'We can't cover everything for everyone.'

just a taste of what governemnt run health care will be like, people told to simply die, here we'll even help you die, we'll kill you. This is what we're all supose to be wanting and supporting, nation wide, for everyone.

 

Would private insurance cover that treatment?

 

NO!!!

Say it ain't so!!! The government actually treating a person like a statistic?

Again, I say emphatically

NO!!!
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Certainly this would have been well publicized so people would know what their reps were voting on --- wouldn't it???? Well, wouldn't it??????????

Surely everybody who supports this "health plan"(??) is aware of all these little intricate details aren't they?? WELL, aren't they???

Surely these folks aren't just taking the word of politicians, who admit never having read the "plan", and trusting them to look out for the citizen's welfare - are they???? WELL, are they???

And one (well some) wonders why the nation is going straight to perdition in that proverbial hand-basket!!

This one typical example is literally "Nuff said"!!!!
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Isn't "We can't cover everything for everyone" what we say to proponents of federalized healthcare? Either way, the statement is in and of itself true.

 

Is it the government's obligation or an insurance company's obligation or the public's obligation to keep every person alive as long as it is technically possible?

 

No to all.

 

Hmmm.. seems like Palin may be right...

Who will decide what is best for you?
YOU?
Your Dr?
Or some pimple faced government official that just graduated from college behind a desk somewhere in DC?

It's time for a revolution... vote em out in 2010... 2012... Throw the socialist bums out of congress, and take back the White house from a free loading moocher living in Public Housing!

 

The issue isn't who decides treatment, it's what treatment is covered by insurance. I categorically oppose federalized healthcare, but whether insurance is public or private, it doesn't mean that everything must be covered, or that the insurer is entitled to unlimited free health coverage.

 

In the case with private health care insurance there is a contract of some sort that defines the benefits and then the courts as a means of enforcing the contract.

With a government plan I do not believe that either of those assurances exist.

 

You make a good point. Assuming you're correct, a federalized insurance plan can then cover whatever it wants, so long as it does to across the board. If someone doesn't like it, the are welcome to get additional private insurance to cover the difference. Of course, I expect people to think they're entitled to it free, rather than having to do so.

 

I am not sure about that. The little that we know about the persons who will be creating the bureacracy to dole out healthcare under the govenrment system have indicated that they are in favor of allocating healthcare services based on some sort of system which rates the relative value to society of the person requesting the services.

The elderly, infirmed, handicapped, etc would be considered less valuable under such a system and would therefore not rate the expenditures.

The entitlement mentality is a natural product of any welfare system.

The government promotes such thinking by calling welfare payments and the like "entitlements".

 

Isn't that the "problem" socialized health care is supposed to solve? Isn't that the great ignominy of privat insurace?

Here you cite it to defend government rationing of treatment.

In this you have tipped your hand. You don't care about people, you simply desire a government program.

 

Yes, and once you imliment such a program, it's difficult to change or rescind it, since people will claim that their "benefits" are being "cut". Case in point, social security should have been phased out long ago, imo, but people now feel they are "owed" it.

And it won't. It will just have the same problems that are present in the private health system, but people will now feel like they are entitled to have whatever they want paid for.

 

Do any of you connies have a problem with Medicare? I don't hear people complaining about how Medicare is killing Grandma. All the progressives want to do is create a Medicare-like public option or let people buy in to Medicare.

 

Such naivete.......

 

Two points - we have been paying into Medicare through payroll deduction taxes all our working lives. It is healthcare that we have already paid for.

And it's going broke. Adding more beneficiaries to the system while cutting funding for it will simply drive it broke sooner.