Original Message: ----------------- From: Ronn! Blankenship [email protected] Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:27:28 -0500 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DeLong on health insurance reform
<br> >Some people fear that government-run health care will feature all the >cleanliness and maintenance standards of Walter Reed combined with the >prompt service for which the DMV is famous and the compassion of the IRS, >and want to know what guarantees there will be that it will be like the >things government does well instead of the things that make the news as >scandals or annoy and frustrate almost everyone who has to deal with them I understand that feeling. But, that's not what is being proposed. The public option is to have government run health care as an alternative. And, fortunately, we have a giant data base of folks who have government run health insurance: those on Medicare. My _Republican_ congressman stated that the overhead for private insurance paperwork is 20%, while for the government it's 5%. But, what about public satisfaction? We have a comparative survey at http://news.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-2/Survey-3A-Medicare-gets-higher- marks-from-enrollees-than-private-insurance-6883-1/ or http://tinyurl.com/mwm3db >From the other items featured, it does not look to be a polemic website. We see those on the public plan are more satisfied than those on employer sponsered plans. And, that doesn't even address those who can't get employer sponsered plans. Let me ask a question, and I honestly will respect your answer. Are you so opposed to the government insurance that you'll refuse Medicare and be willing to be untreated as an option? I know folks with health issues in their families who are consultants. They tell me that bare bones catastrophic insurance is about $40k/year. Is this better than Medicare? Right now, we seem to have taken the worst of socialism and capitalism to get the most expensive health care while getting poor measured results. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
