Do you think doctors and executives should be middle class, lower middle
class or poor?
I don't assign class structure to jobs. I believe that the cost of
medical care should be managed and the profit can be found where it may.
I am tired to doctors holding the US hostage. A few years ago Maryland
doctors threatened to leave the state if they didn't pass a bill
limiting malpractice damages to $250,000. Consider that for a moment.
Regardless of how badly a doctor botches a job, he will never be liable
for damages of more than $250,000, even if your life is destroyed and
the resulting medical care will cost millions. The threat worked and
the state passed the bill.
No, if they can afford it, they pay for it.
If they can't afford it, then those that can afford it pay again.
No, if you can't afford health care, you don't get health care. Anyone
who tells you it is freely available to everyone who has no money is
full of bullshark.
So, do you think those than can afford it will pay more to cover
everyone, or, do you think everyone's health care quality will be lower?
Mikek
I think the health care mandate will assure that everyone has the
opportunity to access health care. This will result in the aggregate
costs going up (which by the way is the reason why hospitals and other
care givers agreed to lower compensation from Medicare as part of this
bill). Of course, if we want to cover everyone with health care it will
cost more. But the cost will go up more than this amount as the medical
industry is greedy and will try to extract more profit. The end result
is that it will become unwieldy and the true nature of the cost
increases will finally be visible.
That is what started this thread conversation, the rise in insurance
rates that began long before the Affordable Health Care Act was even on
the table.
Rick