Please. This is not a case where someone was backed into a corner and forced to make these cuts. Covering those transplants in Arizona would require a miniscule amount of money compared to other expenditures. Arizona has been the recipient of a great deal of stimulus dollars that could easily have paid for these transplants.
But gee, they didn't. What a surprise. And yet, you want to trust government even more with this track record? If they could have done it so easily whey didn't they? Where is the evidence government cares so much for saving lives? Seems to me they are worried more about the state budget, their bottom line, power, and votes. The only people who really give a damn about health care are health care professionals working in the industry and their patients/customers. Insurance companies are in the business of selling insurance. Politicians are in the business of politics. Neither of them are in the business of saving lives. They are both middle men. So easy for them to make sweeping decisions like this because they are not directly effected. Upper class politicians get some of the best health care benefits in the country, while the working middle class pay for them through the nose. The rules, of course, will never apply to them.
The governor of Hawaii recently rescinded the Medicaid coverage of low income people in line for badly needed transplants? When did this happen?
No, they have been making (or were attempting to make) health care cuts. If you google Hawaii and health care cuts, you can probably find some news articles.
Are private insurance companies stepping up to the plate for those Arizona transplant patients?
If they were allowed unrestricted access to the free market, I bet you would see some competition popping up among them. Eventually they would start competing over rates, and offering deals to set themselves apart. Paying customers would flock away from those offering crap, and towards those offering the better services...instead of being limited in choosing the lesser of 2 or 3 evils in their state. There would need to be a lot of deregulation for this to happen, though, and it wouldn't happen over night. But it would happen. That would be step 1.
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But gee, they didn't. What a surprise. And yet, you want to trust government even more with this track record? If they could have done it so easily whey didn't they? Where is the evidence government cares so much for saving lives? Seems to me they are worried more about the state budget, their bottom line, power, and votes. The only people who really give a damn about health care are health care professionals working in the industry and their patients/customers. Insurance companies are in the business of selling insurance. Politicians are in the business of politics. Neither of them are in the business of saving lives. They are both middle men. So easy for them to make sweeping decisions like this because they are not directly effected. Upper class politicians get some of the best health care benefits in the country, while the working middle class pay for them through the nose. The rules, of course, will never apply to them.
The governor of Hawaii recently rescinded the Medicaid coverage of low income people in line for badly needed transplants? When did this happen?
No, they have been making (or were attempting to make) health care cuts. If you google Hawaii and health care cuts, you can probably find some news articles.
Are private insurance companies stepping up to the plate for those Arizona transplant patients?
If they were allowed unrestricted access to the free market, I bet you would see some competition popping up among them. Eventually they would start competing over rates, and offering deals to set themselves apart. Paying customers would flock away from those offering crap, and towards those offering the better services...instead of being limited in choosing the lesser of 2 or 3 evils in their state. There would need to be a lot of deregulation for this to happen, though, and it wouldn't happen over night. But it would happen. That would be step 1.