03-03-2005, 07:56 PM
to Silera: HMOs are the least profitable of all members of the healthcare industry. The system discourages those buying the product (patients) from doing anything to keep costs down, and therefore doctor, hospital, and drug prices keep rising 10% a year. When people are in charge, that will be changed.
Again, major issues will be covered by insurance, so there's no need to "nickel and dime" anything. Third 25% of the people who signed up for HSAs last year had no insurance previously, so it's certainly not hurting them.
To OAS, talk about reading whatever you want into someone's opinion. I have explicitly said that I don't like Bush. I wouldnt' vote for him. Bush has spent and spent. He pushed the shitty Medicare Modernization Bill, which will ceate yet another governemnt spending program. That's why there's such a deficit and will continue to be one. It doesn't matter what the tax revenues are (when low, we don't cut spending, when high--like during the economic boom of Clinton's second term, we raise spending because of how great things are.)
Spending should be cut. Across the board. Numerous government programs should be ended because they have either outlived their usefulness or were never useful to begin with.
I'm not talking about taxes being raised or lowered, I'm talking about spending. Spending is the problem, not taxes. That's why I said, we don't have a deficit because we aren't taxing enough (and why that's not a valid contra-HSA argument) but because of spending.
And I really don't give a shit to hear yet another cunty anti-war anti-imperialism argument that you and Ken's Pen have vomited back ad nauseum for the last 3 years.
Again, major issues will be covered by insurance, so there's no need to "nickel and dime" anything. Third 25% of the people who signed up for HSAs last year had no insurance previously, so it's certainly not hurting them.
To OAS, talk about reading whatever you want into someone's opinion. I have explicitly said that I don't like Bush. I wouldnt' vote for him. Bush has spent and spent. He pushed the shitty Medicare Modernization Bill, which will ceate yet another governemnt spending program. That's why there's such a deficit and will continue to be one. It doesn't matter what the tax revenues are (when low, we don't cut spending, when high--like during the economic boom of Clinton's second term, we raise spending because of how great things are.)
Spending should be cut. Across the board. Numerous government programs should be ended because they have either outlived their usefulness or were never useful to begin with.
I'm not talking about taxes being raised or lowered, I'm talking about spending. Spending is the problem, not taxes. That's why I said, we don't have a deficit because we aren't taxing enough (and why that's not a valid contra-HSA argument) but because of spending.
And I really don't give a shit to hear yet another cunty anti-war anti-imperialism argument that you and Ken's Pen have vomited back ad nauseum for the last 3 years.