[quote=tailgater]indefensible. That's why.

if the author is correct (you didn't even read it did you?) then the government is already in for half the 3 trillion. So if you like the way things are, you already like the Big Combination public/private.

I was never involved in our family coverage so have no historical understanding of health care insurance. But now I'm on medicare so I at least open the mail. So far it all looks very smooth and understandable to me...but my personal situation is probably not very complicated.

what is the general opinion of how well they are running their half? Medicare, CHIPS or whatever the other programs are?

I’m pretty sure private insurance will fix things if we just keep letting them.

I wonder how $ for healthcare vs $ for admin costs compare. How do most insurance companies determine coverage for procedures.... especially new ones.

yeah, I don't know the best answers so I'm listening, and I'm trying to keep it clear I am not a spokesperson for universal.

But I do think the worst possible insurance option is if we pay double per person than the rest of the industrialized world with the lowest life expectancy as a result...and several corporations making billions of profit.

Is that more financially efficient than medicare? I don't know the numbers. So I ask. Others assume it is.

If just saying old chestnuts like the gov is inept..that's just more dogma without showing how bad they are specifically in the 1.5 trillion cut of this they manage.

Maybe this is the area in which they do well...I'm asking.

pretty sure they won't drop me if I get a terminal illness...maybe I'm wrong about that.

The federal government will fix it.

by promoting non-profit health insurance and healthcare through incentives...

One possible plus for private insurance is you most likely know exactly what it is costing you. Unfortunately in most cases you don't know what your insurance is worth until you need it.

stop making sense.

Bet your bottom dollar

couldn't we have both options?

I'll credit you with that...

Yeah. That's what they'll do.