Democratic front runner Elizabeth Warren supports Medicare for All, but at the #DemDebate refused to answer questions about what it will cost! Here are facts about single payer she probably doesn’t want you to know: pic.twitter.com/f0F8JIE1XS
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) October 17, 2019
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The 2nd amendment is a RIGHT! If healthcare is a right, would not food, transportation, housing the basic necessities of life? Where does it stop? When do people become responsible for their own selves? Their own actions? When a white commercial box truck purposefully runs over people in an act of terrorism, why was there no screams to ban the trucks? Yet, every time a gun is involved in anything they blame the gun?
When do people become responsible for themselves? When government dissolves. Soooo, never.
Price transparency, which was on Trumps 2016 campaign platform, would be a good start. It disappeared after he took office.
As most things did.
I guess everyone’s already forgotten about Obama’s “death panels” to grant or deny treatment to elderly or potentially terminal patients.
I sometimes wonder when I hear all the democrat candidates promise Medicare for all, and further promise to get rid of all private health insurance companies, if that means that they too will receive Medicare, or will they continue to get their gold-plated health insurance from a private health insurance company while all the proles stand in long lines awaiting their “turn”. Me thinks that our “betters” will receive the finest of “hellthcare” while we common proles suffer.
When you’re sick, you don’t care who’s paying.
Mary Christine is right that step one should be price transparency. Also, the price should be the price no matter who is paying it. If an insurance company can settle an invoice for $10,000, the consumer shouldn’t be sent a (fake) bill showing the cost to be $100,000 (which scares the consumer into paying through the ass for insurance). Karl Denninger says that the already-existing Robinson-Patman Act already prohibits the kind of disparate pricing that we see. If he’s right, the DOJ could just announce that they’re going to enforce it. Congress has been unwilling to act to end disparate pricing. A lot of dems want the current system to implode so that we’ll get Single Payer. A lot of congress people from both parties are beholden to the insurance companies – who like things as they are.
The reason we’re headed toward Single Payer is because Congress, the president & DOJ have been unwilling to fix what we have now.