Cantor: Private healthcare rationing better than government's

[Derechos]

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Tuesday that private healthcare plans ration care for profit but that consumers should be free to buy whatever coverage they can afford rather than depend on government rationing.

In remarks to the College of American Pathologists, Cantor warned that Democrats' healthcare reform law mandates benefits that are too generous and will bankrupt the country as the government ends up having to offer ever increasing subsidies. That can only lead to government rationing, he said.

"That doesn't mean those kinds of decisions aren't being made now by the private sector," Cantor added, "because they are."

The solution advanced by Republicans is to increase private-sector competition, by allowing health plans to sell their coverage across state lines, for example. Most experts say that's unlikely to significantly drive down America's record-high healthcare costs, however, and risks leaving in place the current problems of uninsured and underinsured patients that the healthcare reform law attempted to address in the first place.

Cantor appeared to go further than Republicans have in the past by acknowledging that not all patients are certain to get optimal healthcare under a system of private insurance.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/158979-cantor-private-healthcare-rationing-better-than-governments

[CurtEastPoint]

1. "buy whatever coverage they can afford" So Eric, tell us, asshole...

How do we do this and with what resources and what do we get?

[Angry Dragon]

2. Sounds like he is promoting republican death panels

quick call sarah and tell her we found the death panels and they are being promoted by her party

[ejpoeta]

3. somehow the idea that a private entity whose sole goal is to make profit

'rations' care based on that motive of profit as being better than someone who does it based on no personal motive..... perhaps if we could cut their pay to $40k a year.... because that is living high on the hog!! they seem to think so for teachers and regular folks... and then give them the same 'great' health insurance the rest of us enjoy... and then make them pay for their own crap like the rest of us do..... then tell me how great all that 'rationing' is.

[BuelahWitch]

4. Yours and your family's first, Mr. Cantor

If you're so in favor of it why don't you drop your cushy gov't healthcare and ration your own?

[Aerows]

5. Amen!

Stop asking Americans to do the very thing he WON'T do.

[KT2000]

6. Anointing the private death panel

He has just elevated the death decisions by private companies as some kind of sacred action because it makes money.
This is the right wing plan for healthcare all along - for the wealthy.
Sick - just sick.