I heard yesterday, even tho insurance companies have bemoaned the cost of ACA, they are making record profits.....

So, I thought, WTF?????

I came up with this question?

Why do we, and I think Bot already mentioned this, but I didn't grasp it, the gravity of it at the moment.....

PROFIT off of medicine and healthcare?

Yes, I know programs exist like not for profit hospitals, etc, but this should be the norm.

Why do these BIG companies need to make a profit off of illness, etc?

How about co-opts, where folks can pool their money like big corporations, unions, etc, and get cheaper rates?

Why is a single person more expensive to cover?

It seems I am migrating to the thought of, I guess, a single payer.....
Take private companies that make $$$$$$$ out of this equation.
Insurance is based on liability, like in a car, you hope you don't need it.
Healthcare ALL of us WILL need it......
We don't need to prop up a GIANT industry off of that burden too, that is EXTORTION  

Tell me where I'm wrong?

Please don't tell me it will curb new technology......
Man is too VAIN, he wants to live forever.
That argument is like a dope pusher telling you the drug won't hook you.

   

I am thinking the whole insurance industry is just one BIG friggin Vegas gambling game, LEGALIZED.

I think you view things through your own perceptions.
I know the government has a lousy track record, however, we still hold TRUMP ( pun intended ) as we can vote, if we can unite together on that fact, and fire those elected who only feather their own beds and become puppets to the forces in DC, etc.

We will never attain that if we assign, as you did to me, a name with connotations.
Let's debate in merit, and try new ideas, admit failures, move on.

You should know how devious and coy Satan is, do not dance to his tune thinking his way is true because of arguments in the flesh.

Tell me where I'm wrong?

Please don't tell me it will curb new technology......

It will curb new technology. That's an unfortunate reality. Don't believe me? Tell me what new developments are produced from research done and with a singular market directed towards VA hospitals? How many new and useful drugs are being developed in Syria nowdays? Venezuela? Hell, even Russia?.................crickets.

Profit drives technology. Profit saves lives.

In 1961, my twin brother died of a staph infection. In 1987, my 1 year old son contracted a strain of meningitis, spent a few days in an isolation room and came out of everything just fine. Had I and my brother been born in 1987, he'd be alive today.

The difference between 1961 and 1987 was technological advancements by companies seeking profits. That's the reality. Take that away, and we all lose.

Don't be envious of the rich. Live your own life. Enact logical controls that prevent fraud etc, but don't be so foolish as to think you can put roadblocks up to profits and yet expect the same level of the pursuit of technology gains.

Healthcare in the US is a difficult beast to figure out, but don't bite off your nose to spite your face.

You're comparing us the Syria, Venezuela?...

No I'm not comparing us to them! How obtuse are you?! I just hate it when people take examples out of context to deflect. Did I say the US is just like Syria? Did I? No. Don't be an idiot.

The US is the marketplace where those innovations are being targeted because its where the money is made. We "subsidize" the industry and everyone else benefits which I think is great. Without that, technological advancements slows. That's a simple, logical fact.

That's a cheap way to pretend you're the idiot.

 I agree that we would have much less advancement in medical care if it was non-profit.

 These Large-Pharma companies can lose millions in investment on a drug if it cant pass clinical trials.  If they can't re-make that lost money then its just another bankrupt company putting some of the leading minds in the industry out on the job search again.

 If I give a hundred thousand to a cancer research group they have exactly that to work with, but if they are allowed to invest that money they will have more than I donated to fund research.

 The problem is corruption, not the method.

Serowbot wrote on 07/20/17 at 06:15:16:



Fewer rights, less free speech, no guns, outright socialism, hey, it is only a short plane ride away.....  

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