You know, I should say something about this -

[kyburg]

I am seriously considering dropping any payments to a health care system that does not DIRECTLY fund infrastructure - hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists...care. Period.

I will happily pay premiums to a system like Kaiser that in turns uses those funds to build, maintain and staff facilities for its members.

Funding a system that works to provide profits while banking my bucks - and doing nothing more with them - is looking like a worse idea all the time.

So say we all. Enough, already.

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[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

People need to understand one fundamental fact, a simple one that they just don't seem to properly grasp:

"Health insurance companies don't exist to pay for anyone's treatment - they exist to generate value for their shareholders."

That's the same as for any other company, and there's nothing wrong with it. If you get sick, they have a fiduciary responsibility to not pay for your treatment. Yet they have a contractual obligation to do the opposite... a giant conflict of interest.

You want to fix healthcare in the US? You absolutely, 100% must get rid of for-profit health insurance. Anything else is a band-aid rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Those 'co-cops' that are being proposed as an alternative to 'Gubmint run' insurance? That's modeled after the Swiss system, which works quite well. The Swiss co-ops are also heavily regulated, non-profit entities.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Which I've had first-hand experience with. *nods firmly*

WHY is anyone talking about Canada anyway? I don't get this.

And why isn't anyone talking about Japan and Germany? We can do single-payer, public option health care - look at the systems WE BUILT for them. *sheeshes*

[moropus.livejournal.com]

This. Lots of this.

[mdlbear]

I'm with you. I'm very happy with Kaiser, and have been for over three decades.