Re: [A-List] Re: A-List digest, Vol 1 #342 - 10 msgs

["Annewilliamson" <Annewilliamson@xxxxxxx>]

Medical insurance was once a private contract, which could be cancelled and
replaced if the client so chose from those firms competing for the client's
business, which was properly the source of their profits and therefore their
survival.  Consequently, the insurance companies worked to get clients by
providing superior service.  The state's involvement in the insurance
industry has corrupted the industry, and compromised the private contract to
the transacting of insurance.  And, BTW, the insurance companies are largely
a "client" of the RNC - and it is Republicans who have led the charge to
guarantee those clients' their business through regulations and indirect
public subsidies.

And why on earth would anyone hand their medical care over to an insurance
company?  Medical insurance is reimbursement for costs, a private contract,
not responsibility for treatment -- that's where the state got involved, and
empowered the insurance companies to make decisions about treatment since
regulation made them liable for every stitch and every pill.  This problem
is but one aspect of the consequences of the state involving itself in
private contracts for the "public good."  Ha, ha - now there's a non
sequitur and an oxymoron!

Far better in today's Big Brother world to purchase catastrophe insurance
only (very low premiums), save your money, take care of yourself, and be in
a position to decide your own treatment if and when necessary.  Today, I
agree, neither the state nor the state-regulated/subsidized/controlled
insurance companies are anyone's "friend."

Anne

----- Original Message -----
From: <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] Re: A-List digest, Vol 1 #342 - 10 msgs


>
> > When you hand over medical care to the state,
> > you make yourself
> > the property of the state.
>
> So if you hand over medical care to an insurance company, do you become
the
> property of the insurance company?
>
> Your libertarian non sequiturs are showing again, Anne.
>
>