Adam Cohen Quotes
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
Cohen, Adam. "The 'Public Option' for Health Care Is Un-American? So Is Social Security." The New York Times, 19 July 2009, p. WK7.
Although extremely conservative, Paul was opposed to giving corporations a cut of economic activity just to say that it was private and not public of government run. The corporate HMOs and managed care organizations claimed that they are performing a quality control and money saving service, but there were non profit organizations that performed the functions just as well and did not add on a profit fee for themselves,
At the time in America, the insurance companies only paid out less than 80 percent of all the money they took in for health insurance. More than 20 percent went into their high overhead and profits. In contrast, to the 20 percent or more that it costs with insurance companies to administer health insurance payments, the agency that performs the same function for Medicare doe so with only a 6 percent cost Sanders argued that by getting rid of the insurance companies, the nation could save about 14 percent of the entire insured medical bills for the nation—many billions of dollars which would reduce average health insurance premiums by 14 percent. Opponents argue that the would be a socialist system and give too much potential control of individual health matters to a government operated or government controlled organizations. Politicians, in order to look good with the voters, would lower premiums and also pay out less either shortchanging doctors and hospitals or rating medial care somehow.
Adam Seth Cohen (born c. 1962) is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times. He also works in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
