Health Insurance Profits Statistics
Should your health be a profit-making enterprise for companies?
I want to know how people think about health insurance companies vs. non-profit co-ops or government-run or tightly government-regulated systems, such as those used by every advanced country in the world except the U.S.
I truly, truly want to know how the opposition explains or defends that, especially since we have worse health statistics than much, much poorer countries than ourselves. What makes us so different from everyone else that health care is left up to profit-makers and not the entity that exists to represent the people (i.e. the government elected by the people)?
I jsut don’t get what those who support such a system are thinking in the face of such facts.
You can have private health care insurance companies and still provide health care for all. Germany and Switzerland provide Universal Health Care and there is no public option there but they spend less on health care than we do and get similar health outcomes.
Why? Their health insurance companies there use a different business model than we do. They make profits on providing basic care. This gives US health insurance companies the incentive to take in payments and deny care when it can. The other health insurance companies make profits on the number of members in their plan. They have incentive on keeping their members happy. The best way to force companies to adopt that model is to introduce the public option. Blue Cross and Blue Shield once used this model.
This will not lead to government takeover of health care industry. If you believe that, you underestimate the power and creativity of capitalists.
“The Profiteers”
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