Actually, I’m results oriented, and want what will work at the lowest cost. The private sector once knew how to do that, but no more. These days they are fixated on stock prices and short term profits. Greed and today are all current business “leaders” can think about.
I have no interest in “tinkering”. I want to fix it, and not have to worry about it for decades. HR 676, Medicare for All, is a close as we are apt to come, and it is “good enough”. Trying to patch together something so that all of the current “players” get a cut, it not a workable solution. Building an entirely new bureaucracy for this mess, is not efficient, not cost effective. The money spent should go for health care, not for administration.
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Insurance companies have already failed at making health care affordable, so I see no point in including their failed model beyond the fact that they have bribed their way into the process with “campaign contributions”.
]]>Medicare has the same problem, BTW. The lists of what Medicare covers and doesn’t cover are ridiculous. So “Medicare for All” would have the same problem, if we’re talking about simply extending Medicare as vs. creating a new single-payer program that lumps Medicare, Medicaid, and all other care into one big lump like Canada does. For whatever reason the Canada-style solution is not what our legislators decided, probably because they can read the Kaiser Foundation polls just as well as I do and realize that the Swiss-style solution has even more support from the public than Medicare for All does (roughly 3/4ths support vs. 3/5ths support for Medicare for All). I blame decades of right-wing propaganda for the problem. After all, if right-wing propaganda can convince the people of one of the most civilized nations in Europe, the nation of Bach, Beethoven, Nietzsche, to exterminate Jews, then it can certainly convince people to support a regressive system of funding health care where the costs inordinately fall upon the middle class, not the wealthy. So it goes…
– Badtux the Healthcare Penguin
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i guess it’s one of those not-so-insignificant details that the communistic hr 676 is lacking.
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