What kind of stupid comment is this?

Question

He compared private health plans to plasma TVs, saying the plans would come down in cost as demand grows.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_democrats

does Giuliani, have any idea between a product, and a service?
does he have any idea of what actually makes health insurance go up?
is he really as competent as his supporters think he is?

John K maybeyou would like to explain?

captainobvious_lj, maybe you would like to read this and tell me how it compares?
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/HealthPlanFull.pdf

Answer 1

Well, the man has survived prostate cancer, so I'm presuming he knows a thing or two about health insurance.

On the other hand, his whole adult life, he's worked for some form of government or has been wealthy enough to afford any insurance on the market, so what does he know about what the middle class can afford?

Republicans are not interested in reforming the health-care payment system. Doing so would decrease the contributions they get from the insurance industry. In this regard, Saint Rudy of Nine Eleven is a typical Republican.

And if he cons the people into voting for him, all of us -- including those of us who don't vote for him -- will feel like we're getting a prostate exam.

Answer 2

that article misses the entire point of what Giuliani is proposing. If you would take the time to either go to his site or listen to him speak about it you would get the point, agree with him or not. the 15000 tax break would allow you to spend your money on the insurance you choose. this brings the market in; in that it would create competition that is currently not available with job payed health insurance. Then as your price drops the left over of the tax break would be put into a health savings plan and as that gets bigger you can raise the limits of your insurance since you have more savings to pay the higher deductible. So yes there is a difference in product and service but markets work in both areas.

Answer 3

Health care is a loser unless you can get federal dollars from it . What would people do if a surgeon picked his patients the same way a Mercedes dealer selects his buyers .
Years ago bad doctors would be run out of town .
Now we just let them charge us the cost of malpractice insurance and are done with it . They have medical boards that are much more lenient the you could ever imagine .

Answer 4

Giuliani's a fraud. Just ask anybody who lived in New York City was he was mayor. I don't know who supports him. Republicans who are pro-choice? How many of them are there? He'll be exposed as the fraud he is as time goes on. He's still riding the 9-11 leadership "America's Mayor" thing. Not eneough to be Pres Rudy.

Answer 5

Rudy really sounds like he is making stuff up as he goes along and beating old cliches about democrats to death . I really think most americans are smarter than the level that he is directing his campaign at. Of course he is vying for the Republican nomination, which may require him to do so to get it. This stuff won't play in the general election.

Answer 6

why of course Guiliani is right. You can buy plasma from one of those places that buy plasma, pour it into an old Television, then you have a really inexpensive plasma TV! Healthcare would be the same thing!

Answer 7

Sounds like somone is getting campaign money from the health insurance companies.

Answer 8

Giuliani, is a corrupt Washington Politician, and he really has a brain about the size of a pea!!!!

Answer 9

The Republicans have their own little religion, and one of its articles of faith is "the free market will solve all problems." Like any other article of religious faith, it's not testable in the real world.

Answer 10

That article looks like a slew of cherry picked statements taken out of context.