This is true. Just look up the costs of some of the chemotherapy drugs for example, with and without insurance.
I'm starting to get my insulin from Canada....at 1/3 the cost. Why we pay so much more in America boggles the mind...but that's another topic.
Has anyone read this? http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/7298 Like most things from Milton Friedman, it makes nothing but sense.
I am pretty sure the reason we are having this debate is because costs have already sky rocketed, far surpassing the rate of inflation. Have your rates been going down over the past 20 years? Not mine. If so, please share who you are purchasing insurance from so we can all switch over.
I don't think this has to do with the health care debate....but it sure is interesting. And I wouldn't be surprised if this is why so much pork is attached to that bill...namely, not many were able to read it.
if obamacare is such a great plan then why did Congress and the Whitehouse excuse themselves from it?
If I recall, a Senator did introduce a bill that said if obamacare was passed that everyone that voted on it would be automatically enrolled in it. it failed almost as bad as obamas budget.
Because they already have coverage. Obama has always said that the Health Law does not force anybody to change plans, it just give more options to the self-employed that have difficulty finding affordable insurance or cannot obtain insurance due to pre-existing conditions. Subsidizing health insurance for the indigents makes more sense than continuing to operate state charity hospitals and free county clinics for them. Talk about socialized medicine! Louisiana could scrap our gulag of expensive charity hospitals. The indigents would receive their insurance from private companies and be able to use it at the private doctors and hospitals of their choice, which is good for the economy and reduces state employee and facility costs.
