Posted on 06/21/2017 9:56:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Obamacare repeal debate goes on. We may have a U.S. Senate plan coming out in the next couple of weeks.
Obamacare's implosion is also moving forward: "Iowa's Last Obamacare Insurer Asks For 43% Rate Increase For 2018"! Wasn't this thing called the Affordable Care Act?
The "single-payer" chorus is also singing 24/7. They argue that a "single-payer" program would be good for all concerned or put us on the right side of history, as they love to say.
Here is an idea. Let California become our single-payer test case. It is the only place in the U.S. where there are enough Democrats to pass it and not a single GOP vote that could stop it.
Why not let Governor Brown, Senator Harris, and the rest of California lead the way and prove to us that it is the way of the future?
According to an editorial in the Washington Post, the idea of universal care may turn out to be another one of those liberal dreams that always die when you calculate the potential costs. This is from the editorial:
The single-payer model has some strong advantages. It is much simpler for most people – no more insurance forms or related hassles. Employers would no longer be mixed up in providing health-care benefits, and taxpayers would no longer subsidize that form of private compensation. Government experts could conduct research on treatments and use that information to directly cut costs across the system.
But the government's price tag would be astonishing. When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed a "Medicare for all" health plan in his presidential campaign, the nonpartisan Urban Institute figured that it would raise government spending by $32 trillion over 10 years,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Okay, but with a few guidelines here:
If it fails, we the American Taxpayers do not bail out the State, it’s up to Californians to do that;
If they go bankrupt like Ill. is doing, we the American Taxpayers do not bail them out, it’s up to the people who live in those States to do that...
Do it, California! The middle-class flight will increase to a flood, and your super-rich, super-poor, and illegal alien populations that remain can go under.
That’s what should have happened from Day One.
Let each State figure out their own health care policy.
Vermont tried to go single payer but they couldn’t because of Federal policies!
.... Let California become our single-payer test case...
However, after it quickly fails, it will remain in place in perpetuity as another very burdensome tax drain without Lunatic liberals ever admitting it failed. In fact, they will call it a success. Just like Obamacare.
What happens to out-of-state visitors who need medical help?
Just one of many questions I have, but that will be ignored.
Answer probably is to tax them for every dime they are carrying. Maybe assess them when they enter the state at the ag inspection stations, like posting a bond. Return unused portion when leaving the state, minus handling charge.
See, I could be a demoncrat.
More taxes will drive many from the state. The socialist radicals that are running our state, just raised our gasoline taxes (again, again, again) to pay for their socialist mecca retirement fund (always been unfunded basically) and now they talk about this??? They have no money, and do have much debt.
But not at federal taxpayer expense. California can do as it pleases with California State Tax money. Your state, your vote, your ledge, your problem. Words mean things and votes count.
No, thank you.
Five year moratorium on visiting/transiting California. Let them be a private incubator.
I surely don't want the California rats abandoning their sinking ship and bringing more of their liberal crap to Arizona.
Only conservatives, if there are any left in California, can leave. Need a reliable test: Can they say "MAGA" or "I love Trump" without vaporizing.
And no treatment outside of California if you don’t like the waits and denial of service, even if you can pay for it yourself. Otherwise it would be like having a submarine simulation where you can open the windows when you start running low on air.
California can not pay for it’s own single payer health care program. That’s not how it works. It’s all about leeching the entire country. They would never isolate themselves to their own burden
It’s a stupid idea. California will divert ALL it’s funds to it - they already know it will cost more than their entire budget. Where do you think the money to run the state will come from?
Single-Payer Healthcare Estimated To Cost Nearly Double California’s State Budget
I thought Vermont abandoned the idea of single payer because the state budget there is $4.9 billion a year and single payer would cost an additional $4.6 billion.
No one was going to pay the huge tax increases to fund that hot mess.
I totally agree HarleyLady, I live in CA. and I hope this damned state SINKS beyond repair, it IS the ONLY way anything can ever be done to get it back on the right track!!! I am here because of my elderly mom as soon as she passes I AM GONE!!!! Businesses are continuing to flee and I look to see in the very near future the tech industry to bail the state also!!! Tech industry employees can’t find places to live that are affordable VERY SOON the industry WILL BE taxed so high they will bail also!!! Only people left in the state will be illegal immigrants on the state gravy train!!! Nice weather BUT that is it!!!! Feel like I am living in Mexico already!!!
They’re asking for a 15% state income tax increase to pay for it. Watch everyone with any money at all leave in droves if they pass it. We’re getting our house ready to sell right now in case they do.
That math doesn’t work. I’d leave now, before the storm. You’ll get more for your house now rather than later.
Sheana real estate values in this state are sky high RIGHT NOW, don’t wait for taxes to go up rest assured THEY WILL, SELL NOW!!!!
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