A good part of the reason Insurance companies have been unsatisfactory in some ways — is because the government has been interfering with them for a long time.
If they were opened up to across the country competition, they’d have to be excellent or would go out of business.
This just passed Health Care bill is a stealth plan to get to single payer — one way is to bankrupt the insurance companies — and the other is to force them into giving worse and worse service while they try to survive, driving a wedge of hatred between them and the public. By that time, the plan is, the public will blame them — not the government — and be so fed up — they’ll “submit” to socialized medicine.
My 67 year old friend in Norway had to wait 2 years for surgery for a life-threatening ailment. Everyone thought he’d die before getting it. It’s just chance that he didn’t. That’s the kind of treatment we can expect.
And it could have been resolved so much better for all of us — including the poor and those with “pre-existing” conditions.
