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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:47 AM Original message |
What value *do* insurance companies add to American health care? |
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t0dd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
1. Here, let me break it down for you.. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:50 AM Original message |
Well put. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. The question is whether Health Care is a personal problem or a national problem |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Another question is whether the risk pool ought to be controlled by people looking to |
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Mr Generic Other (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
27. #1, your diagram visualizing how the insurance industry fits into american society |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wealth based health care allocation.... |
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el_bryanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. I think it's a case of unintended consequences |
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cdsilv (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
4. In some instances, they actually pay for medical care. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:06 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. They're not in business to pay for medical care. |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:12 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. True reform is what they're scared of. |
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brewens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
5. If Not Reform; Outsource Insurance. |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
7. They add nothing, but they do allow a handful of CEOs to |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. They're pretty much fiscal agents taking care of paying providers |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
9. Zero, Zip, Nada, Nyet, Ought, |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Nichevo |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Oh, Right! There's a value-add!! |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
10. They insured us when no one else would, paying our bills and keeping us from losing |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. I can only imagine that you were insured through a large employer |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
12. A cut for the execs, investors, lobbyists and whores in DC? |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. The Democrats should have been screaming this from the start |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
17. They add about 25% in additional administrative costs that could be eliminated |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
18. I can answer that historically. It's an important question about how we got into this mess. |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Very interesting post. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:42 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I'm sure I'll be called a shill for big pharma or something. |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
20. Currently - ask those who don't have insurance? |
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gmoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
22. once upon a time, insurance was based on "spreading the risk around" |
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auditguy (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
23. error, removing |
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demodonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
25. Insurance Companies add NOTHING to USA healthcare but stress and heartache. |
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area51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
26. Kick. (n/t) |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
28. they provide employment for a segment of the population?- but |
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dem mba (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. what would you say you...do here? |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. It's their job to throw workers off the train when they become sick and unprofitable. |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
33. none . . . but they're very well paid for it . . . n/t |
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