Reply #8: Your comment "Nothing comes free...sorry" is condescending.....

[Faryn Balyncd]

It's a lot easier to pretend to be arguing against a straw man free-loader who you may wish to portray as desiring "free healthcare".




The reality is that it is the coddled insurance mafia that is free-loading - - and at the expense of patients, medical providers, taxpayers, and the productive industries that comprise our American entrepreneurial and industrial economic base.

The reality is that the same insurance industry that often limits its payments to physicians to the Medicare rate, has fought for (& already achieved) concessions in the Kennedy bill in which the "public option" program will need to pay 10% more than the Medicare rate. Industry lobbyists continues their efforts to castrate, and make economically non-viable, any such "public option".

The insurance industry, while claiming to represent "competition", in reality is attemtping, as usual, to avoid competition.

This is the same industry whose "competition" has created a perverse system of fantasy "regular rates" in which individuals who HAVE BEEN DENIED INSURANCE, are now billed phony inflated "full pay" rates 250-600% higher than insurance companies pay.





But it's much easier to pretend that the advocates of a public healthcare plan are freeloaders who want something that "comes free" (as you phrased it), than to deal with the difficult reality that we tackle the inflated "administrative" cut taken by the insurance industry for their mismanagement, in order to have the resources to apply to actual health-care.

And it's much easier pretend to mount defenses against those portrayed as wanting something that "comes free", than to objectively discuss these healthcare realities with healthcare PROVIDERS who support a Single Payer Medicare-for-All system (such as Physicians for a National Healthcare Plan, and the California Nurses Association), and those who support a viable, affordable public option.




As a physician who has practiced medicine for several decades, and supported my family through my profits, I find your comment "Nothing comes free...sorry", insulting.

Your implication that those of us who support Single Payer Medicare-for-All, or a public option system in which younger Americans have the option to buy-in to a Medicare-styled public option, are wanting healthcare to "come free" is a cheap, condescending, and incorrect implication.