Comments for Welcome to Universal Health Slavery at http://www.rcreader.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.rcreader.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:00:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-376 By the way, I think the proper terminology should be FEMAcans in order to not misrepresent the president who is solely responsible for putting complete morons in charge of important offices. That being said, I don't want to add CAN to the word since it is obvious that they CAN'T. Maybe FEMAcraticans might be the most appropriate. - Michael-DAV Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:42:27 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-375 Very good points all around. I think that Robert Alexander probably touched on the main problem facing health care in this country:Insurance Companies. I know that Insurance is often times connected to health care, but they are actually competing institutions. Insurance companies do not want to help. Health care professionals do want to help. This is the obvious problem. Health costs are skyrocketing not because the doctors want more money, but because the insurance companies keep low balling them on payments. If a health care professional bills the correct amount for the care, they get half. The way to combat this is to charge double so that they get what they should have received in the first place. Law states that everyone must be charged the same amounts so the non-insured end up paying the inflated costs caused by the insurance companies unwillingness to pay the correct amounts. It seems to me we should be reforming the insurance companies rather than the health care institutions. That will never happen because the insurance companies have got more money than God or Country and therefore are beholden to neither allowing them to be unrestricted by morals or laws. They pay for legislative action because it is cheaper than paying for their customers to get the proper care. - Michael-DAV Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:36:02 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-374 Advocates of different forms of government run healthcare always imagine a best-case scenario. When they compare that to the status quo, obviously their imagination wins. But many of the problems will remain. For example, I've been fighting with my insurance company because they received two bills from my doctor for services on the same day: an examination, and lab tests. The insurance company thinks they're duplicate bills (even though they're different amounts). Government funded care would still run into confusions like this. They can't just pay every bill blindly, or they'd be wide open to fraud. Granted, my problem is relatively small. But before jumping on the government bandwagon, think hard about what limitations the government would have to impose in real-world scenarios. It's not going to be a perfect system, and as Garry points out, it could be severely flawed. - Robert Alexander Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:06:10 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-373 If you want to see how government health care will work, look no further than the V.A. hospitals. Even the mainstream media has reported on the lousy conditions found there. - Nedda Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:33:32 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-371 Excellent observations, Mr. Reed. I really like how you've used a current gov-bungle that everyone can relate to, to explain how universal health care will follow in kind. There's a reason why moneyed Canadian patients come to the states for medical care, and their M.D.s come here to practice after their state-paid schooling. You are spot on, in the same thing will happen here if the gov't meddles in health care any more than it does now. - lewlew Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:44:22 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-370 Great article. Keep 'em coming! - Bob Thompson Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:31:34 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-369 Great article and great point. - Jack Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:21:13 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-368 You are, sadly, quite right about how universal health care will end up. And how the powercrats will evade the mess they make. It's the way of socialism. - Sunni Maravillosa Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:41:03 +0100 http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/welcome-to-universal-health-slavery/#comment-367 This Garry Reed guy rocks. - Bob Alexander Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:32:51 +0100