quote:Originally posted by Fighting Illini:quote:Originally posted by excelman:
My understanding of Hillary's plan, I read it but that was long ago in a galaxy far away, was as I remember it, for the government to provide a pool of private insurance companies that would offer plans at reasonable rates.
You could still keep whatever insurance you have now, but for those without company sponsored insurance, the rates you could get health insurance would be comparable to what most people pay for company sponsored ins. Don't know why that would require doctors to oversee. I don't remember anything about the government seizing private property.
I have good insurance. My interest in this is mainly because I am tired of my insurance paying for all the people who don't pay anything for their medical care, and it gets rolled to those of us who do. This raises my rates, and I don't like it!
I see your concerns. My concern is that in the end we are going to pay more for health insurance than we are now. Maybe not directly, but in the form of additional taxes to supplement those who can't afford to pay for their coverage government offers them. I guess I am just skeptical that government can do a better job making decisions for me than I can.
I share your concerns about taxes, but I still believe you and I are paying now, except that thru the emergency rooms at hospitals, there is not a more expensive way to get health care.
If my memory is correct, I don't see whats wrong with the pool for private insurance companies that people could choose from.
Maybe PBA will read this and provide a link as he seems to have a link to virtually everything, and prove me right or wrong about Hillary's plan but it sounded good to me.
BTW, I have never found a Canadian who would trade his health care plan for anything we have here, and I have asked quite a few .