tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post114411924022539825..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: Is Gielow a RINO?Rick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144245923930038702006-04-05T09:05:00.000-05:002006-04-05T09:05:00.000-05:00OK.Let's start by publishing the prices of all the...OK.<BR/><BR/>Let's start by publishing the prices of all the major hospitals for all procedures.<BR/><BR/>See how Aurora fares then...Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144164781810903142006-04-04T10:33:00.000-05:002006-04-04T10:33:00.000-05:00Elliott is right (since he agrees with me!)and thi...Elliott is right (since he agrees with me!)and this is going to pose a challenge for conservatives. We are going to have to be for something other than the status quo and while HSAs can be part of that, they are not going to be the entire solution.<BR/><BR/>Keep in mind, its not just that employers want "out from under" (although they do), but that tying health insurance to one's employer creates market inefficiencies.<BR/><BR/>Here's another one: No employer wants to retain employees who are ready to retire. They may not perform so poorly that it will be easy to fire them, but they also won't be stars. Yet there are many people who must work to 65 for no reason other than health insurance. <BR/><BR/>We need to think about a private insurance scheme that addresses the flaws in the health care market and I fear there is no way to do that without some form of regulation like, for example, mandating that everyone buy a policv at age 21 and thereafter and forbidding the companies from risk underwriting so that they can't cherry pick insureds.<BR/><BR/>I don't know that Gielow has it right (I'm thinking he doesn't) but conservatives can't stand pat on this issue.Rick Esenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144164160288184672006-04-04T10:22:00.000-05:002006-04-04T10:22:00.000-05:00Businesses need to get out from under the healthca...Businesses need to get out from under the healthcare elephant.<BR/><BR/>My prediction is that business organizations will start pushing hard to shift the burden to government within the next ten years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144164080204976992006-04-04T10:21:00.000-05:002006-04-04T10:21:00.000-05:00Unless they pull a Canada, and make it against the...Unless they pull a Canada, and make it against the law to look elsewhere. Why do so many arrogantly think they can make failed experiments like socialism work? Why do they so often ignore the facts? Blinded by ideology, perhaps?Billiamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15489132492383133253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144162190223640072006-04-04T09:49:00.000-05:002006-04-04T09:49:00.000-05:00Funding it through a payrool tax or a tax on busin...Funding it through a payrool tax or a tax on business makes it in my eyes government-run health care, and there is nothing government does well other than national defense.<BR/><BR/>Turning the healthcare of Wisconsin residents over to the government would make me look for someplace else to live.The Badgerland Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04665954445867215793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144158279018536832006-04-04T08:44:00.000-05:002006-04-04T08:44:00.000-05:00Maybe.Employers have been trying to get out from u...Maybe.<BR/><BR/>Employers have been trying to get out from under health benefits for quite a while; but I suspect that the "aging workforce" argument is statistical legerdemain, insofar as the entire workforce is statistically stable.<BR/><BR/>Further, the proposal is rumored to have a ~10% payroll tax attached to it--so cui bono?<BR/><BR/>Finally, the interests of all employers AND employees will be furthered by publication of provider prices--now slowly being implemented.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-1144120041336540722006-04-03T22:07:00.000-05:002006-04-03T22:07:00.000-05:00according to the green supporters the answer is "n...according to the green supporters the answer is "no" because a democrat would be worseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com