Comments on: Rudycare: The Great Right Hope http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/08/01/rudycare-the-great-right-hope/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:39:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Matt http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/08/01/rudycare-the-great-right-hope/#comment-4966 Matt Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:02:27 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/08/01/rudycare-the-great-right-hope/#comment-4966 There is essentially nothing in there other than "expand access to health savings accounts" - whatever that means, that is any more than what we currently have. How does it expand the free market to give even more government money to low income people? Or to arbitrarily cap their recovery when physicians are negligent? Yawn, more of the same promise more at no cost from another big govt. Republican. Interesting that 14 months before the election according to Catron the libertarian the only two choices are two nanny-state loving, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage types. There is essentially nothing in there other than “expand access to health savings accounts” - whatever that means, that is any more than what we currently have. How does it expand the free market to give even more government money to low income people? Or to arbitrarily cap their recovery when physicians are negligent?

Yawn, more of the same promise more at no cost from another big govt. Republican.

Interesting that 14 months before the election according to Catron the libertarian the only two choices are two nanny-state loving, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage types.

]]> By: Mr. Moderate http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/08/01/rudycare-the-great-right-hope/#comment-4963 Mr. Moderate Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:09:30 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/08/01/rudycare-the-great-right-hope/#comment-4963 RudyCare is a pipe dream. By his own vague estimates the lag time between his proposal's being enacted and the insurance companies response by lowering individual care is going to be very large, and he doesn't discuss anything about covering the gap. Furthermore his claim that the problem is company's propensity to over-insure is laughable. In the age where companies are being forced to pass cost increases on to employees rather than always absorb them, and this after they've chosen a reasonable though barebones health insurance plan, it is ludicrous to claim the problem is over-insurance. I hated HillaryCare in 1994. Having now gone through trying to get a terminally ill parent health coverage and dealing with that process I'm very for the concept of a single payer system (although not just any old one that comes along). The current one, where healthy people pay in and sick people are dumped, is not benefiting anyone except the health insurance companies. The free market works well but is not perfect, and it is what has gotten us to the point where we are today. Just closing our eyes and saying "free market will save the day" is the ideological mirror of the socialist ideology of closing our eyes and saying "government will save the day." RudyCare is a pipe dream. By his own vague estimates the lag time between his proposal’s being enacted and the insurance companies response by lowering individual care is going to be very large, and he doesn’t discuss anything about covering the gap. Furthermore his claim that the problem is company’s propensity to over-insure is laughable. In the age where companies are being forced to pass cost increases on to employees rather than always absorb them, and this after they’ve chosen a reasonable though barebones health insurance plan, it is ludicrous to claim the problem is over-insurance.

I hated HillaryCare in 1994. Having now gone through trying to get a terminally ill parent health coverage and dealing with that process I’m very for the concept of a single payer system (although not just any old one that comes along). The current one, where healthy people pay in and sick people are dumped, is not benefiting anyone except the health insurance companies.

The free market works well but is not perfect, and it is what has gotten us to the point where we are today. Just closing our eyes and saying “free market will save the day” is the ideological mirror of the socialist ideology of closing our eyes and saying “government will save the day.”

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