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What do opponents of health care reform mean by choice?
This is not a facetious question. I would like to know specifically what opponents of health care reform mean by wishing to preserve choice. This is not an invitation to explain (or rant!) why they think nationalized health care will stop choice, but how private health care provides them choice. If they care to also to explain how the present system offers choice for the 50 million who have no health care at all and how for those of us who do belong to HMOs have extremely limited choice as well, I’d appreciate it.
Cheers.
I’m happy to answer your question.
The “choice” that opponents refer to is the ability to choose which insurance carrier (and therefore which HMO, if applicable) you select to provide your coverage.
HR 3200 is an enemy of this choice because:
1. As President Obama reiterates, you may keep your carrier or keep your doctor. However, he does not reiterate that if you become dissatisfied with your provider, if you lose your job, if you change jobs, or if you move and have to change jobs, you must either go right to the government plan or pay an additional 2.5% in income tax. Additionally, those eligible for Medicare go right on Medicare. They lose the choice to decline.
2. Private health care provides choice in that citizens don’t even have to have insurance if they don’t want to. If HR 3200 passes, that will only be an option if you are willing and financially able to pay the additional 2.5% in income tax.
3. Some of the 50 million uninsured are uninsured because they are exercising their right to choose not to have insurance. Some rely on their automobile collision insurance as coverage and go on a wing and a prayer for the rest (I’m not kidding). As for the rest of the 50 million, there is not enough choice. Choice is limited by things like the inability for carriers to sell across state lines, the ban on certain types of insurance like catastrophic insurance in certain states, and both federal and state mandates (which drive up costs across the board, therefore limiting choice). None of these choice-limiting (and therefore cost-increasing) factors are addressed in the bill.
4. HMOs have to go. They limit choice and drive up price. End of story.
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