John Stossel: Insurance Makes Healthcare Far More Expensive - Video

excellent reporting by John Stossel

and thanks for posting!

I've been talking this same argument for years and posting often on the DP about getting the MIDDLEMEN OUT of healthcare!! Good job John Stossel on showing the common sense answer to this issue that many people just can't seem to understand....including the socialists at the top screaming for socialized/nationalized healthcare.

About the only thing I wish he had included is that the many thousands of salaries in the insurance industry siphon off monies that would normally go to paying our doctors directly and cause the costs to go UP, UP and UP. The extra paper pushers at the doctor's offices - more salaries that the doctor has to pay - keep the costs high too. That's why we can't afford it any more.....

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom." Patrick Henry

Its a fact jack...

overhead cost average is lower than the figures offered to me by various provider operations. I don't know where that average figure came from or exactly what additional costs it takes into consideration, but I've yet to encounter a healthcare provider organization that has overhead costs that low. Most I've worked with report costs of over 1/3, when all additional personnel, office space, additional equipment and compliance costs are considered. And that's really just one aspect of what the video mentioned.
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they don't know the price the Insurance Co. sets that, they know not the value of their work.

Against this mans store for speaking out.

The only people I can think of that should be between me and my Dr is a Receptionist and a Nurse.
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A news report the focuses on the problem.........Give us more John Stossel.

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..which goes to the heart of high health care costs...

Joe Ureneck

the free market is the only market.

...and the "Food Insurance" analogy is so simple, even a caveman could figure it out...!
...I know this caveman is using it next time healthcare is in the conversation...
...sweet...

-say the same thing, but Government involvement would just compound the problem.
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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'" Ronald Reagan

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

-Alexis de Tocqueville

The paperwork, the bureaucracy, the administration costs.
Insurance companies ARE a microcosm of what National Healthcare would become. Probably worse, because Insurance companies are private companies, the employees are expected to perform at some level of efficiency. Not as much with Government employees.
It's a pretty good argument to say "if you think it's bad now, wait until Uncle Sam is your provider.

Double Bump! However, in addition to John Stossel's excellent points, we need to ask and demand the answer to the question of where does it say in the Constitution that Congress has ANY right within Article one Section eight to promote government control of our individual health care? Please contact your congressional rep ASAP and demand, in writing, an answer to this important question!

What we generally have now is not insurance. It's a pre-paid health care card. When it becomes a shared credit card, watch out!

We need to concentrate much more on this very important yet logical message of getting rid of the middleman.

Send this video to all of your friends. It's very important that people understand this simple concept.

thanks for sharing it. i think i will forward on to my family.

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