ObamaCare Cancelled Your Health Insurance.

[DanG 1]

Fascinating. Please note:

"Your search for racist in posts made by rushmc returned 420 results"

Does that mean you're three times as racist as Kallend?

- Dan G

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DanG

Fascinating. Please note:

"Your search for racist in posts made by rushmc returned 420 results"

Does that mean you're three times as racist as Kallend?

I did not do any search

but give me some time
I need to check with my tribe

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I need to check with my tribe

Sure.

In the meantime, still waiting on examples of people calling anyone who opposes Obama a racist.

- Dan G

[Skwrl 56]

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***As someone who teaches a graduate school level course on health care law and works as a lawyer at a pharmaceutical company, I can explain why health care is so expensive in the US: unlike many other systems, we don't have a single payer system, which is able to negotiate down prices. If we had a single payer (or, preferably, a small number of competitive payers), costs would be significantly lower.

Useful viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M

* None of this is the view of my employer.

As an attornney who has also had some significant experience in the healthcare field, I think that you have omitted some things from consideration.

(1) "we don't have a single payer system, which is able to negotiate down prices" - there is a significant difference between "price" and "cost." And as you are also aware, when the "price" of something is given a ceiling, the result is scarcity because "price" and "cost" are not the same thing. The mixing of "cost" and "price" is, in my opinion, the biggest single problem we have in the whole debate.

(2) As an attorney in the healthcare law field, you are also aware of the effect of anti-trust law. In order to maintain market viability and consumer choice, any delivery of healthcare is subject to being viewed in terms of monopoly. The reason is that "monopoly" power is generally viewed as bad. How can you reconcile the philosphical framework of anti-trust with the creation of a monopoly power over the price of healthcare?

(3) As one who teaches healthcare law, would you agree with me that the primary policy considerations for a healthcare system number three, which are: (a) Quality; (b) Cost; and (c) Accessibility. You can't have all three (high quality, low cost and available on demand). To this extent healthcare is an exception to most economic models.

(4) In your experience, would you agree that the pricing for healthcare services is based upon Medicare reimbursement? So there is a de facto single-payer negotiated price?

To sum up, doesn't a single-payer system eliminate bargaining power under the fundamentals of law that we all learn? And is there an example anywhere in the world where a single-payer system has not resulted in either: (1) low quality/inequality of treatment; or (2) rationing and significant wait times?

By the way, you know that health insurance companies have been exempt from federal antitrust law since at least the 1940s, right? I know it's unrelated to your thesis, but the idea that it's a competitive market isn't quite a fair description of it.

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In the meantime, still waiting on examples of people calling anyone who opposes Obama a racist.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moronic-things-liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/page/full

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American." -- Jimmy Carter