2009-10-04

What does health-care reform mean in the United States?

Here's Michael Moore's view -

 


1. No cost controls on insurance companies. The coming sharp increases in premiums, deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, etc. will quickly outpace any projected protections from caps on out-of-pocket costs.


2. Insurance companies will continue to be able to use marketing techniques to cherry-pick healthier, less costly enrollees.


3. No restrictions on insurance denials of care that insurers don't want to pay for.

Read more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/why-the-current-bills-don_b_302483.html.


Walmart appears to support this reform - now I know why.


It's always amusing to read online the opinions of people in the US who believe oppose a single-payer or national health care system for all; that it is somehow socialism. Have these people ever experienced living in one of those countries, or raising a family there? Well I've done the former, and would gladly prefer a system like Canada or Switzerland here.

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