Limbaugh: "47 million" people do not want health insurance

Would you force the insurance companies to accept these vouchers for people with pre-existing conditions?

That health insurance is fantastic stuff until you get sick and become a cost. Insurance companies are at cross purposes with healthcare goals of the population it is supposed to serve. The more money the insurance providers spend to get you better, the more diminished their profits are (which is obviously unacceptable to them).

It is time we start to look at healthcare insurance as a public service like police, fire and defense. The so-called "free market" (which has been anything, but free) has failed miserably to achieve anything close to the best system of healthcare.

If you disagree, tell me a free market solution that will add the rest of the population to healthcare insurance AND lower insurance administration costs from 30% of overall healthcare spending to 5% (which is what most nations spend while covering their entire populations). I am all ears.

This guy is 22 and could be given a voucher for @$6500 to find his own health insurance

It wouldn't be enough. There's no insurance you can get for $500 a month. It's just like the school voucher BS.

Yep, let him fire up that monstrous SUV, between the environmental damage from pollution and low fuel mileage and the increased tendency to roll over in a crash, his family will be SO much safer...and let's not forget that SUV drivers tend to be less secure as drivers and make riskier choices while driving. Please don't make the assumption that my daughter is uninsured because she opposes "socialized medicine," she would tell you what she saw in Asia and wonder out loud how you could be so dumb as to oppose it.

That's a great argument and a dream scenario except that it presumes that the insurance company acts in good faith.

According to the American Journal of Medicine
25% of patients have their insurance canceled immediately when a catastrophic event occurs.
Another 25% have their insurance canceled within a year.

The Health Insurance industry is corrupt. They make profits by denying care and letting their customers die... I'm not using scare tactics it's simply the truth.

You have far too much faith in the insurance industry. Where it comes from, I have no idea. Insurers have proven themselves over and over again to be profit driven, not patient driven. That's not going to change by giving people vouchers.

LOl..typical winger arguement. don't address the issue, just stick to the talking points....stick to the talking points....stick to the talking points....

well done

Try Wikipedia for adverse selection. Of course there are a lot of young people who believe they don't need health insurance - and many won't have the need for it if they have it. Let the healthiest remove themselves from the pool of insureds and the average loss grows and rates have to be raised. At the higher rate there are more people who believe - probably correctly so - that they can go without insurance at the higher price. They remove themselves from the pool or are forced out and the average payout increases and rates have to be raised again. More people are forced out of the market, many of them healthy folks who make few claims. Eventually the pool of insureds becomes the least healthy among us and the rates are prohibitive for everyone else. Again, it's called adverse selection.

Imagine if .......

Take all the legal residents of the US, @230 million. divide that by what the price tag for socialized medicine @1.5 trillion+ and you come up with $6500 and change for everybody. This includes all medicaid and medicare then too, which will overwhelm the county in debt very soon.

Make both private and public, if you insist, insurance companies compete for that price. Have the extra be allowed to be put into an HSA to accure money to cover co-pays or special procedures. Make the insurance companies accept both portability and previous conditions. Allow for younger people to purchase cheaper insurance to increase their HSA.

People will become very aware of the cost and choose care judiciously. Make certain everyone has at least a catastrophic coverage policy too.

Since we're making stuff up, Rush, I suppose there are 100 million people who don't want clean drinking water, either.

Wrong. Try again.

"He is one of these 47 million who doesn't want it"

nice apology...

Did you watch the whole clip? he says it at the end.

" he's one of these 47 million who doesn't wanna buy health insurance."

what does that quote mean to you?

Again, I believe in the ability of the individual to choose what's best for himself, is what is also great for others. A voucher system gives people the power, takes the burden off of employers and will make health insurance available to every legal resident and citizen of the country.

The fallacy of socialized care is that all of a sudden, everyone will get every treatment their heart desires, from the simple to the severe. The problem will be that the government will make the choices for us. If that man's wife becomes ill and facing mounting medical costs, the government will simply look to a formula that considers age, seriousness of illness, chance for recovery and make a decision on that basis. It won't improve anything but the overall cost of medical care by limiting access. Today, if that man wanted the expensive care he could seek it even if it cost heavily financially, bringing bankruptcy but the end result would be a chance for her to get the treatments to extend her life.

I think with the purchasing power of the citizenry, every insurance copy will be motivated to please the consumer, especially if portability and pre-conditions are dealt with legislatively.