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It could happen for health care and I have done some crude figures on how much it would cost.

OK. Since you responded. Here's what I wanted to post in the healthcare section but screwed it up and stuck it in this heading.

Why doesn't the likes of John Edwards and Michael Moore and such just start a competing healthcare insurance company and take all the business. Lower the profit margins and drive everybody else out of business.

It wouldnt be able to support itself, unless it was getting massive contributions as a private charity.

Insurance isnt what you need to look at. Over Regulation and beauracracy from the Federal branch is why Healthcare is so damned costly. Costs would go down to affordable prices if actual competition was allowed, and pharmaceuticals where not assininely regulated.


I could go on into the corruption of the FDA, but you get my point.

These statements are idiotic. Why don't we just not have a government at all? Nooooo, Cigarettes aren't bad for you. Profit motivated companies only do things with the consumers best interests in mind.

Wake up and smell the pollution.

SATV

Do you know anything about how insurance works?

Its risk versus use. They take in more premiums money than they put out and its based on sheer numbers.

If a company has 1.5 million insured they know they will make a good bit more money in premiums than they will have to put out in health care. This is a simplistic explanation , but for the purposes of this thread it will do.

Now do you want to tell me any reason the American people could not do this?

And as a bonus we'd have a large group and premiums should go down for everybody. Profits can be put back into the program for research and things we are lacking. Like having enough flu vaccine in case of a out break so millions of Americans don't die.

The problem with having a stock pile of medications, is the shelf life of these products.

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He has a small private practice and still sees a few of us. He says that the expiration dates on medicine are normally much longer than on the label. My daughter a pharmacist agrees . Doc gives his patient out of date drugs all the time for a fraction of the cost of in date ones.

My daughter brings home what she is allowed that has went out of date and we give it to local animal shelters .

They have much longer shelf lives than they want us to know , so they can sell more.

Like the arguements over cigarettes, its all a smokescreen. The feds want to hoop and holler about looking out for our health, yet they refuse to just totally destroy tobacco and all associated with it. Ever wonder why??

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>>>They couldn't compete because their health plan (unlike the private insurers) would have to include non-healthy people. We'll see how competitive they get when the private insurers are forced to accept people with pre-existing conditions. My guess is that there will be all sorts of room for non-profit insurers when that happens.