If Congressmen,Governors,lo cal politicians have a good health care coverage,why is not there one good4all citizens?

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The myth about the private sector OK, here's the complex chain of reasoning: We all know that this country values the private sector. People say it so often, that most people believe without question: "You can't trust government to do anything efficiently. The private sector always does a better job."

Because enough people believe that, the politicians go along. They wouldn't get elected otherwise. And when this belief is at all threatened, the health insurance industry pays enormous sums to make fear ads, asking folks if they trust the government with their health?

So what's wrong with the notion of competition in the health care financing sector? One thing. By law, health care providers can not turn anyone away from service.

What does this mean? To understand this, you need to understand what insurance is. With respect to our health, no one knows who is going to get sick, or when.So to help each other out, we pool our funds together, and agree that the pool will pay for the health care if any one of us gets sick, or hurt, or needs medical care in any way.

All well and good, except our hospitals can't turn anyone away, not even those who don't have insurance. So what do they do? They treat everyone, and charge the insurance companies more.

But they can't charge the insurance companies enough more to make up the difference. This is because health and sickness are not equally distributed among the clients of all hospitals.So, we, the taxpayers, step in, and through our government, try to make up some of the difference. What does this mean for insurance companies?

If you are smart, you can figure out how to insure the healthiest people, and not the unhealthy, thus leaving the unhealthy to be insured by taxpayers. This means that we, the people of the United States, are subsidizing the profits of the health insurance industry. In other words, we have legalized theft.

Taxpayers pay more for the health care of the sickest (the poor and the elderly) only we don't notice it, because it is hidden in other taxes, as well as in the Medicare tax. Since the other taxes aren't directed directly to health care, we don't actually know how much we are spending for the health care of others. It's a hidden cost.

Thus, when people propose that we all share risk together, in one risk pool, which is the cheapest way to share risk (instead of allowing a few people to insure the healthiest, and the rest of us to have to pay for the sickest), everyone looks at the tax burden this would cause, and shudders, and says, "no thanks." Never realizing that they would save money by financing health care this way. Instead, we stick with employer-provided health insurance, and a strange, hodge-podge financing system for those who don't have insurance through an employer.

There are other benefits to financing health care through one insurer and forcing everyone to be in the same risk pool. For one thing, when people are insured, they get care sooner, when it is cheaper, and can make more of a difference. So, does any of this make a difference?

Nope. The only thing that will make a difference in health care financing is if it were to become an overwhelming crisis. If we were to have a recession, and 60 or 70 million people would find themselves without insurance, and hospitals and other providers would be running deep into the red, and private insurance rates would be rising at 20% per year.

Then, and only then, would we be able to fight the rhetoric and deep pockets of the insurance industry, and persuade our politicians that they have to install a single health insurance program for all people living in this country (whether citizens or not). Until this crisis happens, politicians will jigger with the system, hiding the flow of profits to the health insurance industry at the expense of taxpayers, and while small improvements may be made, there will, at the same time, always be a new angle the insurance industry finds (legally, of course), that allows them to keep on making more money at everyone else's expense, without adding any value to our lives. Sources: 12 years as a health policy analyst, studying the impact of universal health insurance financing proposals .

They go theirs, who cares about the rest of us. Big Pharma will happily pay them money to keep things slanted in their best interest, and an affordable system is not in their best interests. So, they feel no pain, they get money, they are happy to keep things as they are, in committee.

Because we're not willing to pay for it. Ironic, isn't it? We allow our politicians better than we insist for us.

Politicians tend to get the health care provided by their employer, normally the city or state (but in the case of Congress there is a nice gold-plated system they have created for themselves). It tends to be nice healthcare (at least, the Congressional version is awesome). But, when government employees get health care coverage, it is top quality and VERY EXPENSIVE.It tends to have top coverage, and little in the way of co-pays or aspects that encourage restraint in health care system usage.

They won’t justify spending the same amount on the rest of us that they justify spending on themselves. They justify that position by saying that each person's employer should provide the coverage, not the government. But really, the "they" is "us".

If we wanted everyone to have that great coverage (and were willing to pay for it), we would demand it of our politicians, and they would comply. We just have to decide we're willing to have our taxes pay for it. I do, however, have a modest proposal - a middle road while we're continuing to consider univeral care.

Allow anyone to buy into the Congressional government plan, at whatever the government cost is, and don't allow anyone to get excluded or higher premium-rated based on prior conditions or whatever. This would quickly highlight the cost of the government plan, would solve the problem of prior conditions at least among those able to pay a normal high rate for coverage, and I think would help move us more quickly towards universal care, where we morally should go..

Money Grab! Like the says goes " SHOW ME THE MONEY "! Lets face it every american should be covered and can be just need to restructure the tax system some so all can get "FREE HEALTH CARE" .

If you take away that money you pay for health care insurance im sure in taxed base system it be cheaper. Just look at us canadians up north of you, but there are flaws no less in our system too like: waiting times ,some hospitals running sub-par services, im sure theres more im just fried from waiting 6 hours in ER with my dad so that some doctor can say to me that he should just take cough drops. But on a more serious note there no excuse why all americans don't have free health care being such a rich diverse country!.

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