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I don’t use their healthcare. It sucks. Many times on my way to my condo I pass by the QEII hospital on Summer street and I see hugely obese people that are patients in that hospital puffing down a pack of cigarettes.
But I do fly my plane there. It gets hangered at Gateway FBO at Stanfield International Airport.
The rest of your questions are obviously stupid.
In a city ER waits can be very long - more people - an outbreak like the RSV virus - kids in hallways - really bad- some days better than others - but we all wait
I am all for Medicare, Medicaid and State-run insurance cooperatives as long as it's a small state, with Japanese diets and obesity rates and mountain athletic lifestyles.
But overall I can't imagine what will happen if states here in the United States start going single-payer like certain large states have proposed.
American's are far less healthy than Canadians. I can't imagine the waiting times here if we go to a Canadian style system.
The only way a socialized system might work here in the U.S would be if the federal government just gave a block grant based on population to the states and we lived as healthy as people in Japan and the wages were much lower in the health care profession.
EMTALA has been law for 33 years. Hospital ERs cannot decline a patient due to a lack of insurance or inability to pay.
Insurance is the transfer of risk in exchange for a premium. All insurance; healthcare, liability, auto, property, life, disability, unemployment, workers comp, income, farm crop, earthquake, flood, etc mutualize risk, regardless if it’s public or private. Mutualizarion socializes risks.
Single Payer means different things to different people. Medicare is viewed as a Single Payer model. When I turn 65 I will have prepaid the equivalent of 50 years of premiums in the form of a payroll tax. I will then have to continue to pay a Medicare premium and buy a Supplimental plan to help cover what Medicare does not. Or I could opt out of traditional Medicare and get an Advantage Plan with a narrow healthcare provider network. I will also have to buy a separate plan for prescription medications.
In absence of prepaying premiums for 50 years, what might the premium of a Single Payer/ Medicare for all model be?
Think clearly. I said I pass down Summer St going by the QEII hospital and I see hugely obese patients smoking down cigarettes. So, stay with me, I am driving a car, you follow, so I must be outside. So must the smokers. Does it now make sense?
There's is and has been an epidemic of rural hospital closures in America.
Declining populations in some rural areas of the US are increasingly unable to sustain a local hospital.
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