The insurance industry is ripping off each and every one of us. Everytime a politician opens his or her mouth about health care..."INSURANCE" comes out. Have you ever followed the money that the insurance industry spends paying off politicians? What other industry has been able to get laws passed to force people to buy their products? How many people spend as much on various insurance premiums than they spend on any one other single monthly purchase other than perhaps their home? Once you purchase insurance what do you really have? Scary.........isn't it!
2007-03-27 11:01:12 · 15 answers · asked by Stupid is as stupid does 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
It started when lobbyists became popular. Maybe we should start voting for the lobbyists and not the politicians. They seem to have the power now.
2007-03-27 11:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by earl justice 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very true. What about the doctors? Do you realize that some insurances pay the doctor $15 dollars out of the $80 cost for a doctors visit, and the insured doesn't pay anything. Even when the insurances that do pay full price will always look for a way not to pay. This is a growing problem that threatens medical care to day in conjunction with errant malpractice suits.. The medical profession is among the most highest paid and duly so, however in many cases their very livelihoods are threatened by this...With outrageous insurance costs today how much is actually going to the doctors and how much to the CEOs, salesmen, advertisements, and even the janitors for their buildings..another word coming out of politicians mouths these days is universal healthcare..meaning nationalizing healthcare and raising taxes outrageously...65% taxes anyone?...
instead we should look to ways to start directly paying our doctors thereby raising the quality of healthcare and cutting out the selfish middleman...This could be accomplished with monthly payments to your doctor, which has already been implemented in some practices..Admittedly I don't have the foolproof answer to the healthcare questions such as what to do when you can't afford a 10,000 dollar surgery..However this is the direction healthcare should be going and politicians should get the word 'insurance' out of their heads.
2007-03-27 12:13:39 · answer #2 · answered by dandaman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're one of the only developed countries that doesn't have universal health care, and we pay far, far more for health care than ANY country in the world. We have something in the range of 50 MILLION people who are uninsured. This is a moral issue. We need to take insurers out of the equation(cut out the middleman). Saving lives and keeping people healthy is a basic right, and shouldn't be big business. Just take a look at an online Canadian pharmacy and see how much we're being cheated!
2007-03-27 11:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Currently the state of U.S. is sad me and my wife are both hard working adults. We have a mortagage, car payments, stundents loans ,life insurance, and health an dental insurance. And we are a blue collar family just trying to make it with nothing in savings and a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle . And I have been putting off getting my wisdom teeth taken out and other dental workdone because of the cost. Mine and my wifes health insurance runs about 400 a month and we are both in are late 20's and are non smokers in good health. And with no known illnesses. Yet with my expensive dental insurance it will cost me $700 to get my wisdom teeth removed. The health system is a let down.I am a small spender with a normal not very glamorous life yet I have to put off getting medical attention due to the health care system which I can't afford with even expensive insurance.
2007-03-27 11:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by derricklbeck 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
America doesn't have a solution for healthcare yet (if ever). Medicare and Medicaid act more or less like Insurance. My insurance premium just went up, and so did all of my co-payments (odd...) so I don't expect any hope from the political machine to assist us.
Solution: Hide in a hole, bring aspirin, anitbiotics, and some multi-vitamins.
2007-03-27 11:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Universal Health Care.
It's about time we start defending peoples right to LIFE as garaunteed in the constitution.
It's the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of life.
Where is the compassion? Everyone who is anti-abortion and pro-birth- I mean, pro-LIFE, should support Universal Health Care.
Get rid of insurance. Get rid of paperwork. Get rid of the strain on businesses and corporations.
Like most other developed and civilized societies, we need to provide health care to all of our citizens, regardless of age, income, health status, lifestyle.
Life, health, should be a right in our country.
2007-03-27 17:38:54 · answer #6 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When insurance companies started buying lots of politicians.
2007-03-27 11:03:36 · answer #7 · answered by Nick I 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
class we must regretfully correct the spelling of
Insurance in our dictionaries...
an order from on high which has the full backing of our Senate, Congress and all other elected officials,
the correct spelling,
has been for the past 5 years, but is now fully realized by all
is...
MONEY MONEY MONEY
class (especially poor and middle class) DISMISSED!!!
peace ( if you can find any)
2007-03-27 12:30:06 · answer #8 · answered by Godis! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not ready to hand over such a vital system as healthcare over to the government after seeing what a bang-up job they did in New Orleans.
2007-03-27 11:06:02 · answer #9 · answered by goldspider79 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is scary and John Q. Public is going to pay for all of the bribes.
2007-03-27 11:07:50 · answer #10 · answered by grandma 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋