Posted on 01/12/2017 5:24:39 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Those stories don’t fit the narrative.
then they will be extremely happy when market-base reforms bring their bill way down
No matter what happens, somebody will benefit and somebody will be hurt. We can’t focus in on one or the other without skewing reality. We need to look at the overall picture.
A similar problem is electric cars. On the face of it they seem like a good idea. But when you consider the ecological damage done to mine the materials and the long term disposal, meaning the entire lifecycle, they are overwhelmingly a bad decision.
Any socialization of anything will favor one group at the expense of others. The marketplace approach is the only one that guarantees a fair price to all. The problem comes in when you say, well what if somebody can’t pay that price?
It would be interesting to hear from some of these patients on just what kind of "healthcare" they're receiving. Is it timely? Is it effective? Is it affordable? What do they pay, if anything at all?
I think you’re absolutely right, but I’m not sure then that people who hate Obamacare will be satisfied that it is really gone.
They're back already. Our local Gannett newsrag has published at least four features on local homelessness since election day!
Thank You Gaffer, perfectly explained what happened to my dad.
He said the they were going to do the Democrats a service by repealing it.
Providing health care for poor people under the age of 65 should be cheap and effective and it would be if we STOPPED pretending we're not paying now.
We are paying now.
Poor people get care at Emergency Rooms - the most expensive way possible to get care.
Use what's already comfortable for the poor but make it affordable. Siding scale, incentives not to overuse (easy to set up) and a computerized way of diagnosis that could make this system the standard of care world wide.
Providing health care for poor people under the age of 65 should be cheap and effective and it would be if we STOPPED pretending we're not paying now.
We are paying now.
Poor people get care at Emergency Rooms - the most expensive way possible to get care.
Use what's already comfortable for the poor but make it affordable. Siding scale, incentives not to overuse (easy to set up) and a computerized way of diagnosis that could make this system the standard of care world wide.
Oh, and not 'use' emergency rooms - but that concept... maybe right next door to already used Emergency rooms.
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