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deimos47 (434)    Sep 26, 2009 - 02:37 am

owh, how young and naive. In Canada, they need to keep the workforce complacent and healthy to prevent escape to US for higher wages. In USA, if you're sick or dying, they'll just replace you with another number - er, 'person'. Millions of deperate souls to choose from. And if they give you any lip, outsource to China or India. And all this started cause some white dudes brought in natives from Golden Colonies to pick cotton rather than do it themselves. » Login to reply to this

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Trevor311 (169)    Sep 03, 2009 - 12:57 pm

The thing is competition, GatoRat. What you have to consider is that your options for health insurance are fairly limited, and the best rates typically come when you work for an organization large enough to ensure that it gets cheaper rates for it's employees. If you work for a small company, you typically get more expensive choices for health insurance plans. If you work for a company that simply does not provide health insurance options, then you are stuck finding health insurance on your own, and in this situation it gets pretty expensive. To keep it on the more affordable end, you end up getting less coverage for your buck. What the government seems to want to do, is introduce a government health insurance plan that pools everyone out there together in such a way as to allow government to constructive an affordable insurance plan. Let's face it, insurance is a way for a group of individuals to pool their resources together to protect the group as a whole. Alone, almost none of us can actually afford the cost of healthcare under the extreme circumstances. Together, we can all contribute enough to cover the costs of those that fall under the extreme case, and we all accept the fact that there's a chance that it could happen to ourselves of a member of our family. It doesn't necessarily have to have better coverage than other providers to be successful. If they do it right, there will be spillover from private insurance provider customers, and this will encourage private insurance providers to be more competitive. The truth of the matter is, there is VERY little competition within the insurance industry right now. Part of the problem is restriction of state boundaries. There's other issues at hand too. I'm not saying what's on slate right now is necessarily the plan we want or need, but the aim, the goal, is a commendable goal, and a smart goal. And all those people complaining about packed emergency rooms? You need to remember that part of the problem is that people avoid health care because they lack health insurance, until they can't delay any longer - at which point they often end up in an emergency room. Health care works best when it's preventative, rather than reactive. » Login to reply to this

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