Comments on: Is it really fare to expect healthy people pay for everyone else’s health expenses? http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm Pet Insurance | Find The Best Pet Health Insurance Plans And Vet Insurance. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:13:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mark http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18356 mark Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18356 Yes Is it fair for non drivers to pay for the nations highways. Is it fair for people in one part of the country to pay for natural disasters in another part of the country Is it fair for single people without children to pay for education for others Yes

Is it fair for non drivers to pay for the nations highways.

Is it fair for people in one part of the country to pay for natural disasters in another part of the country

Is it fair for single people without children to pay for education for others

]]> By: Goldenrae9 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18357 Goldenrae9 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18357 We pay for people who aren't insured all ready. Lost wages and SSI are two examples off of the top of my head. We pay for people who aren’t insured all ready. Lost wages and SSI are two examples off of the top of my head.

]]> By: Tracey http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18358 Tracey Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18358 Nobody is healthy forever. One of these days, you will be old and infirm in a nursing home and your assets will have run out, and your care will be picked up by the taxes of the younger generation. What goes around comes around. Nobody is healthy forever. One of these days, you will be old and infirm in a nursing home and your assets will have run out, and your care will be picked up by the taxes of the younger generation. What goes around comes around.

]]> By: Mr Lizard http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18359 Mr Lizard Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18359 How does your dog eat now? Liquids? How does your dog eat now? Liquids?

]]> By: Steve http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18360 Steve Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18360 Usually healthy people choose to have a restricted health policy that costs less. So they do help pay these additional costs, but pay less than the people that have a more expansive policy. It is how it has always been, the insurance company adds the expenses to everyones policy, just depends on what policy they choose. Usually healthy people choose to have a restricted health policy that costs less. So they do help pay these additional costs, but pay less than the people that have a more expansive policy. It is how it has always been, the insurance company adds the expenses to everyones policy, just depends on what policy they choose.

]]> By: Hispanophile http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18361 Hispanophile Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18361 The entire rationale (justification) for insurance is that those who don't need it at a given moment -- for example, the young who have no call for arthritis medication -- pay into a fund that is then tapped by those who do need it. Auto insurance is a good case in point: you pay all those years and, if you're lucky, never have an accident. But if you do suffer a collision, others pay for the costs of repair just as you had done during the time you were accident-free. Medical insurance, which in the case of Medicare is paid through taxation, operates under the same principle. Some people choose to be "self-insured"; that is, rather than pay insurance premiums they keep a certain amount of money in reserve in case of necessity. While this may work for, say, dental care if you have sound teeth, it's not advisable for hospitalization given the ever-rising cost of medical care... The entire rationale (justification) for insurance is that those who don’t need it at a given moment — for example, the young who have no call for arthritis medication — pay into a fund that is then tapped by those who do need it. Auto insurance is a good case in point: you pay all those years and, if you’re lucky, never have an accident. But if you do suffer a collision, others pay for the costs of repair just as you had done during the time you were accident-free. Medical insurance, which in the case of Medicare is paid through taxation, operates under the same principle. Some people choose to be "self-insured"; that is, rather than pay insurance premiums they keep a certain amount of money in reserve in case of necessity. While this may work for, say, dental care if you have sound teeth, it’s not advisable for hospitalization given the ever-rising cost of medical care…

]]> By: david l http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18362 david l Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18362 Ask the Canadians, British, French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, and all the other Europeans. They all have had working public health systems for decades without becoming bankrupted socialist states, as the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies suggested. Further, it costs less to do it the public way, since the profit element is removed. It costs us all less. With the elimination of the insurance tricksters the bogus denials will be gone, as well, and the vast majority of us will get treatment in time for it to work. This is not different than using tax dollars to set up a collective education system, or a collective legal system. If it is fair to expect us to pay for a military we might never need, or police who might never have to protect us personally, then it is equally fair to protect our access to timely health care. When even the Cubans can do it, we must assume that we can as well. Ask the Canadians, British, French, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese, and all the other Europeans. They all have had working public health systems for decades without becoming bankrupted socialist states, as the HMOs and pharmaceutical companies suggested.

Further, it costs less to do it the public way, since the profit element is removed. It costs us all less. With the elimination of the insurance tricksters the bogus denials will be gone, as well, and the vast majority of us will get treatment in time for it to work.

This is not different than using tax dollars to set up a collective education system, or a collective legal system. If it is fair to expect us to pay for a military we might never need, or police who might never have to protect us personally, then it is equally fair to protect our access to timely health care.

When even the Cubans can do it, we must assume that we can as well.

]]> By: John C http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18363 John C Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18363 No its not fair. But instead of people asking why are cost so high and looking at to what the government has done to cause cost to be so high such as the FDA taking almost 10 years for a drug to get approved and close to $1billon dollars. Or how employer provided health care came about due to wage controls during world war 2. People just want to make government bigger and more powerful and they don't care if other people have to foot the bill. State planned health care has failed all over the world and are now moving back to the privet sector but for some reason we don't want to learn the lessons of history and want to try it our selves. The fact is that we all have different priorities and no one can tell me how to best spend my money other than myself. If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -Hayek No its not fair. But instead of people asking why are cost so high and looking at to what the government has done to cause cost to be so high such as the FDA taking almost 10 years for a drug to get approved and close to $1billon dollars. Or how employer provided health care came about due to wage controls during world war 2. People just want to make government bigger and more powerful and they don’t care if other people have to foot the bill.

State planned health care has failed all over the world and are now moving back to the privet sector but for some reason we don’t want to learn the lessons of history and want to try it our selves.

The fact is that we all have different priorities and no one can tell me how to best spend my money other than myself.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -Hayek

]]> By: Bob Sacamano http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18364 Bob Sacamano Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18364 Yes it is fair, because you live in America and we are supposed to support the common good. Sorry to burst your bubble. Yes it is fair, because you live in America and we are supposed to support the common good. Sorry to burst your bubble.

]]> By: daddyoo123 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18365 daddyoo123 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:25:43 +0000 http://www.pet-healthinsurance.net/is-it-really-fare-to-expect-healthy-people-pay-for-everyone-else%e2%80%99s-health-expenses.htm#comment-18365 It is good that we live in a free society, but we need to keep in mind that buying medical insurance is not for when you get ill is for should you get ill and the healthy people are part of the total make up of the risk that is what helps to stabilize monthly premiums. As for costs rising prices seem to go up on all kinds of services and goods take oil for example which directly effects the prices of many other goods and services. Probably it would be good to have people better educated to be responsible. comment: your vet charges are much lower than anything I remember and sometimes as far as meds were concerned my local pharmacy was less expensive than the vet. It is good that we live in a free society, but we need to keep in mind that buying medical insurance is not for when you get ill is for should you get ill and the healthy people are part of the total make up of the risk that is what helps to stabilize monthly premiums.

As for costs rising prices seem to go up on all kinds of services and goods take oil for example which directly effects the prices of many other goods and services.

Probably it would be good to have people better educated to be responsible.

comment: your vet charges are much lower than anything I remember and sometimes as far as meds were concerned my local pharmacy was less expensive than the vet.

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