The dems having been pushing for this forever
the author seems like a big government conservative.
I will let Democrats pay my healthcare bill out of their personal checking and savings accounts since they are so keen on it.
I’m really impressed with their charity and selflessness.
My last 2 day hospital stay generated a bill of 68,000 dollars.
I’ll forward it to Chucky Sh00mer.
Single payer is a damned nightmare. I cannot think of a single thing good about it. Why is the free market so horrifying to them?
That’s all we need, a free market.
Well, gee, why stop with single payer health care?
I mean, let’s expand it to life, disability and long term care. Why let those pesky pre existing conditions get in the way? INSURANCE FOR ALL
1. If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep your ObamaCare. Now every screaming Leftist loon shuts up.
2. If you don't like your ObamaCare, you can go back to the normal system of buying whatever insurance plan you want, in a free marketplace, with no coercion or punishments from DC. Competition brings prices back down (although probably not to 2009 levels, sadly), and freedom and capitalism are brought back to the 80+% who were worse-off after ObamaCare was inflicted upon us.
3. ObamaCare will be used almost entirely by those who aren't or cannot pay for it, so it will have to be covered by the general fund, since it cannot, in any form, ever be self-supporting anyway. (That's going to be a significant cost, to be sure, but better than the alternatives).
4. If you do not have legal status in the US, you are not entitled to the ObamaCare handout.
Done. Maybe add a line whereby insurers may now pick up those with pre-existing conditions (the one and only good line in the thousands of pages of the ACA). The Left cannot argue against their beloved victims being free to choose to keep it, the Right should be overjoyed that free market capitalism is allowed back in healthcare, Ryan has a flawed DC HealthCare plan to "fix" every year (but thankfully won't impact the non-parasites), and Trump can go back to fixing everything else.
I don’t see why anyone isn’t suggesting a completely new heathcare plan AND let ACA co-exist. You can choose. Repeal all the mandates from ACA. The new plan does what it does and ACA does what it does. If the new plan attracts participants and sucks the life out of ACA, then what’s wrong with that?
HC costs are NEVER going to decline significantly as long as the Feds are empowered to mandate a giant form of umbrella coverage, where 73 year olds have to pay for maternity benefits. They are NEVER going to decline as long as routine office visits are covered. But most importantly, they are NEVER going to decline as long as HC insurance companies are granted their existing franchise to arbitrage 80+% of current HC costs. This is why HC costs are 3-5 times as large as they should be. The government has granted monopolies to the insurers, completely illegally, in defiance of all antitrust legislation passed in the 20’s and 30’s. Lobbyists for these companies wrote the bulk of ACA, so the outcome should be of no surprise. It’s that simple.
Hell No
I have coverage from 3 sources.
1. My retirement insurance which is the worst.
2. Medicare which is the second best.
3. And the VA which is the best.
The last two are single payer...
I almost never use my retirement insurance. They are just as restrictive or more in what they will cover as the single payers and the deductions are much higher.
Ah, 10th Amendment, the Libtards never knew of ye!
“Single payer” means nobody gets health care. Dumbass idea.
I’d like to give this article the recognition it deserves.
Anyone have some sheets of Charmin printer paper I can print this article on for my morning deuce?
so this moron didn’t see the Vermont analysis that shows why they dropped single payer ?
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The single sentence repeal is the only way to go.
The nonsense that these idiots call “health care” is slow suicide, and the very definition of insanity.
It is as if free market economics was magically airbrushed out of all accepted discussion.
Golly. It is almost as if obamacare was planned to fail and fail on the next president’s term.
Hasn’t he alwayalways been clear he supports single payer? No one anywhere in the government or media supports a conservative or common sense health plan. In 20 years, our healthcare system will be so degraded you won’t recognize it. Hillary/Obama/ Trump/Ryan - there isn’t much difference in their blhealthcare goals.
And this guy is a Foundation Professor at the Scalia Law School. Looks like after denigrating what he described as “crown government”, he is insisting on it now.
Everyone should have access to affordable healthcare insurance depending on their income bracket.
Single payer would mean mandated participation so it is a no-go right from the git-go.
If everyone has options but don’t advantage of at least some coverage in case something unexpected happens then they might be looking at things like an amputation instead of a rebuilding of a limb or possibly not getting the level of care for cancer or a million other things. People should be motivated to get some coverage but for young healthy people that coverage might be a $5k deductable they never use unless it hits the fan unexpectedly. Make that coverage affordable for their income, say $100-125 a month for people earning under $25k a year and go from there. Make it free for those working yet only earning under $18k a year. They will earn more eventually but they need coverage in the meantime like anyone else.
Lots of FReepers want this. Which is sad.