I don't understand why people can't see why it's such a terrible thing to tie health insurance to a job. A) there's no real free market there...you get what the job gives you. B) You are then tied to that job if you get anything serious, or anyone in your family gets anything serious. C) It screws over small businesses and artists/writers/freelancers/etc. The public option (note the word OPTION!) would free us from that. Sigh.
This post makes me cry more than yesterday's. Everything feels so hopeless. The only good things are coming out, and more of the bad stuff are going in... what the hell is going on?
I agree and think you said it very well. We need the public option or we'll get no real reform at all. I'm linking to this from my own lj. Let me know if that's not ok and I will remove the link.
I'm all for having a public option available. I am. But one thing I do have a problem with on the reform bill is that they want to regulate the insurance industry even more than it already is. In order to process claims (I work in dental), it's amazing all the hoops we have to jump through to do it right. We get fined for taking too long, but if some little niggling thing is off, we get sued for doing it wrong. Did you know that the profit of our company is 3 cents on the premium dollar? Forty cents goes to paying for all those regulations the government imposes. The more they regulate, the more companies not as big as Anthem/Wellpoint (my employer) will simply have to STOP providing options. I hate a lack of options, but once you find out how much training you have to do to even safely SEE certain types of claims, the more you realize that it isn't the big insurance companies' fault.
And why are government regulations in place? Because left unregulated Profit Rules All and it doesn't matter what happens so long as the top dogs don't make money screw the rest of us
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Doctors don't make money if people don't go to see them. People don't go to see them because they aren't insured. I'm sorry, but denying claims because someone mistyped the letter O instead of a zero doesn't make me weep for the insurance company. Laws are wonderful things but when they start verging on the ridiculous they start to be used as hedges of thorns behind which simple things that CAN be done AREN'T done because of "the law
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I don't understand why people can't see why it's such a terrible thing to tie health insurance to a job. A) there's no real free market there...you get what the job gives you. B) You are then tied to that job if you get anything serious, or anyone in your family gets anything serious. C) It screws over small businesses and artists/writers/freelancers/etc. The public option (note the word OPTION!) would free us from that. Sigh.
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It was nice to meet you at Worldcon, by the way!
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And re. Worldcon - likewise.
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