Sigelinde of Caterina Says Shell Have to Kill Him Again
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This week on the JOURNAL, Beak Moyers spoke with Wendell Potter, a erstwhile health insurance executive who left the industry to become an abet for health care reform. Potter discussed the industry's history of denying care to members and its all-encompassing efforts to prevent the federal government from creating a "public option" for wellness insurance to compete with private plans. Potter said:
"The industry has always tried to make Americans retrieve that government-run systems are the worst thing that could possibly happen to them, that if y'all even consider that you're heading down the slippery slope towards socialism... I retrieve that people who are strong advocates of our health care system remaining as it is, very much a free market wellness care organisation, fail to realize that we're actually talking nearly man beings hither, and information technology doesn't work as well as they would similar information technology to... They are trying to make y'all worry and fright a authorities bureaucrat being between you lot and your md. What you have now is a corporate bureaucrat between you and your md... The public programme would practise a lot to continue [health insurance companies] honest, because it would have to offer a standard do good plan. Information technology would take to operate more than efficiently, as does the Medicare program. Information technology would be structured, I'k certain, on a level playing field so that it wouldn't [have an] unfair advantage [over] the private insurance companies. Because it could be administered more efficiently, the private insurers would accept to operate more efficiently."
The "public selection" is fundamental to many Democrats' vision for health intendance reform, but it has attracted pointed criticism from supporters of the "single payer" model and opponents of federal intervention alike.
In an edition of the JOURNAL broadcast in May, Dr. Sidney Wolfe of the public involvement group Public Citizen advocated for "single payer" health reform, in which a single government agency would replace and eliminate private health insurance. Wolfe told Moyers that previous experiments with the "public choice" have failed:
"In 7 states, ranging from Washington to Minnesota to Maine, they have tried what amounts to a mixture of a private and a public plan. And in none of the states has there been any sustained reduction in the number of uninsured. It'due south fashion too expensive. As long every bit you have private plans in there, everybody all the same has to do all the bookkeeping and everything. Then, information technology has failed. Every bit Einstein said, 'The definition of insanity is doing something over and over once more, and expecting to take a dissimilar result.' We've seen the aforementioned unsatisfactory, unacceptable outcome, in state after country afterwards state after state after state, why mess upwardly the whole state with information technology?"
Recently, policy analyst Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation, a libertarian group, argued that the "public pick is an economical nightmare." He wrote:
"If [the public option] is working then I will want to exist part of it. And and then will everyone else... Suddenly the public option starts pulling people away from private companies. Those companies will need to charge more for their decreased number of clients... In the concurrently the public option will be overrun, and exist maxed beyond its capacity... [President Obama said] that the government is not capable of running all health care in this economy, which is why his public pick isn't trying to have people from the individual organisation. Ultimately, from an economical perspective, either the public option works and draws in lots of people until it tin't anymore, or it doesn't work and is an economic mess. Either way, it's not pretty."
What practise you recall?
Source: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/07/assessing_a_public_option_for.html
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