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 ...
That’s the problem. I don’t want to leave and will do so only if we have to.
Let’s not!
California going bankrupt could take down the entire economy.
I really wish Vermont would have been the guinea pig.
We could have easily absorbed that.
See #21
let California be a separate nation....
The separate nation idea is ludicrous just for the defense and national security implications. What would happen is that the sovereign country of California would implode, turn into Mexico of the north and eventually be a colony of China. It needs to break apart by political and social demographics although the net gain on Senators would probably be libtard.
I have been to emergency rooms a dozen times in the last 4 years. There is no shortage because hospitals don’t turn people away and they treat common aliments in the emrgency room. Most hospitals have 24/7 clinics and they re full o illegals. People in CA are getting seen, The problem is the cost t the taxpayers wen illegals get free services.
Yes, I’m with you on that.
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