What kind of health insurance system would you favor?

[BurtWorm]

[Oregone]

1. What benefit(s) does the capitalistic model bring to the insurance industry?

What major (positive) changes and innovations in insurance products have come about in the last century, or two even. What were the costs of these advances? How does competition enhance services of insurance providers?

[lamp_shade]

2. I don't care as long as there's a public option.

[mecherosegarden]

3. Same here . N/T

[Oregone]

5. Then you are falling for the smoke and mirrors

If you will take *any* "public option", it demonstrates your willingness to fuck yourself over for any idea that sounds good. An undefined, ambiguous notion is a shitty litmus test for a health care system.

[Ms. Toad]

16. So...if Congress gives us a public option

that can deny applicants coverage
that costs over $1000 a month
that is not subsidized for low income people
that doesn't cover pre-existing conditions
that is the only place in each state that accepts the "uninsurable" (and because of this has premiums triple or more those of private insurance)

you'll still be happy?

Public option, alone, does not guarantee that any of the above will not happen (and in fact most of the above could happen and still satisfy what Dean and Obama have called for) - all a public option requires is that there be a publicly administered health care plan.

[Better Believe It]

4. K & R

[hunter]

6. Single Payer.

Other than that I'd like to see a few of the most evil insurance company executives bankrupted. Take away their money, their homes, their cars, their pharmaceuticals, their fancy clothes, burn all their identification, put them in an unmarked van, and drop them off at skid row.

"You were a wealthy insurance company executive??? Yeah, right bro. You still can't sleep here, and if I catch you pissing in my lot I'll beat the crap out of you. Hear me?"

[slipslidingaway]

7. SPHC - everyone has a vested interest in the best system...

they do not want the public to be united against the HC corporations whose only product is to skim profits.

[JimWis]

8. Single payer.

[MercutioATC]

9. Other: Expand FEHBP

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

No exemption for pre-existing conditions and it preserves customer choice.

[mainegreen]

10. One that reduces billing complexity, bureaucracy, and eliminates exclusions and groups.

One that prevents plans from being constrained by state borders but also allows states to maintain a say over regulations in their state.

Anything else wont fix the problem.

[Kaleva]

11. Voted "don't know". Not informed enough to make a decision

[TahitiNut]

12. What I have now is Medicare. I'd like everyone to have it ...

... and have it cover dental and mental health care as well.

:shrug:

[The2ndWheel]

13. Would you favor?

That's a little too individualistic. It's about what we should favor. What kind of health insurance system should we favor? You have to get people thinking in public terms. You can't ask someone what do you think we should do. You have to ask them what should we do. There can't be an opt-out in the question. That they would be part of the system has to be a given.

[hootinholler]

14. I want the kind that isn't INSURANCE!

Which could be single payer, but, might not be.

Not for profit health care is the only way to go.

-Hoot

[Hepburn]

15. +1...n/t

[GeorgeGist]

17. I favor a non-profit healthcare system.