Comments on: Automatic Payroll Deduction For Health Insurance Premiums

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:29:43 +0000

Anonymous – We very much agree that a single payer health care system is much better than mandated health insurance. I, personally, don’t like the idea of mandated health insurance at all. I think it is the only politically feasible idea legislators have been able to come up with to fix the system and it also has the side effect of growing an industry that already has a lot of power over Congress.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:23:55 +0000

I am frankly exhausted with paying the insane insurance premiums and all of the costs insurance doesn’t pay that I need to try to keep my eyesight. But since I own my own home, does that make me a bad person if I simply can’t pay for all of it? The irony is that, if I can’t pay for all of this myself, I will go blind and then on disability, and then the government will be paying my way.

Please be clear that insurance and health care are two different things.

Mandated insurance makes everyone pay but does not guarantee health care. That system merely supports the health insurance industry. It is favored by lawmakers because they are elected by deep pockets such as those you will find in this industry.l

Single-payer is health care not health insurance. It’s cheaper, it is humane and it leads to lower infant mortality rates and longer lives. This is in large part because people go to the doctor instead of avoiding it because they are petrified of the costs.

By: Joey Gallo

Joey Gallo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:00 +0000

A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WILL SHUT DOWN SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES AND FORCE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INTO THE STREETS WITH NO JOBS TO SUPPORT THEIR FAMILIES. With that in mind, why banish hundreds of businesses across that country that are contributing to our economy? Instead, adjust the current system, regulate the way hospitals spend rather than regulate the companies that pay the bills. Why should health insurance companies pay hundreds of dollars for mistakes made by hospitals and doctors? Why do hospitals charge hundreds of dollars to the insurance companies for a procedure that costs pennies? I realize time is money, but most of these charges are ridiculously overpriced. Get real, universal healthcare will not fix anything.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:00:36 +0000

It is an interesting question. I don’t think that people should be required to buy health insurance. But I also don’t think anybody is making the decision to turn down health care when they get seriously ill if they don’t have coverage. Bankruptcy is a much better fate than death.
You make a lot of good points in your blog though forHealth.

By: forHealth

forHealth — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:27:20 +0000

So now you want to pass judgment on people who live in a comfortable home and drive a newer car. And you want to take away a basic freedom – the right to refuse health insurance or health care, for that matter. Instead you want to rob the rich to pay the poor – aka the redistribution of wealth. That is not what America is about.