Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
Many that are currently not insured are those who choose not to purchase insurance, due to the cost vs the perceived amount of risk. Young people tend to opt out of spending on insurance as much. That is fact. Adding these will lower the risk, allowing insurance companies to balance out the higher risk insured that you mentioned. This could allow insurance companies to have the ability not to raise rates on a whole.

The reason that rates will rise has nothing to do with insurance claims. It has to do with profit. Private insurance companies are typically publically traded, and funded through their stockholders. These stockholders expect a postive return on their investment, so the company must show growth and profit. Rates will continue to rise to show increase in profit driven by revenue. As soon as your company stops growing, your investors will leave you for another company.

Medicare is broken, that cannot be denied. I am not a fan of government run healthcare, but I am able to look at the problem outside of the partisan lines.


i'm a fan of G healthcare, so long as it's used from the 35-40% that's already being taken from income taxes....i mean dayum.

question. does anyone have a definitive and non-biased synopsis of the government ran healthcare systems of the UK and Canada, France and Cuba?

from what i've seen before, England began theirs after the obliteration of WW2, when their country was FUBAR. unless someone corrects me, their medical professionals are still well paid...

Canada? i personally have no idea. though it takes longer to be treated(C-span )

France...no clue exactly but it's rolled into their taxes.

reduce the frickin defense budget...actually, citizens need to go to DC, find every lobbyist and toss their asses out into the streets. but back to the defense budget...$663.7billion?? what enemies do we have? i mean, i know we have an empire....700 worldwide facilities attests to that. but do we have any enemies that warrant that $$? not that i know of. how about we have our services @ home, training as usual, occupying bases in the US for what they are for, defense of this land. i'm sure if all our forces were home, this in service would be happier, plus im sure the border hopping would stop fast as hell, seeing marines doing desert training @ the border. and i know, the military charter states they arent to operate inside the borders....take the fight to the enemy, but we are, IMO, spread thin as hell our back doors open.

then kick the bankers in the balls, get our money back, kick our Reps in their asses too...they work for us, not lobbyists


i'm frustrated as hell about this countrys current standings...... it's looking very, very, very bad.