Comments on: Nationalization Would Be Good for Our Health

By: Phil Mattera

Phil Mattera — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:53:14 +0000

I would love to see all profit ultimately taken out of healthcare, but for now I would settle for getting rid of the parasitic health insurers.

By: CounterCorp

CounterCorp — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:26:22 +0000

Great proposal Phil! The myth of corporate efficiency is one of those shibboleths perpetuated by Corporate America and their vast squad of cheerleaders that is absolutely not substantiated by even the most cursory inspection of corporate patterns and practices.

One distinction that it is important to emphasize: Single-payer is not anywhere near the same as national healthcare (which we would support). It is merely the government acting as the clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of payments for health insurance and care.

As you undoubtedly know, under single-payer the healthCARE system — hospitals, doctors, etc — would remain the same; the government would merely replace the health INSURANCE companies that you rightly target as wasteful, inefficient, greedy, and corrupt.

By: Jack Lohman

Jack Lohman — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:31:53 +0000

As well, see Medicare-for-all is best corporate bailout… It would save every US corporation $6000 per employee per year, but that's exactly what the insurance industry doesn't want.