Exactly-—Medicaid is nothing more than ‘SINGLE PAYER’
Exactly. We purchase our own healthcare and there is good stuff out there for decent prices.
Yes, let’s compare health insurance to car insurance. If a car insurance company tried.to set up a network of preferred repair “providers”, and said providers charged people different prices for the same service based on what insurance they have, they’d be sued and/or prosecuted under existing law, and they’d lose. Not a.hypothetical, BTW, this actually happened.
Nobody takes away anyone's free s**t... apparently it's become a birthright.
“Where is the moral justification for forcing me to pay for things for other people that they are unwilling to pay for themselves?”
It’s too bad that the majority of Republicans in congress don’t even discuss this issue. They accepted the premise of democrats: health insurance is a right and it should be guaranteed for everybody.
More people on “wellfare” aside, how anybody of sane mind can look at the Post Office, TSA, Veterans Administration or you-name-the-govt-run-program and think that turning your health/life over to govt decisions and management is a good idea...just mind-boggling
Your logic is why you rejected the RAT party. The parasites and their proponents are destroying our western civilization.
You’re thinking too much like the founding fathers. That’s subversive.
“My question exactly: Why should I pay for someone else’s health care? Should I also pay for a flat screen TV for them? How about a nicer car? Maybe I should pay for their beer, cigarettes, pot, scratch off lotto tickets and food as well.”
You already do. But as a taxpayer I expect those that take our money and redistribute it have oversight and punish those that abuse it.
Insurance is a share pool where pooled resources pay for each other’s health care. If you want to self insure, be my guest.
Democrats knew if they passed a medical plan into law that gave out subsidies and free health insurance republicans would never have the guts to take away the handouts.
And the gutless republicans are proving them to be correct.
President Trump needs to make an announcement: “Repeal and get out.”
The government has no business running health care any more than running car insurance.
Turn it back to to the private sector.
I think she’s off base on a lot of things in the article except one; there is nothing that the government can do concerning health care insurance that will not make the matter worse. So the GOP should repeal Obamacare completely, explain to the voters that it was a disaster to begin with and that they will be working with the insurance industry to allow them to develop insurance options that will provide better coverage options at a cheaper cost.
The problem is that “nothing” would be a free-market system in health care, but repealing Ocare does not give us a free market. It leaves us with the buggered up marked created by all the other health care legislation and regulation that is on the books.
Obama gave exemptions to millions. Couldn’t Trump give exemptions to EVERYONE? Wouldn’t that effectively shut down this nonsense?
The US government doesn’t belong in the INS business
This nation survived over 200 years without government healthcare...now all of the sudden getting rid of it would be the end of the world.
Why should somebody be placed into indentured servitude with legal compulsion to provide other people these "rights"? Our Founding Fathers knew better and would be running for their muskets!
Obviously, our current rulers and their willing parasitic voters think otherwise but they hold the political power.
“Why should I pay for someone else’s health care?”
To cleanse our national conscience, we need to offer a base level of healthcare for everyone. You wouldn’t object to my “base healthcare” plan but it be way too stingy to become law.
I don’t believe we need any national health care program as long as we continue Medicare, making sure at least most of the employee contributions go to that fund and not the general fund.
Then provide a reasonable safety net for the poor, including the low wage working segment, a non-tax fund for catastrophic cases, and the freedom for any insurance company to service across any state line.
Further, the safety net for the poor has gotten out of hand and is more than a Cadillac plan. It needs to be scaled back to more of a Chevrolet plan.
At this moment, IMO, Medicaid insurance is the best in the nation, far better than mine, and I have a good one.
Get rid of Obamacare and set us free.
I’m heading for Medishare... Both replace bills had billions of taxpayer dollars in direct payments. Medishare is galt.