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2019-03-05 Home Front: Politix
‘Medicare for All': The Impossible Dream
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-05 09:21|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 It would be foolish to do anything other than let the FREE-MARKET handle health care, IMO. We are NOT doing that right now.
Posted by ranture 2019-03-05 09:42||   2019-03-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 >The Brits and Canadians I know certainly love their single-payer health care systems.

Go online and do some journalistic research and you'll find plenty of people fed up with the shite NHS.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 09:50||   2019-03-05 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 >Then, since health care would be a public monopoly, the government could set prices and force health care providers to accept current Medicare payment rates.

BWHAHA. facepalm.

Only competition and fighting rent-seeking can lower prices.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 09:52||   2019-03-05 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 >If this version of Medicare for all worked as planned, everybody would be insured

No they would not be insured... They'd have their poor health choices subsidised (as it would make ZERO difference to their premium).

Should I go on?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 09:54||   2019-03-05 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 1) If anyone ever hits your car while you are driving, say you have chest pains and want an ambulance. You will get a full cardiac workup on insurance company dime. In many cases it will be the "uninsured motorist fund" so you will be drawing from something you most likely paid into.

2)The old drunk who fell and hit his head, or the woman who was in a fight with her spouse will be seen ahead of you in ER even if you are bleeding out in the waiting area.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-05 10:49||   2019-03-05 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Do they even do their own math?

force health care providers to accept current Medicare payment rates. Medicare reimburses hospitals at 87 percent of costs

You gonna hold a gun to the head of doctors and nurses and FORCE them to stay in jobs that don't pay enough to cover costs? Who the f**K do these people think they are, FORCING people? Want a mass exodus of doctors and nurses? This is how you do it.

The saddest part is the author doesn't even see himself in the jackboots he just put on.
Posted by Vespasian Unairt7733 2019-03-05 13:58||   2019-03-05 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 But they're the good guys so coercion is OK....
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-05 16:20||   2019-03-05 16:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Yea price fixing and government monopolies! Never fails!
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-05 16:27||   2019-03-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 *takes deep breath* Lemme explain: Medicare Geezer goes to my doctor and receives $100 in services, and my doc gets $50 payment. I go to my doc for the exact $100 in services and am charged $150 to make up the difference. Fine, but Geezer is old and does multiple doctor visits, paying only 50% of the costs for many, many visits.

Multiply that by millions of Geezers and you have our current system.

Medicare for All means we go broke literally tomorrow, rather than 20 years from now.
Posted by regular joe 2019-03-05 16:27||   2019-03-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Socialists Criticized as 'Math Deniers'.

-Babylon Bee
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-05 17:48||   2019-03-05 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I retired very early when I discovered I had been committing a felony for every slight typographical error I made on a chart, even if it mattered not a whit to the patient or to his care, even if what I did was quite clear to a reasonable reviewer or the chart or of the care given. Felony fraud IIRC.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-03-05 20:06||   2019-03-05 20:06|| Front Page Top

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