Because the insurance companies were the ones that artificially inflated the costs. You should do some actual research instead of making things up that look good from your perspective and assuming that everyone will believe you. That’s what Fox News does.

If Insurance companies were the whiny victims they’re made out to be by the right-wing punditocracy, they’d be returning more than 48% of the money we spend on premiums and they wouldn’t have a seemingly infinite advertising budget. Logic.

It’s all about whatever sounds good for their argument.

That is wrong.
The insurance companies are the end customers of services, therefore (via the economic laws of supply and demand) the insurance companies dictate the prices…

Case in point. I don’t carry health insurance. My doc charges me $126 dollars for a visit. When I had insurance, he charged $400 for the same visit… (and usually could only collect about $150).

If you let the market system work as it should, and take the insurance companies out of the equation, the price of services would go down… PROVEN FACT!

Because they take money out of the system. However, the medical equipment manufacturers are taking a huge share also. I can understand paying premiums for bleeding edge tech but don’t understand why many devices are not commodities by now.

Then why are we double every other rich country in health care costs — are technology is not much better — we actually have less doctors per capita — the only difference of any significances is the drug companies and their pattens and insurance

I haven’t heard anyone blame insurance companies for the cost of health care charged by providers. I have heard some blame insurance companies for increasing the cost of insurance well beyond the rate of inflation.

The problem is that there really aren’t any effective ways in which to combat the actual costs of health care charged by the provider. We might decrease the cost of prescription drugs by negotiating with Big Pharma and allowing Americans to buy drugs from Canada, for example but that’s about it.

There really isn’t any way to decrease the price charged by a doctor or hospital. Our system doesn’t allow for any sort of market forces (which you would think republicans would be fighting for). You can try to shop around for the best price but your insurance may not let you and you won’t really find much difference in prices between providers, that is, if they even give you a quote.

So that only leaves price controls. Since I know Libs aren’t in favor of price controls on health care maybe that means conservatives are in favor of them.

Just what in the world are you trying to do, start a riot or even worse inform
a liberal. My god do you have no sense of decency, let them stumble along
thinking they have it right, God forbid you ever strike a nerve with them, and
they should shake themselves back into reality, That could cause whip lash,.

Why do some people insist on politicizing the health-care issue? Are we to assume that Conservatives are sheep who pay whatever someone says is the correct price, nary a question in mind, while Liberals whine and bitch for no reason whatsoever? Is this the point of our intrepid poster? Or, is our intrepid poster simply suggesting that Conservatives are by nature one and the same, in a rather mindless sense, while Liberals are always wasting everyone’s precious time? My experience is that Conservatives complain just as much as do Liberals … but in different ways. Conservatives prefer incremental adjusts to the same mindset while Liberals are ready and willing to allow for opportunity, change, difference and possiblities. One group is exclusive and the other is inclusive. That said, it’s amazing to think that all Conservatives truly believe that the Medical Industry is anything beyond exactly that … an Industry that includes an extreme number of large groups made up of people who, in large part, earn considerably above the national median income. My direct experience is that we actually earn significantly above the median income … and I’m happy to have unknown peoples agreeing that it’s quite okay. Thanks!

I see 3 questions, and a 4th predicated on a “yes” to #3.

1) The high cost of health care was a PREDICTED outcome of liberal-demanded Democrat-written laws.
They ALWAYS blame others for the EXPECTED outcomes of their demands.

2) They don’t. More expensive health care OBVIOUSLY cuts into their revenue.

3) Evidently not.

because when truth and researchable facts come in contact with liberals they break out in a rash
and run of the cost of their heath care

also they are in bed with those that run of the cost .. the trial lawyers

why do health insurance companies even exist?

they contribute nothing to the delivery of health care to the sick.

therefore their existence is a luxury we can no longer afford.

period.

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