Re: it seems unlikely we will get any real health care reform
- From: Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:04:05 -0700
On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:17:10 -0500, Jean Smith <gotermite@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <l8la55he6kqrnd8ffuuu7n4u31o4a24vbh@xxxxxxx>,
Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08 Jul 2009 18:14:27 GMT, awouk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arthur wouk)
wrote:
>our system rewards activity, not cure, and does not distinguish well among
>alternative ways of treating illness, and wellness.
If the insurance companies have any role at all in shaping
health care reform, which I suppose they will, it will just be a
sham, like Clinton's "don't ask don't tell", which was just an
added annoyance and no reform at all.
<snip>
Since Blue Cross owns seventy percent of the market, won't they be happy not to
pay for half of the rest?
I'm surprised to hear Blue Cross has that much, since I never
hear anything about them, but if they're a business and even
to some extent if they're not, they'll be in the last analysis *only*
concerned with their own self-preservation. It's the nature of
capitalism, and it's why businesses shouldn't have anything
but an informational role in shaping law. Capitalism is all well
and good as long as public policy is formed in full awareness,
and wariness, of capitalism's nature.
If you don't want your goat to get eaten, don't put it in the
wolf pen.
.
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