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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 763 Views
I just hope this doesn't squash all health-care reform attempts - 29/09/2009 09:12:15 PM 486 Views
It definitely needs work, but not scrapped..... - 29/09/2009 09:16:32 PM 491 Views
Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 09:32:58 PM 489 Views
Re: Polls are horrid evidence in my mind - 29/09/2009 10:12:26 PM 656 Views
From a government employee: Nice post *NM* - 29/09/2009 10:17:48 PM 204 Views
Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 10:29:13 PM 443 Views
Re: Not that I totally disagree with you, but that being said - 29/09/2009 11:21:21 PM 542 Views
the difference is the focus of the organizations - 29/09/2009 11:44:56 PM 520 Views
Re: the difference is the focus of the organizations - 30/09/2009 12:40:38 AM 550 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 540 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 522 Views
that the private sector has a long history of abusing both customer and employee *NM* - 30/09/2009 03:46:03 AM 199 Views
That's indisbutable - 30/09/2009 05:55:45 PM 511 Views
And that's all I'm saying - 30/09/2009 07:08:04 PM 468 Views
Re: And that's all I'm saying - 01/10/2009 03:10:02 AM 503 Views
It doesn't work at all - 30/09/2009 04:27:44 AM 548 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 558 Views
it's not THAT they pay malpractice - 30/09/2009 02:00:04 PM 420 Views
but doctors are *required* to buy malpractice insurance - 30/09/2009 04:13:08 PM 469 Views
that's completely moot to the situation malpractice insurance causes. - 30/09/2009 04:21:42 PM 437 Views
hooray, we're going to continue in mediocrity when it comes to our health - 29/09/2009 10:15:00 PM 549 Views
Yes, it's comforting to see that we are only rated 37th... - 29/09/2009 11:14:33 PM 460 Views
That is a decade old and horribly discredited citation - 29/09/2009 11:46:51 PM 629 Views
regardless, we still spend a lot more on health care while having too many uncovered people - 29/09/2009 11:56:24 PM 460 Views
My objection, in this context, is strictly about references - 30/09/2009 12:13:40 AM 467 Views
i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 12:54:25 AM 510 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 01:15:30 AM 568 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 12:24:45 PM 555 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 06:29:09 PM 544 Views
Re: i understand your point about the reference - 30/09/2009 10:57:36 PM 525 Views
Interesting... - 01/10/2009 12:09:35 AM 459 Views
So basically you are saying? - 01/10/2009 01:10:22 AM 425 Views
Basically... - 01/10/2009 02:52:51 AM 468 Views
Hooray! The government isn't going to get directly involved and make HC even worse! *NM* - 30/09/2009 01:03:50 AM 200 Views
yes, heaven forbid we take care of our own *NM* - 30/09/2009 04:13:50 PM 203 Views
looks l;ike they found some bipartisan spirit after all - 29/09/2009 10:35:55 PM 471 Views
Definitely wouldn't want to "denigrate" Health Care... - 30/09/2009 02:46:19 PM 430 Views

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