Posted on 11/08/2013 7:43:10 AM PST by JustSurrounded
I believe it all ready exists and is named Medicare. The Center for Medicare Services(CMS) has workable IT systems that aid in processing eligibility and administering the program in conjunction with contracted private insurance companies.
To usher in Soviet Union style doctoring.
Wait unil January, when the medcial insurance claims fall into the black hole called Obamacare. No payments.
It’s designed to fail. Those who will enroll have a strong reason for putting up with the hassle... pre-existing conditions or no other way to get coverage. The healthy don’t have this incentive and certainly don’t want increased premiums. What happens when healthy people fail to enroll and you only get hard-to-insure customers you can’t refuse? You get a negative risk pool for the insurance companies and America fundamentally transforms its healthcare model.
Single Payer - go to the DMV and get a dose of what your healthcare will be like. Deal with the rude, arrogant, Big Bro goons and that’s the environment your healthcare will become. In other words, you will become a slave/pawn of the government to do with as they wish.
Single-payer is the simple and only solution left in the bag....however, there are some amusing issues.
You have to set Medicare-pricing limits on just about everything, and hospitals and doctors are very determined that this not go into effect. It’d trigger a large segment of folks to just say they’ve done enough in life, and retire early.
Added to this is the problem of denying people procedures. It’s also a part of single payer. But the nifty deal is that we will sue in court...claim damages....and bankrupt the system in less than eight years.
With Plan A and Plan B out of action....it’s hard to say where we go then.
No, they couldn’t figure it out in the three yea... scratch that, 3 MONTHS they had to set it up
Remember, the Feds were never going to be making a site until after the Court ruled the States didn’t have to expand Medicaid. And even after that they didn’t want to let all the Republicans know exactly what needed to go into the law.
Plus, you have to remember that much of the systems problems come not from the website they designed, but instead because said website much contact computer systems from a bunch more organizations (IRS, Medicare/Medicaid, etc) - some of which are more then 20 years old!
Lastly, remember this is a party that is still too dumb to realize increasing the MinWage merely costs people jobs and raises the cost of living. They are like a moron trying to run thru a wall and getting knocked on their rear, but still getting up to try it a second, third, forth, fifth and on and on, time
To think this is intentional one needs to assume they are smart enough to pull it off - despite all evidence we have indicating they can merely come up with theories they believe will work but never take into account the millions of variables or peoples tendencies in a logical way.
At this point, the only thing we have evidence of them doing at a high level is their being able to bus people to voting booths pretty well, or fill out phoney ballots on behalf of others. Everything else they do always ends in an epic fail (see Detroit for the most glaring example)
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I have a different take, to get all the retirees money back into the system out of savings. a insurance failure would cause cash and savings to be used to pay the medical bills.
control over who lives and who dies and who suffers.
As I understand it, feds aren't adding service at this point, they're just a gateway to existing services with subsidies rolled in. Send the paper forms on to the selected insurance company for entry. Or even better, once you've picked a plan, enroll with that insurer directly.
It seems they made it way more complicated than it needed to be.
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