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Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said Isaac Send a noteboard - 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM
The Private Sector has proven time and time again to be money driven and uninclined to care about the statuses of their workers, their customers and even their products (all this where it does not affect their profits). I'm totally not saying government programs are immune to this, I'm just saying the private sector is hardly that wonderful either.

In regards to the health insurance industry, it's a service that is just as important to people's health as doctors, EMTs, firemen and policemen. Am I comfortable letting the private sector just have at and remove regulating hands?

HELL. NO.



The privatre sector has been proven time and again to be money driven.

Thery're supposed to be money driven, what else should motivate them. Don't tell me you think the CEO of a fastfood chain wakes up everyday and says "I do good things for people". Heck they probably do, "I mka esure people can get a quick tasty meal for a good price and not have to throw together some crappy sandwich while getting their kids out the door in the morning that's soggy when they eat it, I provide thousands of young people jobs to get through college."

Most people think lawyers, politicians, and CEOs are a pack of unhanged scoundrels. Very few of them are, most CEOS for instance, really are worried about their workers. You just hear about the occassional crooks. Go look up forbes list of america's wealthiest people, it a virtual smorgasborg of humanitarians. They have to worry about the bottom line, because without the bottom line they go out of business, without a healthy profit they can't invest to expand or do R&D.

But you don't trust businessmen, fine, you trust politicians? Let's hand over power from one notoriously corrupt group to another. That's a good idea?

But it's all BS, there are very few villanous tyrants in gov't or private industry, and the ones who are tend to have learned how to fake being a nice guy so well that you couldn't tell the difference anyway. Heck, some of them do such a good job faking being decent people that they do more good than the decent people do.

So if politicians and evil businessmen are equally corrupt and evil, what advantage is there to handing it over to a group also known for doing a somewhat dull job?
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Government-Run Health Insurance Plan - 29/09/2009 09:08:40 PM 806 Views
I just hope this doesn't squash all health-care reform attempts - 29/09/2009 09:12:15 PM 521 Views
It definitely needs work, but not scrapped..... - 29/09/2009 09:16:32 PM 527 Views
Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 09:32:58 PM 526 Views
Re: Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 10:12:26 PM 695 Views
From a government employee: Nice post *NM* - 29/09/2009 10:17:48 PM 226 Views
Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 10:29:13 PM 472 Views
Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM 575 Views
the difference is the focus of the organizations - 29/09/2009 11:44:56 PM 561 Views
Re: the difference is the focus of the organizations - 30/09/2009 12:40:38 AM 586 Views
Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO - 29/09/2009 11:44:58 PM 575 Views
Re: Difference is that the law is subject to more checks and balances than the whims of a CEO - 30/09/2009 12:28:36 AM 558 Views
that the private sector has a long history of abusing both customer and employee *NM* - 30/09/2009 03:46:03 AM 216 Views
That's indisbutable - 30/09/2009 05:55:45 PM 548 Views
And that's all I'm saying - 30/09/2009 07:08:04 PM 501 Views
Re: And that's all I'm saying - 01/10/2009 03:10:02 AM 537 Views
It doesn't work at all - 30/09/2009 04:27:44 AM 582 Views
i have yet to see any evidence of malpractice insurance being a driving cost of health care - 30/09/2009 05:27:34 AM 591 Views
it's not THAT they pay malpractice - 30/09/2009 02:00:04 PM 451 Views
but doctors are *required* to buy malpractice insurance - 30/09/2009 04:13:08 PM 514 Views
that's completely moot to the situation malpractice insurance causes. - 30/09/2009 04:21:42 PM 472 Views
hooray, we're going to continue in mediocrity when it comes to our health - 29/09/2009 10:15:00 PM 580 Views
Yes, it's comforting to see that we are only rated 37th... - 29/09/2009 11:14:33 PM 492 Views
That is a decade old and horribly discredited citation - 29/09/2009 11:46:51 PM 664 Views
regardless, we still spend a lot more on health care while having too many uncovered people - 29/09/2009 11:56:24 PM 493 Views
My objection, in this context, is strictly about references - 30/09/2009 12:13:40 AM 495 Views
i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 12:54:25 AM 546 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 01:15:30 AM 605 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 12:24:45 PM 584 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 06:29:09 PM 582 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM 560 Views
Interesting... - 01/10/2009 12:09:35 AM 487 Views
So basically you are saying? - 01/10/2009 01:10:22 AM 454 Views
Basically... - 01/10/2009 02:52:51 AM 485 Views
Hooray! The government isn't going to get directly involved and make HC even worse! *NM* - 30/09/2009 01:03:50 AM 215 Views
yes, heaven forbid we take care of our own *NM* - 30/09/2009 04:13:50 PM 216 Views
looks l;ike they found some bipartisan spirit after all - 29/09/2009 10:35:55 PM 503 Views
Definitely wouldn't want to "denigrate" Health Care... - 30/09/2009 02:46:19 PM 466 Views

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