4 Responses to “Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance”

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   Jessie Carty September 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm

   its funny when my husband and i discuss the healthcare debate i find myself using car insurance (which i worked in) as an example of how you can make insurance affordable. *sigh*

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   sherry September 3rd, 2009 at 3:11 pm

   Do you think private-sector health insurance can be made affordable, Jessie?

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   Max September 4th, 2009 at 8:25 am

   LAWYERS.
   It seems that the ambulance chasers (Tort Reform) isn’t part of the equation, frivolous law suits certainly drives up costs to those that pay their insurance premiums. (Like Car Insurance)

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   sherry September 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

   I don’t know, Max. I’ve seen figures that say that frivolous law suits aren’t really what’s driving up the cost of malpractice insurance and I tend to view the ability to bring private suit as one way that the ordinary citizen can get justice. Look at what happened in the O.J. Simpson case — not that the two cases are necessarily comparable.It’s true that there are people who think a lawsuit is somehow free money, and it’s true that there are ambulance chasers, but I’d take some convincing before I wanted to adapt tort reform as a way to keep costs down.