Reply #15: Here Comes The "Market Forces" Arguments Again

[Yavin4]

Bush wants all of us to go out and buy health insurance on our own. The right-wing-talking-points will be, "hey, your employer doesn't buy car insurance for you. why should they buy health insurance for you." Bank on hearing that a million times.

Market forces won't work in the health care industry because people do get sick, and when they get sick, they get treated whether they can pay or not. Even people with health insurance have all kinds of payment levels because of deductibles. Thus, a hospital administrator has to sort patients out based on whether they can pay at all, whether their HMO will pay some or all of the bill, whether the patient can pay some or all of the bill, etc. This payment complexity is what causes the overhead on health care to skyrocket.

A single-payer, national health insurance fund where everyone pays into one fund and gets coverage no matter what works the best. Just eliminate the words, "over 65" from medicare and everything will be okay.