Hopefully if we hold Congress we won’t go single payer.
We can go back to free market, presumably with a socialist style safety net.
“We can go back to free market, presumably with a socialist style safety net.”
I don’t want to hear about that “safety net”, until the federal budget is in the black and the deficit is in check...
Why a “socialist-style safety net?” The free market comes with a built-in safety net called the price mechanism. If consumers had complete freedom of choice among individualized, customized health plans, they could pick and choose the plan that suits their needs and pocket book. The elderly don’t need pregnancy coverage; the young don’t need just about anything.
This isn’t rocket science. Stop forcing people to pay for things they don’t need or want. Stop forcing people to pay for things that others need or want. Let’s go back to what was once called hospitalization-—affordable health insurance plans that covered surgeries, broken bones, and babies, and did not cover routine doctor visits and prescription drugs.
I think the minute you bring up that prior-conditions have to be accepted....that’s the point where even the free-market system won’t be able to sustain this at the level that we would expect. Even with single-payer....what you’d eventually find is that people of a rural nature will have basically a clinic in their local area...NOT a hospital. States like Mississippi or Idaho...would probably see at least a quarter of their hospital operations shut down because there is no profit margin to make it worth continuing.
No socialist safety net... just have a 6% tax on services to pay for clinics set up in hospitals to treat non emergencies...
And illegals