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Health Plan not yet right!Any USA health plan that depends upon scores of Insurance companies to compete for members from all over the country is doomed to fail. Any such plan that depends upon the very wealthy to support it by limiting just how much insurance they can buy (or charging them a high premium--or their company--to do so is also doomed. Any such plan that charges wealthy workers or non-workers who are wealthy extra premiums for their social security is doomed. Sane percentage as everyone else but on the total is OK, but not a higher percentage. Any such plan that pays doctors and hospital less than they currently get from social security and Medicaid, but yet try to charge insurance companies twice as much for the same procedure is doomed to fail. (Especially scores of insurance companies competing for members). Some of this will be fixed in the Senate/House Conference but not all. There is great waste in the current medical industry--in labor and charges, but there are better ways to balance it than just to quit paying the same thing over and over and wait for the fallout. Prices are fixed by doctors, prices are fixed by hospitals, and prices are fixed by insurance companies. It is impossible it seems to further negotiate changes needed right now. (To the current bill in the Senate). Bonkers's blog | login to post comments![]() |