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Wow, people still fall for the "private insurance companies create competition in the marketplace" spin. How has this "competition" benefited the general population with health insurance plans? Lowered premium costs? Lowered costs for employers offering health insurance to employees? Enabled more people affordable insurance? Lowered the costs of health care in general? Nope, just the opposite.
Recent study of OECD (34) countries health care costs:
The US in 2010, spent $8,233 on health per person. The next highest spender countries, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, spent $3,000 less per person. Average spending among the 33 countries,excluding US, is $3,268 per person. Our private health insurance marketplace competition is doing a lousy job. Percentage health care cost of our GDP: US spends one and a half times as much as any other country and nearly twice the OECD countries average.
If the Ryan under 55 privatized plan voted for and touted by Chip is such a good replacement, why not implement it immediately for seniors now covered by traditional Medicare immediately next Jan? There is an election next week. Most seniors aren't as stupid as the GOP thinks they are and wouldn't vote for throwing them into the private insurance market and killing Medicare. Plenty of people under 55 people aren't buying this fantasy either.
We constantly hear from Republcians that the US is too broke, can't afford to keep SS, Medicare, Medicaid, VA healthy but we can afford Romney continuing the Bush tax cuts that were heavily skewed for the ultra wealthy and give them even more tax cuts amounting to trillions. It's illogical, irresponsible and dishonest to claim you can do both at the same time. It should be clear by now that the top priority is to funnel the money to top who don't need it and stick the rest of us with the bill paid for with our tax dollars and taking away our Medicare, etc.
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