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So you support more obstructionism and the do nothing approach of the left?
I don't believe I said that..
Maybe you think Obama should push single payer system like the ones they have in Europe? Good luck with getting people to believe that following Europe is still a good idea.
no, I don't think Obama will.. It will be another president a cpl years down the road.. and when presented as "medicare for all" ppl will like it...just like the people on medicare love it... it's getting time to stop letting people die because they don't have insurance. Romney's own spokeswoman said if ppl lived in Mass where there was uni healthcare, ppl wouldn't die because they couldn't see a doctor. This issue is exactly the danger of a propagandist mogul like Newscorp spreading it's own agenda for it's own benefit.. a single-payer
will not make this country socialist.. because it's
not socialism.. besides, we already have that, it's called the VA... and we haven't turned into a pumpkin yet..
single payer means just want it says.. instead of 5000 different 'payers' i.e
insurance companies(because that's what a payer is)' paying your bill, a 'single-payer', a single entity.. one company instead of hundreds,does it.. a gov't run agency would collect
all the fees and pay all the bills.. that alone, in admin costs and bullshit costs would save massive amounts of money... and the best part, there wouldn't be a law requiring that agency to make a profit like there is now with what we have..
tell me, how does an insurance company today make a profit? They charge insane amounts and then deny your claim.. and by law, they have to make that profit to their shareholders... really nice until it's you they deny..
a single payer is one giant insurance agency being a central collection pot for everyone's fees and the sending them directly to doctor/hospital.. instead of 1000 separate agencies collecting it and dolling it out as they feel like it, when they feel like it and after you've put in the right DX and filled out the correct paper work..and then keeping some for their own profits....single payer= less paper,less hassle,less cost.. not socialism.
90% of this country would pay less for healthcare with a single-payer and everyone would have coverage.. Congress enjoys it, postal workers too.. what? are they more important than you and your family? so much so that you're happy to give them awesome gold coverage while you figure out how you're going to get that lump under your mother's arm biopsied?
But while the benefits would be publicly financed, the health care providers would, for the most part, be private.
Indeed, profit-making medical practices, laboratories, hospitals and other institutions would continue. They would simply bill the single-payer agency, as they do now with Medicare.
The Congressional Research Service says Conyers’ bill, which has dozens of co-sponsors, would cover and provide free “all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care and mental health services.”
It also would eliminate the need, the spending and the administrative costs for myriad federal and state health programs such as Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The act also “provides for the eventual integration of the health programs” of the VA and Indian Health Services. And it could replace Medicaid to cover long-term nursing care. The act is opposed by the insurance lobby as well as most free-market Republicans, because it would be government-run and prohibit insurance companies from selling health insurance that duplicates the law’s benefits.
It is supported by most labor unions and thousands of health professionals, including Dr. Quentin Young, the Rev. Martin Luther King’s physician when he lived in Chicago and Obama’s longtime friend. But Young, an organizer of the physicians group, is disappointed that Obama, once an advocate of single-payer, has changed his position and had not even invited Young to the White House meeting on health care.
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/april/singlepayer_health_.php
I think the voucher is a great idea.
Let's hope vouchers will never happen..
Cost controls never work and a market without good prices is dysfunctional and not remotely free.
a market where a 4 year old whose mom works 2 part-time jobs because no one is hiring full-time which means no insurance, who makes too much for medicaid but not enough to buy private health insurance so she can't afford his dental or his check up because health care is based on the profit margin of an insurance company, should never happen in the United States of America in 2012
But it is only part of the solution. There are so many problems piled upon problems, due to years of statist fixers working their "magic" and rigging the system so that it's benefits are concentrated on a small group, that it will take many revisions and years of reform to restore a stable market.
the only way to stabilize healthcare is to take it out of the hands of the insurance companies who's only goal is to make money off the fees you pay them to see your doctor.
I mean, it's crazy when you boil it down isn't it? You can't pay the doctor yourself because insurance has forced it's way into the market driving costs out of this world.. then, insurance takes a god-like position deciding if the money you gave them month after month, for years, gives you the right to see your doctor..and if they deem your claim 'nah I don't think so', then you just wasted all those years of your money.. and your plan is to keep it that way?
I like single-payer better.. lower fees->one agency=doctor visits=doctors paid... easy peasy..
