http://www.drpribut.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/67-33-health-care-reform-wins-among-insured/ normalizing it all Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:57:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.drpribut.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/67-33-health-care-reform-wins-among-insured/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Elizabeth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:06:19 +0000 http://www.drpribut.com/blog/?p=408#comment-145 These are all the same words, same speeches given back when the government invented HMOs to give competition and reduce insurance rates. All that the HMOs did was drive other insurance options out and force people in those areas into HMOs. HMOs rewarded doctors for withholding care and the president mentioned withholding care in his speech. Same reasoning, same bad plan. It ended with people dying from long waits and from care being withheld. The fact that even if a public option is passed it will not go into effect until 2013, safely past the next election, tells the truth about everyone in D.C. knowing that the people will hate it and be furious as soon as they see it is the bad old HMO scheme but even worse. There is a lot through passing laws the government can do to help, but they need to stay out of running health insurance or health care. A few more years won't bring a revelation on how to revive a dead horse back to life and it won't bring one for how to make a national HMO work that angry and unhappy people are forced into. These are all the same words, same speeches given back when the government invented HMOs to give competition and reduce insurance rates. All that the HMOs did was drive other insurance options out and force people in those areas into HMOs. HMOs rewarded doctors for withholding care and the president mentioned withholding care in his speech. Same reasoning, same bad plan. It ended with people dying from long waits and from care being withheld.
The fact that even if a public option is passed it will not go into effect until 2013, safely past the next election, tells the truth about everyone in D.C. knowing that the people will hate it and be furious as soon as they see it is the bad old HMO scheme but even worse.
There is a lot through passing laws the government can do to help, but they need to stay out of running health insurance or health care. A few more years won’t bring a revelation on how to revive a dead horse back to life and it won’t bring one for how to make a national HMO work that angry and unhappy people are forced into.

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