How about writing a story about being responsible and not making excuses for everything that happened to him? S--- happens to everyone...heh, but everyone else deals with it.
"I hope more people become aware of what happens to so many young people today." -posted by SavartiTN. What happens? He did this to himself! When did it say he was booted out of his home, and being a homeless, drug addicted thief was the only way he could survive? Heck...his parents still try to get him to come home.
Wow! Who knew that newspaper editors and reporters could solve all of our problems? We should take this mandate idea to the max...let's mandate that people who don't even HAVE cars buy car insurance! That'll obviously drive car insurance costs down, but is it right? Why do you idiots think health insurance is any different?
You also acknowledge adverse selection toward the end, but ignore it with your dumb "community rates" comment. It compounds the issue when all pay the same. Yes you could solve it with another dumb purchase mandate, but then healthier groups will just start to run their own health insurance. You then cause adverse selection on the group level and still have the same problem. Again you could mandate, but where does the mandate spiral end?
Why do you ignore the people controlling the cost (Pharma and providers), but feel perfectly fine with attacking the people subsidizing that cost?
I have only seen statistics pointing to the opposite. Most stats are summarized by a very biased third party, though. Where did you find that other countries produce better healthcare? What are the measures?
The best way to keep citizens in control is to do everything possible to keep them as close to the people responsible as is practical. That's why "mom and pop" places are so successful; they make changes to keep customers happy because they are in direct contact with them daily. If the government takes control, the decision-makers will never have to face the customers. Also, the government doesn't care about a bottom-line, so they have no incentive to keep people happy. The same thing happens when companies get extremely large; they begin ignoring what people want. This same argument makes sense out of why private schools do better than public schools. That's a major part of the free market.
If for some reason someone could convince me that socialized medicine (name-calling or not) is the answer, it should still be left up to each individual state. On a national scale, it would be spreading wealth on an unbelievable/unnecessary level.
Why is everything a crisis? Healthcare has been a "crisis" for decades, but nothing has exploded/imploded. If it's important it shouldn't be rushed and if it's rushed it's obviously not important (or being lied about in the government's case).
Hard like Nails?
How about writing a story about being responsible and not making excuses for everything that happened to him? S--- happens to everyone...heh, but everyone else deals with it.
"I hope more people become aware of what happens to so many young people today." -posted by SavartiTN. What happens? He did this to himself! When did it say he was booted out of his home, and being a homeless, drug addicted thief was the only way he could survive? Heck...his parents still try to get him to come home.
'Average' rates miss point
Wow! Who knew that newspaper editors and reporters could solve all of our problems? We should take this mandate idea to the max...let's mandate that people who don't even HAVE cars buy car insurance! That'll obviously drive car insurance costs down, but is it right? Why do you idiots think health insurance is any different?
You also acknowledge adverse selection toward the end, but ignore it with your dumb "community rates" comment. It compounds the issue when all pay the same. Yes you could solve it with another dumb purchase mandate, but then healthier groups will just start to run their own health insurance. You then cause adverse selection on the group level and still have the same problem. Again you could mandate, but where does the mandate spiral end?
Why do you ignore the people controlling the cost (Pharma and providers), but feel perfectly fine with attacking the people subsidizing that cost?
Socialized medicine’s waiting game
nucanuck...
I have only seen statistics pointing to the opposite. Most stats are summarized by a very biased third party, though. Where did you find that other countries produce better healthcare? What are the measures?
The best way to keep citizens in control is to do everything possible to keep them as close to the people responsible as is practical. That's why "mom and pop" places are so successful; they make changes to keep customers happy because they are in direct contact with them daily. If the government takes control, the decision-makers will never have to face the customers. Also, the government doesn't care about a bottom-line, so they have no incentive to keep people happy. The same thing happens when companies get extremely large; they begin ignoring what people want. This same argument makes sense out of why private schools do better than public schools. That's a major part of the free market.
If for some reason someone could convince me that socialized medicine (name-calling or not) is the answer, it should still be left up to each individual state. On a national scale, it would be spreading wealth on an unbelievable/unnecessary level.
Why is everything a crisis? Healthcare has been a "crisis" for decades, but nothing has exploded/imploded. If it's important it shouldn't be rushed and if it's rushed it's obviously not important (or being lied about in the government's case).