His tax plan is good. But he DOES support single-payer and just reiterated it. That makes him a total non-starter.
Just ONCE I’d like hear someone advocate my health plan, which is as follows:
“You pay for your own goddamned health care and I’ll pay for mine.”
Hank
I would totally agree with you, except for the fact that the government, at all levels, has it's greedy corrupt hands in every aspect of medicine and health care.
Some I didn't use to mind supporting(investing in)via taxes.
The CDC, FDA,various experimental medical/drug research projects etc, that were supposed to benefit everyone, but never seem to cut any consumer level costs.
Have you checked out the price of Insulin?
One would think it should be about the cost of OTC aspirin by now, and yet it is not.
And let's look at Medicare.It was supposed to take older and high risk/unhealthy people off insurance rate books, so as to not drive up the costs of basic insurance costs for everyone else.
Remember that program? Pay a little bit every paycheck your whole working life, betting that you might need it later on?
There's even a line on every pay stub I have for that!
Medicaid was supposed to be in lieu of state/county/local charity care for the most destitute of people for basic medical care. Not for foreign illegal aliens who need kidney dialysis or open heart surgery.
Not for the people who just didn't want to pay a walk-in clinic medical provider $50 for a non-emergency exam, for common health care needs, like a bout of strep throat.
And it was always funded by state/county and local taxes. Varied by State.Then the Feds got into the act.
Hank, you and I NEVER paid ONLY for our own healthcare.
It just wasn't such a huge deal, until the States and Feds decided to force everyone to pay even more out of pocket premiums and deductibles, on top of what we were all already paying, to increase funding to the medical insurance industry and State and local government regulators(revenuers).
No, I'm not for “single payer”.
An accounting of funds already paid would be nice, though.
As would requiring published price lists from all medical providers.