Not if the Medicare for all portion of a multiplan option is paid for by the subscribers directly just like a BC/BS plan.
It won't be. And that's not just rheortic. I see people on food stamps or medicaid coming to be seen by doctors while talking on an iphone or wearing $200 shoes, etc. Everyone in the medical field has seen this. People are on food stamps buy driving a lexus. Really?
The healthcare for a vast portion of society will become paid for by another portion of society.
On top of that, medicare is bankrupt, it won't be fixed by adding millions more people.
no matter what either side proposes the other will reject. Sad but true.
Maybe, but I don't think so. No effort for compromise has been made by either side and neither is willing too. But there is always a middle. Look at medicare and SS, both of which are "hated" in today's society. When the bills were put forth, both passed with over 80% of congressmen voting in favor, gop and dems both voted for it in droves.
Healthcare (IMO Buckeye) is a right.
I hate to pick on you podfather because you are so often right on so many things. But it is fine for you to have whatever opinion you want, just realize your opinion is based solely on emotion and not on fact or logic.
The American rights impose no obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want -- not to be given it without effort by somebody else. The right to life, e.g., does not mean that your neighbors have to feed and clothe you.
Literally and in theory, health care cannot be a right. Do you feel access to food should be a right? Surely everyone deserves to eat.
While everyone blames each other the companies and CEOs make huge profits while denying care and cutting our fees.
Just class warfare. I 100% agree that insurance needs to be reform/regulated better. People should not be dropped because they get sick, etc. But let us not forget what insurance is really for. It's for costs that you cannot incur yourself. Imagine what car insurance would cost if you expected All-State to pay for your oil change, new tires, etc. It would be out of control. Life expectancy has increased drastically over the years yet no one wants to pay for it.
What is a family to do if the wife finds a lump in her breast and they have have a 5,000/deductable, credit cards maxed to pay for a family of four, and the hospital wants cash up front? She has to wait until it metastasizes then go to the ER. What costs us more?
Read my previous post. Let the gov't run the hospitals. Cancer, life threatening car injuries, etc. can be covered by the gov't. Consider it a gov't backed catastrophic policy. It is not my ideal plan but I would consider that a fair compromise. Do you think the gov't would be treating non-life threatening conditions (bloody noses, etc.) in an ER for patients that don't want to go to a doctor? Nope, and thus those patients would be forced to utilize less healthcare or pay for what they want.
