Health care costs a hefty price tag for Pentagon

[Mac1337]

Grace62 wrote:
This is the 8th time that you're using that line Dakota. Has it furthered your argument at all?

And I will be using it every time this topic comes up because it is true. The reason it has not "furthered" my argument is because it doesn't jive with your construct so you just can't bring yourself to admit to a simple model every business follows, i.e. fighting for customers, except health insurance. Answer me this. Every other business is on TV, why isn't Aetna?

[Grace62]

Interesting that you want health insurance to be more like auto insurance, which is one of the grander,and most highly regulated, business schemes we have going in our country. Costs vary widely from state to state and it has little to do with relative risk, it has to do with games played by regulators. Michigan's average premiums are $2,500, Vermont's are $1,000.
Don't try to bring that here as an example of "free enterprise," what a joke.

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I am using the model not whether Progressive sells auto insurance or home insurance. The fact remains that they still have to go out and beg for customers. Does Aetna have to do that?

[Grace62]

Dakota wrote:
I am using the model not whether Progressive sells auto insurance or home insurance. The fact remains that they still have to go out and beg for customers. Does Aetna have to do that?

Yes, they do. You're not looking in the right place for advertising. They aren't targeting Jo Blo watching Celebrity Apprentice, they are targeting benefits administrators who decide which plans their companies will offer. (This because we're all tied like serfs to employer benefits, as our corporate overlords prefer)
So Aetna advertises in professional journals, at conferences, etc.

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They are targeting benefits administrators? Tell me something I don't know. They are making backdoor deals and then shoving it down employees throats. It is a lot easier to grease a handful of administrators than go out and get millions of subscribers one at a time. You really don't know this, Mrs. little-people-advocate?

[Grace62]

Dakota wrote:
They are targeting benefits administrators? Tell me something I don't know. They are making backdoor deals and then shoving it down employees throats. It is a lot easier to grease a handful of administrators than go out and get millions of subscribers one at a time. You really don't know this, Mrs. little-people-advocate?

Ladies and gentleman, you don't have to thank me now...but..

Dakota is now an advocate for health care reform!! He finally understands.

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[Mac1337]

Grace62 wrote:
[quote=Dakota]
They are targeting benefits administrators? Tell me something I don't know. They are making backdoor deals and then shoving it down employees throats. It is a lot easier to grease a handful of administrators than go out and get millions of subscribers one at a time. You really don't know this, Mrs. little-people-advocate?

Ladies and gentleman, you don't have to thank me now...but..

Dakota is now an advocate for health care reform!! He finally understands.
SInce you are a student of my posts, go back an dig up 2 year old posts and you'll see I have been saying the same thing. You, on the other hand, the champion of "little people" want to keep the status quo and pour billions into their pockets by placing real scary "mandates" on them. I know, if it isn't Obama-approved, you dare not come out for it.

Same goes for you 1cent queen of Baltimore.

[Grace62]

Folks, it's getting better. Apparently Dakota now favors single payer. I'm telling you, this forum stuff really works.

[Mac1337]

Slight correction. Make that million payers. Get your numbers right. You'll be happily eating your words when Obama comes out with the same idea. I don't have to wait for him though.