Posted on 06/18/2018 2:42:35 PM PDT by Ennis85
One of the top issues for U.S. voters is health care. There is a simple solution most of the world is smart enough to recognize but is lost on us: a single-payer system.
There are two compelling reasons for a single-payer system. The first is the moral argument that health care security is a right for all of us. The second is a little more complicated, and that is health care economics. Sadly, most Americans do not understand this aspect of the health care debate and how it adversely affects them.
Anthem announced its first-quarter profits to be $1.31 billion. The reason for the increase from the previous quarter was lower medical costs. The couple who had their claim denied for the helicopter ambulance might find this interesting as well as the numerous people who had claims for emergency room visits denied.
If you have private insurance, approximately 70 percent of the premiums go to provide health care and 30 percent go to the overhead costs of the insurance company to include profits which they enhance by denying claims like yours. If we had a single-payer system, the overhead costs would be less than 5 percent, and 95 percent would go to actual medical care. The Republican Party, which is owned by the insurance companies, calls this socialism. I call it good economics.
The advocates for insurance companies argue that we cannot pay for this. I would argue that we already are. In fact we pay double what many countries pay for less beneficial outcomes.
Finally, the Republicans passed a huge tax cut for American businesses so that we could better compete with foreign companies. Imagine how much better our companies could compete if they did not have to pay for their employees' health care insurance. Their foreign competitors don't.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Single payer without competition spells disaster.
They don’t care they only care about costs. Health care will go into the crapper
Actually, I am 77 and am being prepped for treatment of an aortic aneurism in a state of the art facility in Calgary being treated by a top notch Cardiovascular surgeon with an innovational non-invasive procedure that is not available in the USA.
Even the “designers” of Obamacare knew it would fail but the “win” would be the idiotic people who support it and spread the lies of its necessity and greatness.
Your health care is YOUR responsibility
NOT the doctor
Provide evidence that “Canadians” wait up to 12 months for a heart operation....treatment is based on urgency...do some research before you post opinion as facts..Canada life expectancy 2017...82.2 years...USA 79.3 years..as far as heart treatment is concerned...Canadians older and skinnier...Americans younger and fatter
This is the broken window fallacy, failing to take in teh hidden costs.
This is the broken window fallacy, failing to take into account the hidden costs.
Okay, let me see how Alfie Evans feels about Single Payer Medicine — oh wait, the British Medicine Board MURDERED him...
The most telling of the Canadian system in the article:
“According to Don Drummond, an economist appointed by Ontario’s Liberal government to help fix its finances, Canada’s largest province is projected to see health-care costs soar to the point where they will consume 80 percent of the entire provincial budget by 2030, up from 46 percent in 2010.”
Unlike the rosy picture Single Payer advocates paint, actual economics still applies. A free market will give you the best price or a service. Everyone that says differently is wrong, and if they are an economist, they are lying.
I found the initial analysis incredible (wrong) when they talked about overhead savings. Socialism always packs in the overhead, not the actual service. Socialism does not work as well as a free market, same as above.
DK
Based on what evidence or are you just rendering your opinion......
Sure...the Soviet model is always the most efficient.
What? Aren’t you saving $200 a year? :-)
Screw the thieving, fascist health insurance companies. Make people pay for healthcare out of their pockets, and healthcare costs will fall 90% overnight. Make these thieving quacks and hospitals post their prices for every procedure. Capitalism will fix high prices.
I pay cash for healthcare, and the leftist-controlled hospitals charge me 200 to 400% more than they charge patients with insurance. Leftist hospitals and leftist insurance companies work hand-in-hand to destroy the middle class.
Support what? That the OP posted a “barf alert”? That it is a good idea to understand the arguments given in support of SP? How can you counter an argument if you don’t know the argument? How can you pick apart their errors unless you have examined the issue in detail? You need to learn how to comprehend what people write.
Sure it would,now get list moron.
What did you learned, of value, from this thread?
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