by Epimenides - a physician
"I am no lover of insurance companies. After all, I have sued them, and would do it again tomorrow. But there can be an enormous difference between private insurance corporations, and government. If you examine the issue closely, you will see that corporations are NOT at the root of the problem.
Here's why.
Who "regulates" insurance companies? Who tells them what kind of policies they can and can't write? Who decides that health insurance bought by a company you work for is a deductible business expense, but the same thing bought by you, personally, is not a deductible personal expense? In short, what is it that sets up the rules that favor insurance companies and give them the ability to do what they do? In particular, who gives them rules they LIKE, if they pay the bribes?
Yes, you are right. Government. Government is the absolute, unequivocal, root of the problem with medical care. Rules, regulations, favors, taxation preferences, "licensing" requirements, "capital" requirements, etc... all these things are holy writ from GOVERNMENT, and enforced, at the point of a gun, by GOVERNMENT.
Why can't you and I start a little "mutual" insurance company with our 5-guy family practice? Why can't we buy reinsurance from somebody in Bermuda and provide for our patients based on them paying us $90 a month apiece? Yes, you guessed it - government.
Why can't we, and 3 other groups like us, especially if we are each running our own little mutual company, then cut our costs by doing our imaging at our own imaging center, instead of paying for it to go somewhere else? Ah, yes. Stark laws. Government.
Why can't I enter into a voluntary agreement with a patient, enforceable by a mutually-agreed-upon enforcement company, to prevent him from suing me frivolously? Because one entity claims the monopoly on violence and enforcement - government.
Health care "reform" is a subset of "liberty 'reform'", and without liberty, there will be no real "reform" of anything at all. The antithesis of liberty is government.
And the folks who run it, like it that way."
by Epimenides
physician (verified)
"I am no lover of insurance companies. After all, I have sued them, and would do it again tomorrow. But there can be an enormous difference between private insurance corporations, and government. If you examine the issue closely, you will see that corporations are NOT at the root of the problem.
Here's why.
Who "regulates" insurance companies? Who tells them what kind of policies they can and can't write? Who decides that health insurance bought by a company you work for is a deductible business expense, but the same thing bought by you, personally, is not a deductible personal expense? In short, what is it that sets up the rules that favor insurance companies and give them the ability to do what they do? In particular, who gives them rules they LIKE, if they pay the bribes?
Yes, you are right. Government. Government is the absolute, unequivocal, root of the problem with medical care. Rules, regulations, favors, taxation preferences, "licensing" requirements, "capital" requirements, etc... all these things are holy writ from GOVERNMENT, and enforced, at the point of a gun, by GOVERNMENT.
Why can't you and I start a little "mutual" insurance company with our 5-guy family practice? Why can't we buy reinsurance from somebody in Bermuda and provide for our patients based on them paying us $90 a month apiece? Yes, you guessed it - government.
Why can't we, and 3 other groups like us, especially if we are each running our own little mutual company, then cut our costs by doing our imaging at our own imaging center, instead of paying for it to go somewhere else? Ah, yes. Stark laws. Government.
Why can't I enter into a voluntary agreement with a patient, enforceable by a mutually-agreed-upon enforcement company, to prevent him from suing me frivolously? Because one entity claims the monopoly on violence and enforcement - government.
Health care "reform" is a subset of "liberty 'reform'", and without liberty, there will be no real "reform" of anything at all. The antithesis of liberty is government.
And the folks who run it, like it that way."
by Epimenides
physician (verified)
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