Does anyone truly believe that we can have healthcare reform without reigning in the insurance companies?

In Oregon, they are attempting to be the model for healthcare reform. They have now made it possible to insure 80,000 more children and 35,000 more adults.How...You ask? Taxing the insurance companies with a 1% tax.

Seems a small price for them to pay, but they did not pay it. They passed this tax on to the insured immediately. I am willing to pay 1% for helping others, but it was intended to be the insurance companies' responsibility.

I do not see insurance companies competing to provide affordable coverage unless they are forced to do so by competing against a public option. Agree? Disagree?

Asked by SWFpdx 27 months ago Similar questions: healthcare reform reigning insurance companies Business > Insurance.

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Disagree TOTALLY! The government option is not about competition. If you had followed this debate for any amount of time you would realize those who now try to promote the "government option" using the words "choice" and "competition, just a short time ago, and some still now, were talking SINGLE PAYER.

SINGLE PAYER is their goal, single payer means MONOPOLY, single payer means NO CHOICE, NO COMPETION, one option which is the GOVERNMENT! They only use the words "choice" and "competition" because they have taken polls and know these words are popular, they use these words like bait for fish (us) which they wish to FRY! No it (single payer) won’t happen immediately, it may take 5, 10 or 15 years but the government option will eventually become the ONLY option as they do not need to MAKE a profit, they can just TAKE their profit, in the form of taxes.

Also, they will make the RULES which other companies must abide by, so there will not be any real OPTION! Notice, Democrats including Obama saying just what I said, listen carefully, please - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk If Government has total control they can save money, HOW? By denying care, putting people to sleep like dogs!

Making people stand in line, not allowing even cash payments. They would have total control over our lives, that is what the government option is about - Totalitarian RULE - a nations of slaves and few elite government RULERS! The best way to encourage CHOICE and COMPETITION is to lift government regulation and let the thousands of insurance companies that exist in the United States compete across state lines.

Right now, that is not allowed and this restriction greatly hinders competition as each state allows only certain insurance companies access to the people, why, because Government wants CONTROL! .

As the Federal Government established the holiday system AND the 40 hour workweek by giving both of those to employees which policies were then implemented by almost every other business, so the Federal Government getting into health care will cause change in the private sector simply by virtue of being the biggest one doing it, creating the usual "Why can't we . .?" They don't need to force anyone to do anything. It'll happen.

1 We all know it will take some compromise. What many forget it that this is the negotiating phase. This is when we decide how much each group will pay and everyone wants the "upper hand."

So there is something to fight for and we are fighting for it. Lots of money to be made. Good old USA politics.

We all know it will take some compromise. What many forget it that this is the negotiating phase. This is when we decide how much each group will pay and everyone wants the "upper hand."

So there is something to fight for and we are fighting for it. Lots of money to be made. Good old USA politics.

2 You are right imho - affordable health care reform cannot happen without some of the profits of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies being cut. Like you, though, I believe they would pass the added fees or taxes right back to the consumers. Competition does seem like a viable way to get these companies to lower prices and profits.

You are right imho - affordable health care reform cannot happen without some of the profits of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies being cut. Like you, though, I believe they would pass the added fees or taxes right back to the consumers. Competition does seem like a viable way to get these companies to lower prices and profits.

3 That's pretty much what will happen nationally unless something is done to foster more competition. The big insurers have no incentive to hold the line on premiums otherwise, which is why they're likely to drop their objections to the reform bill if it gets out of committee without at least a trigger provision for a public option. Some Op-Ed I read this morning - and I've been reading too much of it - suggests that the concomitant increases in premiums that will be brought on by taxing insurance companies will ultimately drive down costs, because employers will be compelled to buy less coverage or raise employee contributions.

That seems nuts to me.

That's pretty much what will happen nationally unless something is done to foster more competition. The big insurers have no incentive to hold the line on premiums otherwise, which is why they're likely to drop their objections to the reform bill if it gets out of committee without at least a trigger provision for a public option. Some Op-Ed I read this morning - and I've been reading too much of it - suggests that the concomitant increases in premiums that will be brought on by taxing insurance companies will ultimately drive down costs, because employers will be compelled to buy less coverage or raise employee contributions.

That seems nuts to me.

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