@45. Mr. Independant: – …your entire response to my last post was nu huh.
It only seems that way to you. Quite the contrary. Your entire ‘performance’ here has been one of spewing nonsensical B.S. and telling other people to prove you wrong. My response was crystal clear: your idiotic idea – that rising costs are caused by the so-called “uninsured” – has no basis in fact.
- …health care industry is not a multi-billion dollar industry; it comprises over 2 trillion dollars annually.
That would be multi-billions, wouldn’t it, d!psh!t.
- … hospitals are required by law to provide care in their emergency rooms.
GO LOOK UP THE STATUTES, MORON. Per EMTALA, which is the controlling law, the only requirements in an ER are that ER personnel provide an examination and – if and ONLY if an emergency condition exists – stabilizing, critical care or transfer to another facility. You can NOT go to an ER and just claim you have an emergency so you can get ‘free’ surgery just because you don’t want to pay for insurance and don’t want to pay for care elsewhere. You haven’t the slightest clue what you’re talking about.
- If someone with diabetes has to have a 50K amputation surgery, they get it.
Wrong. Surgery would only be required if there was no other way to stabilize the patient. The ER is not obligated to perform surgery, per se. And if you think the few operations that ARE performed under these circumstances are the bulk of what’s causing THIS SKYROCKETING INCREASE in medical costs, again, you’re absolutely delusional – aside from having, again, produced not the slightest bit of evidence to support this baseless contention.
- … you completely dodged my question about Japan’s health care system.
I didn’t dodge your question. I demonstrated that your question was asinine. WE DO NOT LIVE IN JAPAN. WE DO NOT LIVE UNDER JAPAN’S FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Therefore, your simpleton comparison is invalid. Same goes for Europe or any other country where the State can dictate health care prices as a function of socialized medicine.
- … Medicare actually proves that it can work.
Okay, you just proved you’re certifiably insane. Or totally ignorant. You pick.
Medicare does NOT work. Not by a long shot. Their reimbursement rate is so low and their claim rejection rate so high that health care providers are dropping them on a daily basis.
On top of that, each year the bankrupt Medicare system steals more money from the Treasury’s general fund because it is not self-sustaining. ALL the money paid into the Medicare system by those not currently receiving Medicare benefits (like me, and you if you’re not retired) combined with ALL the money paid into the Medicare system by its members DOES NOT COVER the costs of Medicare’s mediocre reimbursements.
You’re probably also completely ignorant of the fact that Medicare is NOT a comprehensive insurance. There’s a boatload of stuff that isn’t covered. ALL seniors must purchase additional supplemental policies to pay for the things Medicare doesn’t cover or pay for those things out-of-pocket.
You’re undoubtedly going to tell me that seniors can just opt out of Medicare if they don’t like it. WRONG. On top of everything else, Medicare extorts premiums from seniors by denying their Social Security benefits if they opt out of Part A. That’s right – if you want to purchase your own private insurance instead of stealing more money from the Taxpayers every year, you LOSE your Social Security benefits.
In two years’ time, the only way Medicare will stay in operation is through increased annual deficit spending (e.g., borrowing money from China). If you had the slightest clue what you were talking about here, you’d be aware of some of these things.
- Simply require the federal government to purchase medical services at the same rate as private insurers.
You’re either not paying attention or you’re just not willing to let go of your brainwashing. You can’t “require” the federal government to do anything. Medicare is ALREADY BANKRUPT NOW, you fool. How do you think they could afford to operate if they paid higher, ‘competitive’ rates and stopped rejecting claims at such an egregious rate?? See above.
And – more importantly – if we’re trying to SAVE money, why on earth would you push the government to increase its reimbursement rate instead of working to BRING HEALTH CARE COSTS BACK DOWN TO AFFORDABLE LEVELS by fixing the broken market??!?! Your statements make absolutely no sense whatsoever.
- your belief about the uninsured not being responsible for the majority of health care inflation was not supported by any sources.
You have this backward, chump. You have to actually produce some evidence that shows how health care cost increases are caused by the so-called “uninsured”, as you claim. You haven’t.
- You didn’t answer that question BTW.
Yes, I did. Again, you haven’t produced ANY evidence that 45 million people are stealing anything. Your question is thus based on a False Premise.
- Finally, I noticed that you have repeatedly asked for sources of information but have not provided any of your own.
Sure I did. You were just afraid to follow the links. Neither of your “sources” provides evidence to back up your idiotic assertion about the “uninsured”.
Now, run along and find someone to teach you how to spell ‘independent’.
