“What Obamacare will be like in 25 years or sooner.”
If people want “free healthcare” we should give it to them. In fact, I think the best way to fix the private healthcare system is to divide medicine into two groups - people who pay, and people who do not pay.
Right now, as one system, the people who do not pay are destroying the system for people who pay - through increasing cost. Without Obama care.
Private insurance costs so much, in large part, because non-payers, including those on medicaid/medicare off load their costs onto people who do pay - whether through insurance or cas. So things cannot, and will not stay the same - regardless of whether obama care is repealed.
Free the private healthcare system from carrying the costs for people who do not pay, and you will get a system that is better and more affordable.
Those who can’t or won’t pay will be in the public system - and will get what the “public” decides to fund for them. They’ll wait in line much like the story of the Canadian system.
The rest will get what they pay for.
The takeaway for this story is not about Canadian Public Healthcare, it’s the success of the concept of private clinics - the deficiencies of the public healthcare system encourage those who can to seek private care.
That is how you encourage people to become insured.
Excellent and I agree completely. The move to “force” coverage is anti-American.
We use force on criminals and the insane, not free people.
The current hybrid system is the problem. Is anyone moving toward this bifurcated system in the current Congress? Rand Paul?