Posted on 07/23/2017 1:16:15 PM PDT by Libloather
The Democratic Party will consider proposing a single-payer health insurance system, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said.
“We’re going to look at broader things [for the nation’s health care system.] Single-payer is one of them,” Schumer said to ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” Sunday.
The top Democrat in the Senate added that single-payer is among a number of health insurance options.
“Many things are on the table,” Schumer said. “Medicare for people above 55 is on the table. A buy-in to Medicare is on the table. Buy-in to Medicaid is on the table.”
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Before you get single payer you have to repeal Obamacare and the Dems won’t vote for that.
The intent of Obamacare was for it to fail and single-payer to be imposed as the simpler alternative.
It’s not Single Payer, it’s socialized medicine. Ask people who want it if they want the courts deciding whether your child would live or die, whether they want the government refusing care to their mother or father because they are too old.
So what is wrong with Obamacare in Chuck’s opinion? Sounds like some truth finding its way out.
Try finding a doctor who accepts Medicaid. What good is coverage if no one accepts it?
Everything government touches becomes astronomically expensive.
“Single payer” is a euphemism for every penny of health care expenditures to be funneled through the sticky fingers of government.
Any questions?
Bingo
“Everything government touches becomes astronomically expensive...”
So true. Look at higher ed - once the federal government got involved in loans, tuition skyrocketed everywhere.
Please stop calling it “single payer” and call it what it is, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. The government owns the person from cradle to grave and has ultimate authority on whether or not you will be treated or left to die....all for the “common good.”
Open to?! It is what they have been driving to get for years!
What a surprise. That has been the goal for 15 or 20 years, at least.
Hey Schmuckie
Want to see single pay socialized medicine, look at England and a Judge making a decision on that child’s life, he just said no.
The Democratic Party, by proposing a single-payer health insurance system, continues its propensity for failed policies and ideas that sound simple and fair, and are anything but.
Corruption, incompetence, uncontrolled costs, death panels, limited options, and a host of destructive effects doom such programs to failure.
"From you according to your ability, to you according to your need." But needs are infinite.
The Rats are trying to couple single payer with Medicare. When they say “Medicare for all.” we should be saying no it’s going to be “VA care for all”.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
With all due respect to Sen. Schumer, he continues to distinguish himself as an excellent example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.
From related threads …
Sen. Schumer ignores that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
If Sen. Schumer actually respected the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, then he should be rallying Congress to successfully propose a healthcare amendment to the Constitution to the states, something that he and his colleagues wrongly ignored doing when they passed unconstitutional Obamacare. (Note that the states are not obligated to ratify any proposed constitutional amendment.)
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the swamp (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the swamp in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Yeah, can’t wait for Big Brother to tell me I can’t seek a better choice outside of the system.
Charlie Gard can be our motto.
So we can pay endless lawyer fees to argue with black robed tyrants about which of us should be allowed to live?
No thanks, Schmucky, take your single payer and shove it.
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