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October 10, 2008 at 17:01:27

The Bane of Health Insurance

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The Bane of Health Insurance
by Jet Graphics

Universal Health Care / Insurance is a scam, a scheme, and shameful

You have heard it repeated in all news media: The cry of the suffering uninsured. It is raised to seek our consent and approval of the most shameful, disgusting, and destructive collectivist concept - universal health care.

Make no mistake about it - it is based on a lie, a scam, and a scheme.

Health "Insurance" does not insure health - it is a complex scheme to hide thieves from plain sight, while they line their pockets at your expense.

Consider Health Maintenance Organizations - for a small prepaid fee, one would get “all” the medical treatment that one needed - as long as it conformed to the guidelines - and didn’t violate the contract small print. However, there was one small side effect no one paid much attention to - the skim. These “organizations” were taking a healthy skim of profits from the pool of money that was earmarked to pay for physicians, nurses, medicines, hospitals, equipment, etc. Simple math skills should tell us that the skim means HIGHER COST.

Whatever the medical establishment was being paid before insurance, would cost MORE after insurance. It is inescapable.

In addition, the voluminous record keeping requirements of insurance plans meant that the physician at a small clinic had to mutate into a bloated bureaucracy with intake secretaries, assistants, nurses, paper pushing clerks, legal guidance, malpractice insurance, and so on. And the cost would go UP while service would go DOWN.

And the same thing happened to every employer who offered “health insurance” to the employees. Increased cost, for less benefit. Don't forget that this expense was passed on to the customer, hidden in the retail price.

Make no mistake about it - insurance has driven up the cost of buying medical treatment, while driving down the payments per patient to the medical staff.

When you couple usury into any enterprise, taking a fee, in money, from the use of the money, you corrupt it. Usury is an abomination,condemned by every religion (except Satanism). (For those who honor the Bible, see Ezekiel 18:13 KJV) Every aspect of the health care industry that pays usury / interest to nonperforming "investors" is abominable, gaining riches from the suffering of millions.

Now, we see candidates campaigning on the promise to make health care available to EVERYONE. Can you imagine how much that will cost you? How much less you will get per payment? How much more skim “the insiders” will get? How large the bureaucracy will be? How long you will have to wait, in queues, lines, and waiting rooms?

Oppose the call for “Universal Health Insurance”, and promote every way to drive DOWN the cost for hiring medical practitioners and buying necessary treatment. Kick out the usurers who parasitically feed on the ill and suffering masses, who are bled to death for the usurer's wicked gain.Kick out the bureaucrats who bloat on complexity and regulation. Stop requiring the sick to buy permission from a licensed drug pusher before buying the drugs they need.

If we truly want universal health care, repeal all laws that prevent people from treating their brethren. Eliminate the “controlled substance” prohibition, and allow any adult the right to acquire whatever medicines or substances he deems necessary for his health. Increase access to medical education, and end the artificial scarcity of medical practitioners. End the monopoly of the Medical establishment, and industrialize medical care where practical.

An example of the benefits of mass production medical care is cataract surgery in the third world.
http://thewellnessrevolution.paulzanepilzer.com/geofftabin.php
Tabin and Ruit deliver cataract surgery at $20 per surgery. Which is 175 times cheaper than $3,500 (U.S.A.) pricetag, thanks to the medical insurance “industry”. (Imagine the cost if / when UHC kicks in!)

Why not establish “factory” surgeries that are set up for one specific type of surgery? Ditto for diagnostics, dentists, opticians, and other segments of the health care industry. With specialized “factory”surgeries, technicians need only train for that specialty, reducing the cost while increasing the pool of skilled care givers.

The people have been misled for generations to believe that the government is the source of last resort. Never forget that (socialist) government gives nothing that was not first taken from somebody else. Government (Socialist) makes nothing but more government.

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an independent progressive that is fed up with the stranglehold the MSM has on the dissemination of news crucial to the survival of our system of government.
macduff40an independent progressive that is fed up with the stranglehold the MSM has on the dissemination of news crucial to the survival of our system of government.

facts are facts

The cost (overhead if you will) for government supplied health care insurance (read medicare) is much much lower that that supplied by the current system of 1500 or so health care insurers. This has been reported by Harvard Medical School. The total annual health care industry is about 2.1 trillion dollars, and private insurers skim off about one third of that. Medicare overhead is I believe around 13%. Also do not confuse government health care (read VA) with private health care where the providers are your current doctor(s) and hospital. Finally, be aware that socialized medicine is where the doctors and caregivers are government employees and the hospitals are government owned (again read Veterans Healthcare and Veterans Hospitals).

ref: click here

There is more, much more at the above click here link

by macduff40 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments) on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 12:37:47 PM

I am a retired opera singer. I was a leading soprano with the New York City Opera for ten years. I am a strong supporter of Dennis Kucinich and worked for his campaign in 2004. I believe that he is the ONLY honest man in congress. He has been working against this insane war since before it began. I am 72 years old and I have been so frustrated with the media, the Congress and the American people that they don't tell the truth.
CaronomeI am a retired opera singer. I was a leading soprano with the New York City Opera for ten years. I am a strong supporter of Dennis Kucinich and worked for his campaign in 2004. I believe that he is the ONLY honest man in congress. He has been working against this insane war since before it began. I am 72 years old and I have been so frustrated with the media, the Congress and the American people that they don't tell the truth.

The cost of insurance supplied health care is rediculous!

If I hear one of the candidates utter the phrase "affordable health care" one more time, I'll scream.

The only affordable health care is Medicare which is the only well run, reasonably priced one. Also, as Jet Graphics states, the Veterans health care.

It's only the propaganda of the insurance companies that tries to convince us all that it would cost more to eliminate the whore insurance companies.

Listen to Michael Moore's Sicko and know that in the countries where they have the proper health care, everybody, including the doctors, is happy.To hear the insurance companies tell it, we would be selling our souls if we cut out the userers(insurance companies).

The truth is that when a person is sick and vulnerable, a for profit system of health care is obscene. Ask me. I've had to fight the insurance companies for every surgery payment I've had and I've had 20 surgeries.

by Caronome (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 237 comments) on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 3:14:53 PM

Retired. Male. Western Minnesota. Social Science/Spanish undergrad majors. Master's in Counseling. Socialist.
Bryan EmmelRetired. Male. Western Minnesota. Social Science/Spanish undergrad majors. Master's in Counseling. Socialist.

The Bane of Health Insurance

This piece was written by some nut job working on an assigned agenda. The logic here is that all of Europe, Scandinavia and indeed the industrialized world is providing health care based on a scam. Blather!

by Bryan Emmel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 218 comments) on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 3:34:37 AM

Jet Graphics is what an IBM computer (1980 vintage) spell checker thought my name should be spelled. I am a student of the infinite, and enjoy science fiction, philosophy, history, and morality conundrums. I like music of all types, especially if it has a melody and harmony.
Love God - Love Neighbor - Forgive Trespassers - Be Happy!
Jet GraphicsJet Graphics is what an IBM computer (1980 vintage) spell checker thought my name should be spelled. I am a student of the infinite, and enjoy science fiction, philosophy, history, and morality conundrums. I like music of all types, especially if it has a melody and harmony.
Love God - Love Neighbor - Forgive Trespassers - Be Happy!

"INSURANCE" not "CARE"

Please engage brain before reading.

The issue was INSURANCE, the scam to skim money from the pool of health care money, not CARE.

Though, socialized medical care is also plagued with its own problems - rationing, bureaucracy, and the like.

by Jet Graphics (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 24 comments) on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 5:02:24 AM

I am a senior citizen tremendously interested - and alarmed - at the way the world is turning.
Jean BraunI am a senior citizen tremendously interested - and alarmed - at the way the world is turning.

The Bane of Health Insurance

Despite my agreement that in a caring society, everyone should have health care, this is the first article on universal health care that makes any sense to me. Jet Graphics touches on several "thinking out of the box" ideas which could redeem our society from the sky-high inflationary effects of underwriting any kind of universal Medicare as it is practiced today.

Thanks, Jet Graphics! This article should not be drowned in the non-depth rhetoric on universal health care of this election season.

by Jean Braun (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 29 comments) on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:43:54 AM