| xuron |
06-18-2007 09:02 PM |
incentives
IMO there is too much corruption and the incentive structure is out of whack. The insurance companies are trying to obtain more profit at the expense of social morality.
I think the government should NOT socialize medacine, BUT change the incentives.
In other words. take the strength of the free market to make people healthier.
We all know its cheaper to have preventitive medicine then intervention at hospitals..
so why can't the insurance companies start making people be healthy to obtain coverage?
1) You have to exercise
2) You can't eat cheesy poofs and drink soda all day and expect to get unlimited coverage. even the government(i.e. taxpayers) would lose money keeping these people alive.
3) Stop people from smoking and other proven things that kill you slowly over time.
4) What about making people going to the gym and getting credit for it. The healthier you are, the cheaper your coverage is. Heck, make it competitive..
that is enough for health insurance companies to offer more affordable rates, I think the incentives are just cluster fucked because people LOVE to look at the WHAT instead of WHY...
Also, after seeing the film. I agree that it was good, but was overly emotional (As usual) and didn't see the bigger picture.
OUR CULTURE is shit, we eat like shit, we have no unity, we have shitty leaders, corrupt politicians, should I go on....?
Our family unit died a long time ago, everyone should look at 1913 as an important year. The creation of the federal reserve. Thats how our money was inflated to almost zero (almost there, good job Fed...).
Our global competitiveness is zero, we export our worthless dollars in exchange for items of real value.. I really feel if people had any fucking economic sense this wouldn't be so suprising..
One thing I did like in his film was when he talked about how the french protested alot. That is one thing we need here. people getting off their fat complacent asses and doing something, even if its stupid or misguided...
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