Posted on 02/19/2020 2:06:06 PM PST by jazusamo
The fact that passing Obamacare eliminated several hundred thousand hospital beds and several hundred thousand nursing staff will never be mentioned by a single news outlet or "Blue Ribbon Panel" looking at why the response is insufficient.
That makes sense. We all know that government provides better services than private enterprise and does so more cheaply. Just look at the prompt service from the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the quality of IRS care.
Anyone with experiential knowledge of medicare billing knows this isn’t true. People who pay zero use the most significant amount of and icredibly expensive type of healthcare.
I just completed a “study”. That study finds that the reported study is “absolute BS”.
By killing those over 65
“...”EDU-Care”, a reduced college Education cost program...”
Great idea Uncle! Universal Edu-care as higher education is a right. All universities will be required to reduce tuition and fees in 5 years to reach 25% of the poverty level of a family of four (currently $26200) of $6550/yr or $17.95 per day which is approximately 2.5 hours of working at the federal minimum wage. This will allow the end of the student loan program saving people trillions of dollars, and allow people to work and study without worrying about their next meal or eating dog food. Think of the savings; I am sure the professorial class would love to have full classrooms and work for reduced wages so that others may pursue their dreams. After all, they got where they are on the shoulders of others.
There should be criminal penalties for lying in studies designed to promote a political agenda. Put these propagandists pretending to be researchers into hard labor.
Israel has universal health care. Why would it be so bad for the US?
I used to be onboard with the free market health care rhetoric. But too many bad experiences with insurance companies have made me less ideological
For starters, Israel has a smaller, homogeneous (through religions,) demographic. It does not have open borders with thousands of new health care clients pouring into its country daily. Israel has a geography much more condensed than the U.S., resulting in more health care facilities per capita than the U.S. Lastly, and totally beyond my desire to research, I suspect that very serious health concerns of wealthy Israeli patients are addressed in the U.S.
So you don’t deny that universal health care can work - as I’ve been told it works in Israel. You simply offer seat of the pants speculation on why it couldn’t work here based on different population factors, and size. I’m not persuaded that a program couldn’t be tailored to account for most of those differences
But at least you’re recognizing that health can be delivered in a satisfactory way through a system where private insurance companies are allowed to siphon off a huge percentage of payments for overhead and profits. I’ve heard good things about Israel’s universal coverage plan; also Australia’s and Germany’s. I’ve heard it from people who’ve lived there and people who visited. One common observation: nobody goes broke from healthcare costs. Can’t be said about US
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