Universal healthcare - single payer - government “health”care coming over the horizon?
Barack Obama: If you want to keep your healthcare, your doctor, you can.
Obama on refugee refusal: “[Republicans have] been playing on fear in order to try to score political points or to advance their campaigns. And it’s irresponsible. And it’s contrary to who we are. And it needs to stop, because the world is watching.”
Mr President AMERICANS ARE WATCHING!!!!!!!!!!!
Sec of State John Kerry: “It’s inappropriate for Americans to panic.”
‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.’ - supposedly said by Trotsky but disputed he said it all.
Still, the doctors, nurses and other medical practitioners who entered the field for whatever reason can and must become the primary resistors of Obama’s USNHS pipe dream.
Every nation that has socialized medicine declared its intentions openly and the medical types knew what they were getting into. Obama, of course, is too cowardly and devious for such declarations and has instead lied about it all.
The medical professionals never signed up to become bureaucrats but they are now punching in more data than a DMV clerk.
When medicine is politicized, then politics will be about medicine, since we all will need it sooner or later. Politicians know nothing about the subject except it costs money therefore rationing and the usual budget games will be dominated by rhetoric about dialysis machines etc.
Also politically, the Dems dream of a new militant public-sector union comprised of high earners with advanced degrees who will make contributions (read: bribes) and become life-and-death ideological shock troops.
If Sally Scrubs the neonatal nurse doesn’t want to become a government stooge then she had better wise up, put her dry-erase marker down and do something about it.
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“Universal healthcare - single payer - government “healthâ€care coming over the horizon?”
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Yep. My corp has already said they’re going to be looking at public exchanges next year, assuming there are any. That’s after $100/month increases this year.
Potentially, or a ‘two-tiered’ system like those that have developed in most socialist nations. Those who can afford it will pay for higher-level care, those who can't will have the waiting periods and restriction of care that is common in those socialist nations. It will provide less care for the underprivileged than they have been getting in our previous private insurance system.
As far as 0.13 cents on the dollar, this is what physicians and hospitals are used to getting from medicare/medicaid.
six month wait for MRI like in England?
great idea giving everyone access to healthcare for free, even AFTER the fact if they get sick.
i’ve never heard such insanity
Why on Earth would anyone think that as badly as Obamacare sucked, that a single payer system--a fully government-run system--would be better?
Obamacare is pouring gasoline over a burning house...a single-payer system would be the use of dynamite.
Single Payer was the goal from the first. I think I remember even Mrs. Bill saying that way back when.