Yea, I was on Obama’s website yesterday, checking out his policies, and under healthcare, it says “ The plan will cover all essential medical services”. The word ‘essential’ jumped out at me. Who decides? That’s what I don’t get about rank and file libs. I get how power monger elitists like leftism...they want to rule. But why do rank and file hippies want to sign their life over to the big bad gubmint?Makes no sense.
IMHO, one of the goals of universal care will be the ability to pull the plug...at the doctor’s discretion...It’s a money thing. Buyer beware!!
“Yea, I was on Obama’s website yesterday, checking out his policies, and under healthcare, it says “ The plan will cover all essential medical services”. The word ‘essential’ jumped out at me. Who decides?”
Doesn’t really matter. Socialized medicine works this way. First, you develop a budget for healthcare. This budget includes all the essential services. The budget allocates funds for each essential service. The budget is not a projection of how many services of that type is required, it is based upon what the government can afford to pay. When you need a service, it will be provided if funds are available. If no funds, then no service and you have to wait on new funds.
Insurance works this way. You have a contract with the carrier to provide a service. The availability of funds doesn’t matter, the carrier must provide the service if the service is determined to be necessary by your physician.
Too many people think that universal health care will be like insurance only paid by the government and forget that the government will only pay for the services in it’s health care budget.