Posted on 09/12/2018 9:30:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Doctors can refuse to accept Medicare patients.
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Bernie wants to piggy back on Medicare because he knows Americans don’t want to turn their backs on older Americans who have worked their whole lives and paid for this benefit.
Bernie wants to bankrupt the system by opening it to every deadbeat drug addict ...
Free healthcare is an idea only thieves and idiots believe in.
When someone says that we need free healthcare, you should look at them and say,
Only an idiot thinks we can have free healthcare. If you get something for free, it is because somebody else worked for it without reward. It should be called Stolen healthcare.
It still amazes me that people still believe in a free lunch. My recent vacation in Hungary saw a tour guide say that they have free healthcare and education through college. I asked: Don't you mean subsidized healthcare and education. She said no, it's totally free, although you must "qualify" for education. I asked what their tax rates were. She said 40% on income plus a 21% VAT tax. I asked: So you pay 61% of your income in taxes but you claim everything is "free". Her response: Crickets.
RE: Doctors can refuse to accept Medicare patients.
Watch, under Bernie’s bill, THEY MUST or ELSE....
Medicare for All = Single Payer
Climate Change = Globull Warming.
Democrat = Socialist.
That’s why they have Focus Groups.
That's what Bernie is counting on... that we'll fix his horror to save the innocent people who are elderly.
Social Security Disability became the ‘new welfare’ for deadbeats... and democrats intentionally tied it to a program for the blind and truly disabled BECAUSE they knew Americans don't want to throw people who really are disabled on the streets. So we support half of Detroit and most of the South side of Chicago...
It’s not just doctors who would trim back on patient loads...entire clinics and hospitals would see the light...why offer a-through-z services? You’d see rural areas start to shut down bigger hospitals and limited services will be the norm.
Actually the architects of Medicare envisioned that over time Congress would just keep scaling back the eligibility age to the point that private insurance got totally crowded out of the market.
There ARE ways we could stop some of the medical rip offs that go on ... and that would save millions of dollars. The medical system we have now sucks - and needs to have incentives looked at - but it’s still better than what Bernie’s offering.
socialized medicine:
Egalitarianism + medical price & wage controls + bureaucratization =
-increased aggregate demand for and consumption of medical services
-increased total costs, waste, and inefficiency
-decreased supply of doctors = shortages of doctors
-decreased quality and quantity of medical services for each individual patient (rationing & waiting lines)
-decreased value of each individual patient to a provider
-enslavement of doctors
-death panels & aged become sacrificial victims
-decreased technological advances and decreased technological progress in medicine.
Is Betsy, the author, part of the cosmopolitan elite establishment? Why is she calling the ex-POTUS “President” Obama?
...Doctors can refuse to accept Medicare patients.
Or just quit
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The only point to sell people on free.
But it isnt really free if you pay for it with your health and your life.
People have already forgotten Obamacare was a dangerous failure.
Medicare For All is all that and more - on steroids.
“At least in Britain, people are free to buy private insurance and go outside the government system for care. But that’s not true under “Medicare-for-all.” You’d be trapped.”
You could buy care in most of the other ~179 countries of the world, including Canada or Mexico.
Bernie’s the ‘give away the bank’ guy.....who got on the Political bandwagon for job security............
In 1981, 39 yr. old went on the public payroll earning about $33,700 per year as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
In 1991, 8 years later.. he ran for Vermonts lone seat in the House of Rep. ..his salary bumped up to about $96,000.
In 2006, 8 yrs later.. he ran for Senate seat in 2006, where his salary bumped up to $165,000.
For seven years, from 2004 to 2011, his wife Jane was president of tiny Burlington College, where her salary was about $160,000 yrly.
All of the couples assets are in Janes name, and they own a condo in D.C. and a rental property in Vermont.
Standard Medicare works very well except for a few exceptions, such as physical therapy companies that run through patients’ Part B coverage to maximize profits.
Many Medicare eligible people take the option to buy privately-run (and mainly federal government paid for) Medicare Advantage plans that President Bill Clinton made available by signing the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 into law.
Betsy was lieutenant governor under Pataki in NY. She seems to know her stuff. I wouldn’t consider her one of the elites, far from it.
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