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I still support the public option. Or a National Medicaid and/or Medicare. And keep the privates that can find business where it is desired.
I never said it would be particularly good for the private hospitals. But our local hospital makes good money with Medicare. Of course it all will depend on reimbursements down the line. Today outpatient fees make it all happen.
The real issue is perception vs reality. People think they can still have access to the private system the same way they have today. 65% have employer sponsored private onsurance. Another 15% have Medicare.
So essentially 80% of us population enjoy access to private system. Under single payer/UHC. You essentially are acknowledging the private world will shrink dramatically "keep the privates that can find business where it is desired"
My personal opinion is if US goes single payer. We will have less thAn 10% private system access.
So that means the 80% of the U.S. population with access to private health care today. 70% of them will lose that option for private health care and be re assigned to the same system people currently on Medicaid have access to along with various tricare and other govt insurance. A much more restricted network under UHC.
You think pokiticans will have to lie up their butts again by telling those 70% that they can keep their same health care. Americans are pretty stupid. But they aren't that stupid to think UHC won't change their access to a more limited one.
The real issue is perception vs reality. People think they can still have access to the private system the same way they have today. 65% have employer sponsored private onsurance. Another 15% have Medicare.
So essentially 80% of us population enjoy access to private system. Under single payer/UHC. You essentially are acknowledging the private world will shrink dramatically "keep the privates that can find business where it is desired"
My personal opinion is if US goes single payer. We will have less thAn 10% private system access.
So that means the 80% of the U.S. population with access to private health care today. 70% of them will lose that option for private health care and be re assigned to the same system people currently on Medicaid have access to along with various tricare and other govt insurance. A much more restricted network under UHC.
You think pokiticans will have to lie up their butts again by telling those 70% that they can keep their same health care. Americans are pretty stupid. But they aren't that stupid to think UHC won't change their access to a more limited one.
Private carriers are different discussion than private providers. There would continue to be niche needs for private carriers. But many of us private docs would continue to service Medicare and a public option if we get good enough reimbursements. And those fees would be dependent on we the people and our elected officials. As has been so often for so long in HC.
No matter how much people insist on blinding themselves to the truth, adequate healthcare is a right - an unfulfilled right for many, but a right all-the-same. Repeated denials just underscore the extent to which the opposition perspective is built solely on lies.
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Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
No matter how much people insist on blinding themselves to the truth, adequate healthcare is a right - an unfulfilled right for many, but a right all-the-same. Repeated denials just underscore the extent to which the opposition perspective is built solely on lies.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
And I'm here to tell you it is not. Those without means have always been cared for out of charity or with various well-meaning government programs.
A right? No.
And I'm here to tell you it is not. Those without means have always been cared for out of charity or with various well-meaning government programs.
A right? No.
The new normal:
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Wolf Blitzer put a terrific question to Rep. Ron Paul at last night's CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate in Tampa, Fla. What should happen, the moderator asked hypothetically, if a healthy 30-year-old man who can afford insurance chooses not to buy it—and then becomes catastrophically ill and needs intensive care for six months? When Dr. Paul ducked, fondly recalling the good old days before Medicare and saying that we should all take responsibility for ourselves, Blitzer pressed the point. "But, Congressman, are you saying the society should just let him die?" At that point, the rabble erupted in cheers and whoops of "Yeah!"
Who to believe? You, someone with a vested interest to support a perspective inclined against the less fortunate, or the entirety of the world community in consensus, including our own nation that ratified the statement.
Precisely. Paul shows that he knows how immoral the perspective he peddles is by refusing to answer, but his supporters reveal the true colors of the right-wing: Somewhere between indefensibly callous and unabashedly blood-thirsty.
No matter how much people insist on blinding themselves to the truth, adequate healthcare is a right - an unfulfilled right for many, but a right all-the-same. Repeated denials just underscore the extent to which the opposition perspective is built solely on lies.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
LOL. I'll be more than willing to apply what we send to the U.N. for health care. Seems a fine trade off.
LOL. I'll be more than willing to apply what we send to the U.N. for health care. Seems a fine trade off.
It's odd how that's not on the negotiating table? How unusual. Short on pragmatic solutions & long on sound bites. Carry on!
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