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It's funny that you seem to be right wing on everything except this issue, where you and I are in total agreement. We need single payer in this country
I basically am because I'm so sick and tired of insurance companies and pharmaceuticals ruining peoples lives. Getting sick and or having a serious illness is not a choice and people shouldn't be filing for bankruptcy to pay for medical expenses even though they pay high insurance premiums. There's something desperately wrong with that picture.
In those times past, Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Polio were for the most part, untreatable and unsurvivable. People died from a simple absessed tooth.
When I think of single payer health insurance. I think of Government created affordable health insurance where individuals can choose this option or a private insurance or supplement with a private insurance. They have the abilityto choose from plans already set up or build their own plan. Cost affordable and what is covered is transparent. Can use the insurance across State lines. There would be a small flat tax to maintain the market. Tax rebates for those that opt put of this. Tax rebates for those involved with the plan are rewarded for living a healthy lifestyle. Few other details, but most of the jist when I think single payer health insurance.
Wasn't single payer a fail in Vermont ? If anything you would think that a pretty blue state like that would make it work.
States cannot afford the HC of their people for the simple reason that states cannot create money. Just take the Medicare expense for any state, and will be about equal to their entire state budget.
It is for you too. Medicare is a social relief plan administered centrally for all. Although you paid into it, most who paid in are subsidized. Most enrollees receive 1/3 -1/2 more in benefits than what they put in. And that there in a nut shell is why Medicare works so well.
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