Incidentally, it's not ALL about profit for the prices charged for non-insurance people. As I stated, a portion of that "cost" also pays for the billions of dollars each year of services that are given away for free (either by choice or law). Already in this country, if you go to ANY Emergency Room, they MUST treat you without regard to your ability to pay. What ends up happening (and has to a LARGE extent) is that many people who are here illegally (and hence, don't have insurance) go to the Emergency Room knowing they can't be turned away for regular check ups, for sneezes and coughs, etc... not true "emergencies". That, in part, raises the "cost" paid by everyone else most notably those people without insurance that ARE willing to pay for it.
Well said Brian. This is what our higher premiums are all about! To solve this problem is not to 'throw the baby out with the bath water' as we've done here. Rather, we need to 'cut the cancer out entirely' by opening the borders for insurance companies to compete and next, eliminating the illegals--kudos to Arizona Gov she rocks! She's got a spine. She's got my vote. Hope this spreads to my state--but alas our Gov is switching parties. Those that are FOR amnesty is a slap in the face to friends I know spending oodles of $$ and time to become a citizen LEGALLY! That's a slap in the face of my relatives too! By the way, I don't like slapping of any sort, I'm not one for the whipping post either, I'm a ***** cat when it comes to pain, so Phyl, keep that whip away from me--I'm not hijaker here.
We've been a 'door mat' for too long. For too long in my state I've heard legal and illegal's tell me where they are from and say to me "I love my country." So, you love your country but not enough to live there and make a living? In essence they are saying they don't love MY country, and yet MY country has open arms whereas, their countries do not. I do not visit their country in hopes of changing their national language or laws. Why do they want to do this here? Go home to your beloved country please. Come on back when you've done this LEGALLY! We are a forgiving people, we are a loving nation, we are THE most generous people--don't let them tell you differently.
My grandparents came here to get away from the oppressive governments of Germany and Italy legally, learned the language, and loved their new country! Why?, because it offered them HOPE! They thrived, had children, didn't live in fear. My father fought and came home a wounded warrior so WE didn't have to live under Japanese or German rule. America and her Constitution was worth fighting for and I hope more people still believe this. We are losing much and as I stated earlier government run anything never thrives--our government now OWNS 51% of private enterprise! This means 51% of our economy is going the tubes! Will we survive this?
Personally, I think you can have your cake and eat it too. Meaning, I think you can reduce the costs AND have a "for profit" system. It's because of that profit motive that most of the new innovations in techniques, new drugs and a host of other things are created in the USA. If there's no profit in it, then where's the motivation for anyone to spend the millions/billions of dollars necessary to bring a new procedure, a new drug, a new device, a new ANYthing if there aren't any hopes of recovering that cost? My answer is there is none. Innovation and R&D will suffer across the world if you take out the profit motivation.
Again Brian, well said. Our president already thinks those that are making an honest living, and employing people to do the same, should now consider making less? WHAT? Motivation creates ideas which create new possibilities that open doors. Suppression of motivation creates the opposite, apathy. No motivation equals no creation and no wealth to spread around. Our wealth is moving out, I don't blame them. Why should they stay to carry the weight of those that would rather lay around, complain about our language, laws, and their lack of 'stuff'? When they are done wiping their feet on us, realizing how much filth is left behind, seeing the empty 'bread basket', they too will move on as they won't have it in them to 'clean up' after themselves.
My mission now is to educate and motivate people to the polls this November and 2012 where there will be much house cleaning we will have to do to right the wrong. This brain tumor doesn't compare to the problem that lay ahead for me and anyone else that wants to join me to get back to a government OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE! And speaking of brain tumor, isn't that great that our motivated surgeons came up with better techniques in surgery and another way to treat OUR type of brain tumor! AMAZING! Probably why more people come here than go there for treatment or rather used to.
.....now where's my marker and poster I'm off to the Tea Party before I put a 'for sale' sign in my front yard. Thinking about straddling state lines of Arizona and Texas. States with a spine and no fear to do the right thing. Real leaders!
