Have you read about this? Blue Cross / Blue Shield mounted an anti-reform campaign in North Carolina that seems to have backfired.
The other big argument against health-care reform, which I did not mention yesterday and which Blue Cross used in its campaign, is that the government will undercut private insurers so much that it will drive them out of business, leaving us with only one provider in this country.
It sounds logical. We've all seen how the U.S. Postal Service drove UPS and Fed Ex out of business.
Oh wait, that didn't happen, did it? Instead, the various shipping options, including the one run by the government, have made each other more competitive, so that we now have things like U.S. Priority Mail, a relatively recent development. That's how competition is supposed to work. Why shouldn't the same thing happen with healthcare?
Just think about it.
P.S. If you want some more background to the Blue Cross campaign, go to Wormwood's Doxy's post here.
9 comments:
You're absolutely right!
I couldn't agree more!
I really don't understand why so many are opposed to this. It needs to happen.
As a resident of North Carolina, and a BCBSNC customer, I was furious!
I blogged it here and here.
I am so tired of the misleading ads and the whining from the insurance industry. They need some competition!
I enrolled Mom in Humana for Medicare Part D. The premium the first year was $6.00. It jumped to $27.00 the second year. They were next to impossible to get ahold of if you had a billing question, esp. about overpayment. (They charged her meds to my credit card after I asked them not to, AND cashed the check, too.) Eventually I got a refund, but about a year and half later!
I'm so glad to see this post and yesterday's as well. (Tried to leave a comment but blogger was wonky.) You've said so eloquently what I feel.
Health care has been a huge expense for us in the past so we talk about it frequently in our home. Even my 13 y.o. daughter gets the Post Office/Fed Ex analogy... we've also made the comparison between police/private security and firefighters/911. Could you imagine if you called because your house was on fire and they asked you to hold while they verified your insurance?
Even though I'm swimming against my Republican stream, I am applauding the Dems for actually DOING something about the health care debacle. Insurance companies are out of control. My hubby lost his because he got terribly sick, and couldn't work, and since the insurance is tied to work, it was gone. When he got it back, he had a $10,000 a year deductible - now they've canceled that, because they could pay the insurance or the payroll. The govt. (i.e. the taxpayer) already pays a fortune for the uninsured; the people with reliable insurance either have VA or Medicare. In other words, government insurance. As for private insurance, you pay a fortune, then when you get sick, they either won't cover it at all or they charge you a fortune anyway. I could go on and on - maybe I should write a post about it too! Thanks, Ruth.
I wrote a post, on Associated Content. You can find it here
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2372508/health_care_reform_should_really_be.html?cat=5
I too am tired of the misleading information going out that is mainly affecting our senior citizens. Something drastic needs to happen in the private health care sector. They have way too much power.
Great analogy. Just goes to show how the public option would help, not hinder, health care reform.
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