I know more than a few MD’s and RN’s that believe single payer is worthy. Our Senator McGuire, Congressman Huffman are fighting for single payer.
They funneled money to insurance companies.
Exactly what does that help? Nothing but cronies.
And, when the scamdemic hit, they quickly shutdown much of our healthcare infrastructure.
And they unnecessarily slipped into triage mode, removing "useless eaters" from healthcare facilities, organ donor lists, etc.
The political topic of "Healthcare" for the past 15 years has been about "money" and "death panels". It's only made "healthcare" worse. Because they never cared about healthcare.
All true. I haven’t subscribed to the Bee in years. I used to buy it occasionally to read while eating lunch out by myself. Easy, since it’s the size of a shopping circular these days. Now I don’t do even that so as to symbolically hasten the day of its demise.
One of the articles at the link is on the Bee having more conservative op eds, but I’m unwilling to pay to see the article. Too little to late, hacks of the Bee. The day you go out of business can’t come too soon
govt healthcare
costs spiral out of control
to control costs govt denies service
everybody loses
2. Make purchasing health insurance a crime punishable by jail time.
3. All medical expenses must be paid for in cash.
4. If you don't have the money then get it from family, friends, or charitable agencies.
5. The government is the loaner of last resort and must provide loans at reasonable interest for those who can't pay otherwise.
6. The only cost to government is administering the loans and losses when a person dies before paying off loans.
This system might seem harsh but if every medicine and procedure were paid for out of pocket then everything would tend to be much cheaper and the government bureaucracy would be much less. No one need go into bankruptcy over medical bills and the inspectors can focus on the loans if any criminals try to game the system.
I'm not a libertarian but I think this would appeal to some of them. Also to those who realize that since we can't really put a price on health it really should never have been insurable like cars or homes.
“We see the same effect manifest in the Republican Party when GOP politicians affirm President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him by fraud.”
Can he PROVE this, or did he just pull it out of his ask?
At most, any reporter should be saying nothing more than “unproven allegation”, instead of “lie”...at least until some serious investigation takes place.
Actually, I am of a different mind on this issue.
It would have been much, much better if they had passed this monstrosity.
It would have hastened the utter demise of California Liberal politics.
I wish they had succeeded. That is the greatness of the US, that states can be microlaboratories for their pet policies without dragging everyone else along.
One item never brought up.
If a military retiree opts out of Medicare, that person loses their TRICARE coverage.
Awful lot of military in California.
Read later.