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Everyone who can pay will pay more. Win win in my book. Oh and less choice and fewer services for all. Medicare gets whacked $500,000,000,000 to help pay for this ponze scheme. Oh I am so thrilled with this pile of cra# because we are very much underemloyed with a lack of work in our profession and we can hardly pay for our private insurance as it is to look forward to paying even more. I am breathless.
Having read independant actuarial papers on the merits of mandatory insurance plans here goes.....
We have already been paying for other peoples health insurance via higher charges on our own bills to cover those that go to the hospital with no coverage and never pay. By having them pay *something* into the system it should actually enhance fairness and may actually reduce costs for those of us that have been paying for healthcare all along.
For an example using auto insurance....imagine that auto insurance wasn't mandatory and that if an uninsured driver crashed into you that they would also get their car fixed (ie can't refuse someone treatment at the ER) but that the repair shop would just charge you double because the other driver will never pay their debt. What would happen to the auto insurance premiums for the people that buy insurance?
More people will have access to medical care, so that means more jobs in the medical field, right?
No, it means less medical specialists will be available.
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