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      <![CDATA[Staying healthy will prevent you from using your health insurance and therefore keeping your rates low.<br>
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Health Insurance
        
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      <![CDATA[I do enjoy all the varying opinions of what is wrong in health care, capitalism, etc., etc., . When in reality the system is so distorted, dysfunctional, dis dis dis, that it cannot be fixed. It requires a complete rebuild.
        
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      <![CDATA[Speaking of Davis (he of trhe twins and also a member of the committee that discussed this issue), I'd love to have a transcript of what he said in the meeting. Surely a corrective to this bullshit about lawyers being the problem and tort reform being the solution.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[JEngdahlJ]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Today's medical professional liability system is too adversarial and too expensive. There are alternatives.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[JEngdahlJ]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Many different variables might push health plans into "Cadillac" territory, including geographic location, plan demographics, and other characteristics of the insured population. More at <a href="http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?tag=cadillac-plan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?tag=cad&hellip;</a>
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Phlo]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Where are you today, B? You're missed.
        
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      <![CDATA[Well spoken Jeff.<br>
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      <![CDATA[The numbers are all fictional when dealing with healthcare. Refunds, rebates, discounts, and other confusing contractual language completely cloud the actual costs.
        
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      <![CDATA[I think the Davis twins would be a hit in the carnival, myself.
        
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      <![CDATA[@shawn - First off, stop with the "socialists." The only member of congress that might not be labeled "socialist" under its current, completely ill-informed usage is Ron Paul and he's insane, so...<br>
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Most of the largest, long term health costs come from "diseases of affluence" - heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain forms of cancer, asthma, etc. Meanwhile, our congresspeople are trucking back wads of tax dollars to the pay farmers in their areas to grow (or pay them not to grow anything at all - which is, like, socialism) the corn that becomes the additives in our food and our food's food that cause most of these diseases  - and ultimately our exorbitant health care costs.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Basic family plan where I work - $13,000 a year. <br>
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Luckily my wife works a place offering the same plan for $9,000 a year.<br>
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My fear is the Senate bill which Obama supports will do nothing to change this.
        
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      <![CDATA[Shawn, excellent idea. Please convince my doctor to lower the price of his $140 office visits.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[shawninmemphis]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[there are no "record profits" that can bee shown...this is the talking point the socialists use to try to sway the argument. The biggest problem is that we think every thing should be free when we have the sniffles.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[BWM]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Record insurance company profits? Can you please provide accountant certified public numbers showing these record profits?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[AliasElias]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Tort lawyers and fraud are the causes of insurance cost inflation? I guess record insurance company profits and executive compensation didn't have anything to do with it, eh?
        
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