Name:   copperline - Subject:   Two Great Quotes Date:   3/6/2012 5:49:45 PM

i believe the underlying reason for Sandra Fluke’s testimony, and the reason why it is so important, is that we need health insurance plans to have uniform minimum standards as part of US Health Policy.   Fluke believes, as i do, that birth control should be available thru all policies... regardless of who the employer is.     Making birth control available reduces health care costs and creates social/financial/healthcare outcomes that prove to be good for everyone involved.      if Conservatives want to oppose nationalized health care & still control spiraling costs, then raising the standards & increasing the efficiency of insurance corporations by creating more uniform coverage is a pretty good idea.  Otherwise, we will continue to build a patchwork system of insurance policies that is nearly impossible for consumers to comprehend, the sheer complexity of which continues to add to the upward momentum of costs.

Right now, administrative expenses account for about 50% of every dollar we spent on healthcare…. That’s a LOT of capital that is drawn off by corporations for organizational overhead… leaving only 50% available for real services.

To me, it’s similar to mandating that insurance companies can’t deny coverage to someone for a pre-existing condition or insuring the portability of coverage.     in order to reign in health care costs, we really do need more uniformity in the health care insurance system because this will keep national costs down.  We already have hundreds, thousands, of different policies creating an inefficient system FAR worse than a single payer system could be.

When the Catholic Church comes into the marketplace and sets up a corporation, they should do so under the same rules that any other corporation has to follow….. with the possible exception of their favored tax status.