Comments on: Even More on Health Care http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/even_more_on_health_care/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:10:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Steve Verdon http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/even_more_on_health_care/comment-page-1/#comment-51961 Steve Verdon Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:16:57 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=11337#comment-51961 Well the number $2,000 is just for the sake of discussion, probably not the actual number. I know that depending on the deductible, and type of coverage (i.e. does it include prescription drugs) plans can cost as little as $50/month. So if it ever got to a point where this actually happened (fat chance of this tho') the number would probably be different. Well the number $2,000 is just for the sake of discussion, probably not the actual number. I know that depending on the deductible, and type of coverage (i.e. does it include prescription drugs) plans can cost as little as $50/month. So if it ever got to a point where this actually happened (fat chance of this tho') the number would probably be different.

]]> By: bryan http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/even_more_on_health_care/comment-page-1/#comment-51947 bryan Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:29:30 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=11337#comment-51947 <em>If you have no health insurance and get run over by a car and taken to the hospital you will be treated.3 So these people are by and large already getting health care. However, their typical method of recieving that health care is via the emergency room which is expensive and costly in other non-monetary ways.</em> Whether you have health insurance or not is irrelevant to the treatment of someone who is run over by a car, or shot in the face, or injured in a suicide bomb attack. Also, you say $2,000 per person, so you are saying that for a family of five, you would require $10,000 in insurance payments? If you have no health insurance and get run over by a car and taken to the hospital you will be treated.3 So these people are by and large already getting health care. However, their typical method of recieving that health care is via the emergency room which is expensive and costly in other non-monetary ways.

Whether you have health insurance or not is irrelevant to the treatment of someone who is run over by a car, or shot in the face, or injured in a suicide bomb attack.

Also, you say $2,000 per person, so you are saying that for a family of five, you would require $10,000 in insurance payments?

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