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Post by jorj on Mar 31, 2017 9:18:17 GMT -7
Do away with the penny. Round up every price that is marked something something 99 to the even dollar. Take one cent from every sale in the country and put it into socialized health care.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 9:56:57 GMT -7
That could work. But the only problem is the .99 and .95 is a psychological ploy to get people to buy.
I read something a couple years ago that said when people see .99 or .95 they actually believe they are getting a better deal. It would be hard to do away with that.
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Post by jorj on Mar 31, 2017 12:26:08 GMT -7
That could work. But the only problem is the .99 and .95 is a psychological ploy to get people to buy. I read something a couple years ago that said when people see .99 or .95 they actually believe they are getting a better deal. It would be hard to do away with that. 50 Years ago I could believe that. But not today. Besides that I think it cost something like 99.5 cents to make a hundred pennies. We could take that savings and do away with private home owners insurance.
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Post by badman on Mar 31, 2017 14:37:17 GMT -7
jorj, hoping you are doing well.
This may shock you, but I would agree with some kind of national sales tax to provide for catastrophic health plans for everyone.
I've had an occasion when someone offered to pay for a minor auto accident in order to not make a claim with their insurance company. They didn't want their premiums to increase.
For some dam reason, folks treat health coverage like politicians spending taxpayer money. They shop prices for almost everything, and make decisions if it's really necessary to spend their dollars, but if the health insurance company is paying...they don't seem to give a chit.
Here is a good opinion from John Goodman (long called the "father" of health savings accounts)..
"When patients aren't spending their own money, there is no way doctors can compete for their patronage based on price. When they don't compete on price, they don't compete on quality either. The services they offer will be only those services the third parties pay for and only in settings and ways the third parties have blessed. But give patients control over their own health care dollars and the provider community will begin to meet needs in ways the third- party-payer bureaucracies could never have dreamed of."
For someone to loose everything they have worked and saved for due to a catastrophic event bothers me, but if folks want to visit the doctor every time they have a runny nose or scratch their foot, they should shop the way they do with their everyday decisions and with their own money.
The requirements to qualify for long term care on Medicaid also needs another look.
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Post by badman on Mar 31, 2017 14:42:07 GMT -7
BTW, I read somewhere that it costs about 1.7 cents to make a penny, so eliminating that by itself is a good idea.
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