The 5 Questions Everyone Should Ask About Single-Payer Health Care

Townhall.com ^ | May 11, 2019 | Hal Scherz

[where's_the_Outrage?]

6. Will congress be part of the “all” and have to use it like the rest of us?

[ScottinVA]

And let’s not forget... only Biden has said it openly, but the dems way to cut the 20 million illegals in on the Medicare-for-all action, too.

[ScottinVA]

way=want

[KarlInOhio]

The only way Medicare has been able to survive as it is has been to shift costs to non-Medicare patients. If everyone is on Medicare there is no one lrft to shift the cost to.

[odawg]

I don’t know how the term “single payer” got to be the name applied to socialized, government run health care. Very few people know what it refers to, what it is, that it will cost them severely in taxes, and that it is a failed system wherever it is tried.

All people gather is that it is “free.”

[PIF]

6. Will congress be part of the “all” and have to use it like the rest of us?

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Nominally likely but ... politicians and the ultra rich will find a way to exempt themselves not open to anyone else.

[gattaca]

BMP

[Kozak]

No. This plan outlaws all private health care. So, if you had to wait six months for an operation in America, your only other option would be leaving the country. Socialism acolytes on Capitol Hill like Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, who are themselves millionaires, could afford that. But their repressive plan will leave millions of desperate patients behind and prosecute physicians who dare defy the system.

No need for them to leave. The connected elite will have ready access to the finest healthcare quickly. No Politburo member ever had to wait in line....

[Kozak]

Medicare, Medicaid for all...

FIFY

[joethedrummer]

There’s really only 1 question:

Do I really think our government knows how to run the healthcare system better than those in the healthcare industry?

-or has government meddling been a lot of the problem which gave us the mess we have?

[neverevergiveup]

"All people gather is that it is “free.”

If that is what they believe, they are too clueless to vote.

[Deplorable American1776]

If you want to keep your doctor, run for Congress, since the elites will keep theirs.

[Vigilanteman]

Do I really think our government knows how to run the healthcare system better than those in the healthcare industry?

Fact: They are so incompetent that they currently pay medicare supplement plans $800 per patient per month for admin costs. This is why you see massive amounts spent on advertising by these plans every November when they come up for renewal. This is why these plans can currently throw in lots of cute little perks like free gym memberships for their members.

[G Larry]

Single Payer means:

Longer waits for testing and treatment,

Denied access to testing and treatment,

Fewer doctors willing to work under wage controls,

Higher costs via increased taxes,

Treatment denied to seniors based upon soulless cost/benefit analysis.

[Stevenfo]

I thought Biden was the only sane Dem in their field. Now he says illegals deserve healthcare. He is as crazy as the rest of them. Trump looks golden compared to any Dem.

[NTHockey]

“Visit any doctor or hospital, get care whenever you want, not need to worry about cost, because everything will be covered”.

Haven’t we heard this song before?

[super7man]

As soon as the Government owns healthcare, it owns everything in your life.
What you eat, what you drink, where you go, how you exercise, and on and on. EVEN your mental health.

If you do not do what they say and even think what they want, you will be denied healthcare.

“Hmmm.... Mr. Smith, I see that you have donated to the Republicans. This is a mental health issue we are going to have to deal with before we can treat your cancer.”

[P.O.E.]

“Single Payer” is a misnomer.

“Taxpayers Payer” is more like it.

[super7man]

Government control ALWAYS results in shortages of a commodity. Because government control is price control and the legislators constituents will always want below market cost treatment. The Congress will always give in.