Posted on 08/06/2017 10:31:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every few years, the media gets low on ammo and decides they’re going to make a collective push to talk about bringing a single-payer healthcare system to the United States. And every few years, people who understand economics and business have to point out to them that it won’t work. This is one of those times.
What is Single-Payer Healthcare, Anyway?
When a term gets used so frequently for so long, it’s easy for there to be some misunderstanding. While the idea of single-payer healthcare gets thrown around a lot, would you be surprised that many people don’t even understand what it is? This results in confusion, misguided statements, and clouded judgment. So let’s clear this little issue up before systematically pulverizing the idea into a million pieces.
Single-payer national healthcare -- or “Medicare for all,” as Senator Bernie Sanders calls it -- is a system in which a single public organization or government entity finances healthcare for the entire population of a country, while the delivery of the care remains in private hands.
Quickly pause for a second and just think about that. Under a single-payer system, the government -- a convoluted, bureaucratic, slow-as-molasses, doesn’t-understand-how-to-spend-money organization of bickering career-politicians -- is tasked with financing healthcare for all. Okay… moving on.
Under a single-payer system, every American would have all “medically necessary” services and costs covered. This would include doctor visits, hospital stays, emergency room visits, preventative care, cancer treatment, dental, vision, and prescription drugs.
The money to support medical expenses of American citizens would be funded by implementing what proponents call a modest tax on the public. There would be no deductibles or premiums and almost every household would save money.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Every man is mortal. Every man is merely more mortal under single payer. But the single payer is not mortal and the system likes that.
A single payer system will, indeed, work just as it is intended to work. It is the definitive crossover to a fully controlling central bureaucracy and rule by a permanent oligarchy.
And far better than HMOs is the Government being totally removed from the fields of Medicine and Insurance. Costs would decline precipitously and Medical Insurance would become actual Insurance again instead of a prepay plan for medical care that also pays the livings of countless bureaucrat and insurance careers.
A single payer system will solve healthcare problems like legalizing pot will solve economic problems.
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