neighbours kids starve. Have you noticed your government is only limited when it comes time to take care of the less fortunate?
By STERLING on Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
GREGORIO
Most countries weren’t founded on principles of limited government, private property and individual rights. Government healthcare violates all of these principles that define our country because American government was never authorized to give healthcare, and through income tax and inflation, we are forced, involuntarily and against our will, to pay for it. That’s not freedom. So i’m told, whether you were rich or poor, American healthcare was great before government intervened about 50 yrs ago.
By CHARLEY on Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
JAMAL
soccom8341576:
If you can afford to save and plan. The average cost of medical expenses for a family in the U.S. is over $900 a month.
Universal health care has proven itself demonstrably better in any advanced nation that has it.
3rd and last answer to an obvious question: because health insurance companies make a brick ton of money. Also health insurance companies do not make money by paying out claims. Google a bit, for example: “health insurance claims denied”.
By KENNITH on Jul 19, 2009 | Reply
CHRISTIAN
re: 1st para: what this has to do with health insurance is beyond me.
re: 2nd para: medicare pays out 97 cents on the dollar (97%), leaving 3 cents (3%) to administrative costs. The average private insurance company only pays out 80 cents (80%) of its proceeds.
re: 3rd para: 45% of all personal bankruptcy cases in the U,S. are due to medical expenses. Outside of those who have no insurance, a bigger case can be made of millions who are under insured because they cannot afford proper coverage.