Whats Wrong With Idaho The Reddest and Whitest of All States is all in for Obamacare (supporters, Republicans)
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I do not believe that argument. I am talking about a Medicare for all with no copays -
that is why I attached my link.
There is no literature that demonstrates costs would go up with a single payer delivery system.
But there are many that prove they would go down.
Just simply look at the health care costs of any other nation that has universal health care systems.
We are alone on this. We are wrong. We should care enough about our country and our
citizens to be on the "right" side of this issue - single payer universal It is the patriotic thing to do
If the government is involved....the cost will skyrocket. (I just had to steal that phase from Obama)
A patient can't sue a hospital for negligence of a non employee doctor.
Sure they can, we're involved with just such a case with one of our private group docs right now.
The doc(s) wanted to operate, the hospital insisted we couldn't handle the patient here, and the hospital insisted on transfer. The patient suffered serious complications as a result of that transfer, and all got sued.
If we had single payer, overall costs would only go up. How much more 'up' than what we have now is hard to say.
That is completely contrary to the experiences of EVERY SINGLE other country in the world with single payer. All of them, and I do mean ALL of them, saw costs not only go down but go down dramatically.
Cherry picking of cases that are easier and cheaper to deal with, yet get full payment.
So the low payers, the no payers, the complicated, difficult and prolonged cases get shunted to another hospital.
I guess car dealerships shouldnt own repair shops then because clearly there would be motive to sell lemon cars and then charge consumers to repair vehicles..
That is completely contrary to the experiences of EVERY SINGLE other country in the world with single payer. All of them, and I do mean ALL of them, saw costs not only go down but go down dramatically.
You have to understand 'we' are not 'every other country'. And our ultimate solution will have to be very American, which is not UHC. At least not yet.
The basis of our HC delivery has to still remain in the private sector.
Many countries that do have better cost containment than we are either smaller or more homogeneous cultures, or use very heavy handed central mandates and cost controls. And ALL of them are also experiencing significant cost increases, as it's inevitable everywhere.
I guess car dealerships shouldnt own repair shops then because clearly there would be motive to sell lemon cars and then charge consumers to repair vehicles..
yeah right..
You don't know that there is abuse in the warranty/car repair business?
You don't know that there is abuse in the warranty/car repair business?
Of course there is, are you suggesting we should nationalize car repair businesses now?
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It is the patriotic thing to do
