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ObamaCare has aided the growth of the malignancy that is destroying U.S. health care: a massive federal administrative apparatus and regulatory machine that diverts trillions—not millions or even billions—of “health care” dollars away from health care services to pay itself, to pay the health care bureaucracy.
Costs will come down in simply removing the feds from the equation.
Also - many people in health care want to help others, which is why they go into health care in the first place - and part of helping others is making prices affordable so people can use their services.
I seriously doubt costs will drop in that scenario unless regulation was added to guarantee upfront pricing. When it comes to health people are not rational about costs just feeling better as such the industry will almost always have the upper hand in the cost of anything but routine checkups.
If it were ONLY about curtailing diseases, there could be some argument to be made that it is the fed's responsibility. But how is anything other than preventing diseases that could affect the general population for the greater good of society?
You want to abuse your OWN body for your entire life, don't expect me to pick up the tab when you fall apart.
Because diseases happen not just because of what we eat or our lifestyles...
On top of that, we all live in different areas of the country and different environments. We can't control everything, but we can try to mitigate as much as we can as a whole rather than worrying about it ourselves.
I'm sure they do since most of them believe it will be better than reality.
All you have to do is hear the masses calling for higher corporate taxes while being completely oblivious to the fact that those taxes are passed on to us one way or another.
I'm sure they do since most of them believe it will be better than reality.
Medicare is reality and is very popular.
Arent you a libertarian who believes everyone should fend for themselves? Grandma with early onset dementia should shop around for private insurance at age 70? Its so out of touch with reality that its no wonder you guys prefer to talk about weed and the constitution in order to lure people into social darwinism.
I damn sure would if I were paying the bill and seeing what I'm getting for my money.
Without me knowing, they can raise and raise and raise the cost without accountability. There is no threshold, with other peoples money and their best interest isn't you, but their bank accounts.
You know you can ask now. That was the idea behind high deductible and HSA plans. The trouble turned out that most people liked having things paid for and as such went with conventional plans. Those that did not usually calculated the cost and realized they used so much health insurance that the high deductible plan was cheaper. That forced insurance companies to adjust the plan costs which the put HSA and high deductible plans back out of the main stream.
One of the issues was that medical companies were very dodgy about giving actual costs. Instead they would say things like it should be $500 but it may cost you up to $1000. People don't like that.
If America loved the idea of single payer non profit then we'd already have it. What prevents us from expanding medicare for all is that people don't vote in government bodies who are for it, or we'd have it. It's pretty simple. What we have now is a divide, some do, some don't. That isn't the same.
Who ran on this premise? Bernie Sanders, and he didn't even make it out of the gate. When we elect a president and a congress/senate who all agree with this then we have a chance. So far we are too divided to get that together.
Meanwhile, most all Americans would love to have affordable healthcare regardless of which system they think will provide it. It's not because some people are mean and others are nice.
They like it. Lobbyists and special interest and the medical industry (which makes up over 20% of GDP) don't. Hence it gets blocked.
1) Everyone joins the Medicare/Medicaid system and health insurance companies are almost completely eliminated.
2) Raise the medicare/medicaid tax to help fund the massive increase of people in the system. Remember that you and your employer no longer has to pay for health insurance.
3) Now that the medicare/medicaid system has control, they also have the ability to tell hospitals and pharmaceutical companies "sorry, that $8000 MRI you billed should cost no more than $500. Here's a check for $500" and "sorry, that $50 bandaid costs $1 at CVS, here's $5 to cover the cost of the bandaid plus applying it to the patient".
But because of lobbyists in the insurance, medical, and pharmaceutical industries, this will almost never happen.
In all first world countries all employers still contribute to medical coverage and so does the recipients. They do so to the state, not shareholding entities. Many use a mixture of both for-profit and state insurance also, like our Medicare does.
Arent you a libertarian who believes everyone should fend for themselves? Grandma with early onset dementia should shop around for private insurance at age 70? Its so out of touch with reality that its no wonder you guys prefer to talk about weed and the constitution in order to lure people into social darwinism.
And on the other side you want total government control and confiscation to pay for your wants.
Your plan - the government takes from everyone with more than you to pay for everything you want.
With my plan, most 70 year old grandmothers will have a couple hundred thousands dollars left in their HSA.
They are not getting super rich nor are they paid too much.
Stop with the envy.
Average household income in the US in around $58,000 so on the low end one person is being paid 2.4 times as much as the average household and on the high end they are being paid almost 5 times as much. While I agree those are not high salaries they are not low either. The highly paid oncologist and surgeon will likely be things of the past in the next 20 years thanks to automation so that doesn't concern me, It's more the general cost of everything at every level in healthcare.
Your plan - the government takes from everyone with more than you to pay for everything you want.
BINGO!
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