I received a survey in the e-mails today. It was one regarding the healthcare stuff. However, many of the questions were loaded, I’m going to paste the quiz along with my answers in here for your reading enjoyment. The questions are numbered and my answers are in bold, where italicized, it was an answer not in the A,B,C,D of the quiz. I responded via email back to the reply-to of this address rather than sheep-ly fill out the answers inside the little box they gave me.
*1. Are you satisfied with your health insurance plan?*
Yes, I am satisfied with my private insurance.
Yes, I am satisfied with my combination of public and private coverage.
No.
Undecided.
I am not insured.
I am covered by a public insurance plan (like Medicare or Medicaid).
* 2. Do you believe that our nation’s health insurance system needs
reforming? *
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
*3. Have you read any of the healthcare reform legislation currently
being considered in Congress?*
Yes.
No.
Some.
*4. What should be the most important goal in reforming our nation’s
health system?*
Making private insurance more affordable for Americans, including the 47
million uninsured individuals.
Making care more efficient by reducing waste and unnecessary treatments.
Shoring up the finances of Medicare and Medicaid.
Imposing caps on medical malpractice lawsuits.
Other
Increasing the options available to people and letting the Individual person decide what is best for themselves.
*5. If you believe that our nation’s health insurance system needs
reforming, what do you believe is the best way to reduce the number of
uninsured Americans and reduce long-term health care costs?*
Creating a health insurance plan, administered by the federal
government, to compete on a level playing field with private insurers.
Creating nonprofit co-ops, operated by a non-governmental entity, to
provide insurance to members and compete on a level playing field with
private insurance companies.
Creating a single government plan to cover every American.
Expand eligibility for existing public programs like Medicare, Medicaid,
and SCHIP.
Undecided.
No action necessary.
None of the available answers are the proper solution. The solution is to allow the American People, individually, to choose whats best. To enable them to have many, many choices, so that the market may determine what the best course of action is. No one “quick fix” or easily explainable solution will work.
*6. Do you support requiring all Americans to have health insurance? *
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
*7. Do you support prohibiting insurance companies from not offering
insurance to people with preexisting conditions? *
Yes, all people should have guaranteed access to health insurance.
No, insurance companies should be able to limit coverage to people with
preexisting conditions.
Undecided.
This is also a loaded question. Insurance companies should be allowed to operate their business freely. With a great deal of consumer choice, they will bend to do what the consumers want, else they’ll go out of business. If covering preexisting conditions is important enough, people will flock to insurance companies that will cover them. Forcing one way or the other will not work.
*8. Do you support creating a public health insurance plan, administered
by the federal government, that would compete on a level playing field
with private insurers, as long as people could keep their current
insurance if they are happy with it?*
Yes.
No.No. Its not in the specifically enumerated powers, therefore it cannot be done.
Undecided.
*9. If a government-run, public health insurance option is created, do
you support making the public option widely available to all Americans,
or do you support implementing a “trigger” so it is only available in
areas where choice is limited because one or two private insurers
maintain a monopoly.*
Widely available.
Trigger.
Undecided.
A better “Trigger” would be to allow the market to create more insurance companies in that area.
*10. Instead of creating a public health insurance option to compete
with private insurers, do you support creating a nonprofit co-op system
(as described in question 5b) that would offer insurance for members and
compete with private insurers?*
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
*11. Do you support requiring employers with a payroll over $250,000 to
contribute to their employees’ health benefits?*
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
*12. Do you support passing health care reform even if it will add to
our nation’s federal deficit, or do you only support passing health
reform if it is revenue neutral and does not add to the deficit?*
Yes, implement health reform even if it adds to the deficit.
No, only implement health reform if it is revenue neutral and does not
add to the deficit.
Undecided.
I do not support any health care reform, regardless of the cost.
This implies that the Federal Government must be involved in healthcare reform. The Federal Government is the problem that is preventing real reform from happening. No one group of people can know what system will work best for all individuals. The only way is to let the market decide by reducing regulation and enabling individual people to make the best choice for their own healthcare.
*13. Roughly 164 million of Americans receive their health insurance
from their employers. Do you support taxing employer provided benefits
to help finance healthcare reform?*
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
This also assumes that the Federal Government must be involved to solve the problem.
*14. Do you support imposing a surcharge on families making over $1
million, rather than taxing employer provided benefits, to help pay for
healthcare reform?*
Yes.
No.
Undecided.
And there you have it.
