Greed, pay-offs, excessive profits and many other elements have been talked about as some of the resistance to passing the Healthcare Bill. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists 14,500,000 people working in healthcare in the US. These people fear that, since most people's care is paid for by insurance, they could be not only out of jobs, less likely, than that they can be out of pensions if their insurance companies go bust.
The fear of losing a job, losing insurance, or losing one's pension or retirement is a very serious fear. The non-profit insurance companies are the ones with the greatest fear as they are in the red, unlike the for-profit companies who make billions in profit.Yet I have only heard it brought up, not in the media, but from employees of the non-profits. The worst fears have already.happened. People hang onto what they have for fear that, if they don't, it won't be there for them when they need it...little realizing that is the great cry of the many for whom it ceased to be there due lack of job, money, pre-existing condition, or other numerous loopholes the insurance companies use to keep the money sent them as profit rather than paid out for the health of the subscriber. Even if the bill passes, the public will not see change for a few years. At the rate the government moves, most of us will be dead of old age by the time we see implementation.
There are many interesting notions on the public table that never make it to the politicians. I don't know who Mark Cuban is, but his blog has an interesting proposition. Click here A single payer system would ultimately work well as it does in other countries but it would take years in the US to find jobs for the thousands who work for the for-profits or to help merger those employees with a government run agency.
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