Does anyone else agree with what I've heard?

Question

The next revolution in America will be against the insurance industry. The people will demand quality care, but stop paying outregous prices for it.

Answer 1

When we stop allowing big Companies to lobby our congress with millions of dollars in shady contributions for favorable votes on upcoming bills and elect people who will actually vote on behalf of and in the best interest or their constituents. Then and only then will you see a reversal of the gouging by the Insurance industry.

Answer 2

Sorry, but this way off base.

The cost of health care isn't insurance companies fault. They package it and mark it up and make an adequate return on their capital, nothing more. If they charged so much that someone else could come in and make a good return on their money... they would.

Some of the costs of health care are because we use more complex treatments to help people live longer. Some of the cost is that we hear advertised and insist on big pharma drugs, where a cheaper drug may be just as effective. Some is in outrageous malpractice insurance (where much of the proceeds go to the lawyers and not the victims).

I have no doubt there's a better way to do health care. I also have no doubt that it won't be by "paying less for insurnace".

Answer 3

Revolution? Or social movement? It will take multilateral pressure from all over the country to make it happen. What if we had 10-100 million people converge on DC for a protest of lack of adequate medical care? Think they would hear us then?

The idea that the costs are inevitable is bullshit. I've seen in the news and real life how insurance costs can be negotiated down and down. It's a cooperative shafting of the public by the medical community and insurance. Sure, there are some ethical people out there, but they are few and far between and there are far too many people that have no medical coverage at all and those that only are covered under stupid circumstances (like my students that are labelled by the government as depenedents under ridiculous circumstances AND/or can only have their parents' insurance if they are full-time students - even when that's a disasterously BAD idea for the student and their current situation. No, our current insurance policy is very screwed up. Just because it works for you and you are too uninformed to notice the problems of others doesn't mean it works for everyone else. The people complaining aren't just whining. They are getting SCREWED and they pissed off from righteous indignation!

I make my argument for a social movement because I fear that at some point we will hit a self-destructive boiling point... That a real revolution is possible, but that it will bring hell on Earth to roost in our own country. For those of you enraged, PLEASE sort this out peacefully!! For those of you in denial: get a f---ing clue!!! It's your head they will want, o Marie Antoinettes of the world!

Answer 4

It isn't only the people providing care, it's the in between private companies that are soaking you. The pres of Anthem gets 2 Million in Salary and a 12 Million dollar bonus a year. There are another 4 from that HMO that make well over a million a year!

That's hoe the rich get richer, by paying obscene salaries, give stockholders, who do squat, obscene returns and they do it by screwing the people they are suppose to insure. How? By denying benefits and hiking the cost to employers, like states, who pass it off to workers.

Know how many HMO's there are? In 1997 in 1 state, New Jersey!!

As of July 1, 1997, 649 HMOs

Free enterprise at it's finest!

Answer 5

I would rather stop the outlandish lawsuits happening all over the country. When someone wins a $50 million lawsuit and the insurance companies have to pay up - it ultimately leads to higher premium costs by everyone else. I am not against someone getting what they deserve, but I think Tort reform is a major step in reducing the cost of health insurance. Most trial lawyers who make their living off these lawsuits will no doubt disagree with me.

Answer 6

I don't think that the insurance companies are the whole problem (especially if you are referring to the health care industry). We need a better way to ration health care. Right now consumers want unlimited healthcare at a low price. That means some people (the insured) get health care, while others don't. That need for unlimited health care and the fear of lawsuits (leading to defensive medicine) drives up costs.

Answer 7

Wouldn't that be nice.I am not complaining to much at the moment since my husband now has a great job with low cost great insurance coverage.Granted a prescription that doesn't have a generic will cost me $50 but that's better than $120+ it would have cost me with out.I also now only pay $25 to see my doctor but when I didn't have coverage we paid up to $200.
I think there should be more affordable insurance provided to everyone and also medicaid so be provided to everyone with low income.

Answer 8

Y'know there's only two industrial countries in the world that don't have national health-care. South Africa and the US of A.

Is it suprising to you that 4 of the top 10 campaign contributors to the Republican party are medical providers or insurers?

Americans need to take a keener interest in politics. These companies wouldn't be allowed to get away with this sh*t if they did...


http://www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/profile.aspx?act=industries&in=45

Answer 9

Oh go demand yourself. Stop that nude scuba-diving in the shark tank after cutting yourself with razor blades and then expecting others to pay for your amputations/rehab. I think the whole idea of insurance, where you incur a loss, and someone else has to pay for it through higher rates, invites abuse. It needs to be regulated, and regulated DOWN. People should have to pay the hospital for services rendered, and the rest of the time do their level best to stay OUT of the hospital. Darwin's a real bastard, on that one...

Answer 10

No, I think the next revolution in this country will be against the government and their excessive waste. When the tax rate reaches 100% we will be in trouble.

We need to trim government by 50 to 75 percent.

Answer 11

Whether this is an actuality or not, it perhaps should be true. I worked for an insurance company for a number of years. My job was to deny claims [death benefits] at any cost, or to delay them as long as possible. I could not look myself in the eye and was sickened by the methods used to abuse hapless individuals going through a horrific moment in their lives. Insurance is unregulated and perhaps that is where the problems lie.