however, this is the slippery slope.....they throw the words out there, it'll take a couple of years, pretty soon ABC will do a poll showing how Americans are more accepting of it, and there you go....
you work all your life and in the end, you'll get no say....
the decisions will be most certainly biased towards the party people....the transplants will got to them..the most up to date meds and treatments...
but for we common trash, we'll be lucky to get a clean ditty...
the decisions will be most certainly biased towards the party people....the transplants will got to them..the most up to date meds and treatments...
That worked out pretty well for the Soviet Union, didn't it?
people pay for their own insurance, it’s not your money they are using. may not even be your insurance company.
i agree that there would need to be a defined cutoff level of basic care if they have nothing.
The problem is that there is a point that although the patient can be treated it isn't financially worth it to the insurer. If the insurer is under a contract they may be required to continue paying, although the less reputable companies will try to find a way to not pay. If the government is the insurer, then there is no such contractual guarantee - just try to get the official contract for Medicare.
And if the only legal source of payment under a single payer system is the government, you don't even have the legal right to say "I don't care what the government says, I want to pay for a hip replacement." You will have to either bribe a congressman or flee the country for treatment.