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that' one of the two questions liberals refuse to answer because even if you taxed the ''''rich'''' at 100%..you still wouldnt raise enough revenue...so the hard truth is........ EVERY TAXPAYER through the nose the 2nd question is guarentee that it wont be crapcare
I'm not actually a liberal, in either the classical sense, which I suspect applies to you, or the way the term is currently used here, which is probably what you meant.
But I'll be happy to give it a try. If everyone pays a small amount, such as the $128/mo charged by B.C.'s insurance plan, and if the plan represents everyone in the province, then on the cost side the provincial plan is able to negotiate much lower rates, while on the revenue side the modest premiums paid by everyone provide enough to cover the sick.
I blame the costs for health care on the Congress of the United States. In 1965 they started us on the way downhill with Medicare. Now before you get too excited about it I have been on Medicare for nearly 15 years but I couldn't afford to pay for my own insurance once my wife's company kicked me into Medicare.
Back to the subject. Medicare has resulted in health care givers (hospitals, doctors, the whole bunch) raising what they charge to people on insurance because Medicare pays such a small amount of what they want to charge. Those care givers have to agree to take what Medicare will give them for any specific service and the per cent of that amount has gone down since the passage of Obamacare. I think they have proved quite well that government provided health care won't work but then we will see pretty fast after January 2014. The thing that gets me is that we have to pay taxes that supposedly are saved up for the onset of Obamacare for three or so years before it goes into effect. Those taxes will still be there after it goes in and we will get to pay more of them when single payer comes along.
BTW, where will the money for single payer (government controlled healthcare) come from?
And the caregivers have the same problem with private insurance companies. I get statrements from AvMed showing what the Dr. charged versus what AvMed pays. It's less than half.
that' one of the two questions liberals refuse to answer
because even if you taxed the ''''rich'''' at 100%..you still wouldnt raise enough revenue...so the hard truth is........ EVERY TAXPAYER through the nose
the 2nd question is guarentee that it wont be crapcare
You pay right now. Either in premiums or lower pay or both. In the current US system pre ACA, you pay about double what other Industrialized Nations do, for the same basic quality of care. In a Govt run system, tax revenue would cover the costs, only the cost, as there would be no need for Ins Co profits off the top. It would not be Govt controlled care, in the VA for example, I make any decision, yea or nay, on what test or procedure I have. Of course the Doctors advise me, but the ultimate decision, is mine.
There are a few veterans at work, everyone of them pays $250 a month to have Blue Cross Blue Shield despite the fact they could get VA care for "free".
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