John Stossel: Insurance Makes Healthcare Far More Expensive
John Stossel makes the case that we should pay for own healthcare. What a shocking notion!...
John Stossel makes the case that we should pay for own healthcare. What a shocking notion!
John Stossel makes the case that we should pay for own healthcare. What a shocking notion!...
John Stossel makes the case that we should pay for own healthcare. What a shocking notion!
The easiest and correct way to reform health care is to A.) Get rid of the FDA’s ability to regulate drugs B.) Get rid of government support for HMO and PPO plans, provide tax incentives to companies that adopt plans like whole foods. C.) Have the supreme court declare this recently passed health care bill as unconstitutional.
@loopdawgg Fortunately no, I’ve never had to experience that. And your comparison makes sense. But comparing health care to grocery insurance, especially in the context he does, is plain stupidity. What he is saying is that because I have insurance I can just go and get a triple bypass, even if I don’t need it, cause someone else is flipping the bill. C’mon
Legalize freedom!
Americans are ignorant of basic economics, and this allows them to be
conned and suckered time after time. They foolishly believe in the promises
of self-serving politicians who are also either woefully ignorant or
cynically corrupt knowing that people will accept whatever is forced upon
them as long as it comes with some nice words to make them feel
better.
Nothing is free and gov’t is not here to help you. Only a pure free market
can reduce costs and increase quality.
@Swickity
Stossel I believe is on the right path but he is quite the demagogue. You need to be if you want good ratings and to remain on primetime.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I would take better care of myself if I didn’t have health insurance. I’d be more careful with what I do, what job I choose, what I eat, I’d probably go out and exercise more often too. Why? Because I’d have a reason to, I’d have nothing to fall on.
John Stossel is such a weiner. He’s been around for a decade or so preaching the gospel of greed. Fuck that.
Right here is suggesting that the people are the ones at fault, for “expecting something for nothing”. Fuck that, that is blaming the victim.
@loopdawgg
My tiny, meek, hardworking, incredibly intelligent, talented, and productive roommates have to use food stamps. They have to manage their money extremely carefully just to survive, just to bring in enough to HAVE food. And they often do go without food because they can’t afford it, even with the welfare.
So, you can drop your ignorant generalizations, they aren’t applicable or enlightening, they are self-gratifying platitudes.
Well hardly anyone is going to get healthcare now. What’s the point, when you can just take it out no questions asked when you get sick. No more waisting $5000 a year for me.
John Stossel is the love of my life.
@dodododa It’s like waiting for your house to burn down before getting fire insurance, haha. Total madness.
@PresidentRich Not really. Cancer lasts a long time. You can apply for insurance the day of your diagnosis and be accepted no questions asked. Or maybe people will just get the bare minimum insurance in case of emgergency, then get something better if they get a chronic problem. Either way, I don’t think the insurance company’s 2% profit margin is going to hold up. lol.
John Stossel is the best journalist out there. He is fair and listens to everybody’s side of the story. He presents every aspect of every situation which very easily allows people to decide what is right and wrong.
John Stossel for president. =D
milton friedman said this years ago
@libralssuck fuck off Stossel is the shit!
@tmoneyproduction Go blow a goat ya argumentative sack of shit ….nothing in my statement detracted from Stossel ya ignorant fuck ….do you even know who Milton Friedman is……dumb ass hippy moron….i think stoss is great, hes doing what we should all be doing …learning something new every day–you obviously cant grasp that kind of concept, Milt said that 3rd party healthcare was watered down socialized medicine and not economically viable, years ago- was my point skippy…
The thing to understand about this is that Stossel is being pretty objective here, he’s talking about a relatively simple economic concept called Moral Hazard. I’m sorry if the truth makes you sad.
everyone wants to talk about high cost of health coverage but noone seems to touch the high medical cost in this country due to govt regulations
Men like John Stossle make the world a better place.
Is Mr. Stossel suggesting that people need to go to the doctor as often as they need to eat? Or that a person’s food bill has the potential to reach $10,000/day?
He makes some reasonably salient points about altering the ‘fee-for-service’ approach in which the insured simply ‘orders up’ treatments in a budget-less format. But, as is his style, he oversimplifies while sounding reasonable.
Health insurance is, indeed, a necessary thing. Just ask a cancer patient.
@1776independent
I don’t think he’s so much against insurance than he is against forcing insurance companies to cover more things than necessary.
Pay into (potentially cheaper) insurance, so if you get a serious condition like cancer or a heart attack, you’re covered.
However if you have the sniffles, pay for that yourself. Without all the paper work a doctor has to do because of the constant insurance, going to the doctor would be cheaper in the first place.
41 idiots rejecting the truth as of now…
Guess the guy in the end forgot about the roads he drives on is payed for and maintained by city taxes?
But yeah what do you expect to come from a system that rewards greed?
John Stossel is the Leviathan
Yeh! Why buy flu medication, when I can buy HIV drugs? My insurance will be paying for it. Why have a mump shot, when I can have a by-pass surgery, it’s more expensive and my insurance will pay for it.