The Economic Question at the Core of the Individual Mandate

[Owlet]

The theory that health care is a consumer good like any other commercial product and that health care markets work like other markets is pure fantasy, at odds with everything we know about how health care is actually consumed. Health care markets violate the fundamental tenets of market economics…

Health care is a public good, not a commodity. The reason that other developed countries spend so much less on health care, and cover all their people and deliver higher health quality care, is that these countries recognize this fact. As a public good, health care must be made available on an equitable basis to all, and prices and supply must be regulated. In the rest of the developed world, almost everyone has their health coverage supplied by the government or by a regulated nonprofit insurer, and the coverage comes with very low out-of-pocket costs. In other words, other developed countries follow the exact opposite course recommended by conservatives and achieve systems that are much more efficient economically.

http://www.newdeal20.org/2012/03/27/the-economic-question-at-the-core-of-the-individual-mandate-75194/

[postulater]

1. Health care is the extension of our

family's support when we need their help. It's just as important to our communities as our roads that link us together.

[CAPHAVOC]

2. It is not about health care

This is only about "Health Insurance".

[Owlet]

3. Well, when it comes to this country

they're pretty much one and the same, aren't they?

[CAPHAVOC]

4. Not on a bet.

The only way to win this game is to lose in SCOTUS.

[Cleita]

6. Since all we have up until now is health insurance,

why not regulate it?

[CAPHAVOC]

7. By the time it would come in 2014 we could have Medicare.

[Cleita]

8. I would want that but I'm slowly giving up hope.

However, we can't throw out second best, not yet.

[CAPHAVOC]

9. Don't do that

The phrase Medicare for all strikes fear in to the hearts of Conservatives. Real fear.

[Cleita]

5. Our politicians and the justices know this.

They also know that the for profit health insurance industry is sooo good for their campaign coffers and their stock portfolios. That's the bottom line simply and they need to have that thrown in their face over and over again until they get it that we get it.