Posted on 11/02/2018 7:47:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
At least a mugger only demands your money or your life. Perry Gershon wants to take both.
In his bid to win New York's 1st Congressional District this November, Gershon has made a big deal out of healthcare reform, calling for Uncle Sam to take control of all medical care in our country.
“We need Medicare for All,” the big-government Democrat Gershon tweeted in June. “Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Single payer healthcare is the only true and cost-effective universal coverage. Let’s fix the ACA and then implement Medicare for All.”
But how would Gershon’s fanciful plan work out in reality?
Healthcare, after all, is a scarce resource that depends on an enormous number of workers -- from doctors and nurses to the truck drivers who deliver medical supplies — all of whom need to be paid. Unable to cope with this basic limitation, a “Medicare for All” scheme in our country will only mirror the horrific conditions of similar healthcare systems all around the globe.
The more those resources are strained, the more quality of care will suffer, causing longer wait lines for every American patient who needs even the most basic form of treatment.
That’s not an exaggeration — it’s a daily reality for people who live in countries like the United Kingdom.
“At some emergency wards, patients wait more than 12 hours before they are tended to,” the New York Times reported earlier this year in an article about the UK’s “overwhelmed” National Health System.
“Corridors are jammed with beds carrying frail and elderly patients waiting to be admitted to hospital wards,” the report continued. “Outpatient appointments were canceled to free up staff members, and by Wednesday morning hospitals had been ordered to postpone nonurgent surgeries until the end of the month.”
Is this what you call a right to healthcare, Mr. Gershon? It sounds more like the right to give up a workday and hang around in an overcrowded waiting room until a nurse has time to come out and inform you that you’re not sick enough to get treatment today.
Let’s hear more about that “cost-effective” part of the deal, though. With all that rationing, it would have to be cheap, right? Indeed, our Democrat friends assure us that “Medicare for All” would be free for average Americans.
That’s a 32.6 trillion dollar lie.
“Medicare for All” won’t just decrease the quality of our healthcare system -- it will bankrupt our society.
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia recently estimated that the plan would cost American taxpayers $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Even doubling income and corporate tax receipts wouldn’t be enough to cover the massive new spending the plan would entail.
"Even though people don't pay premiums, the tax increases are going to be enormous,” explained Kenneth Thorpe, a health policy professor at Emory University and a former health policy adviser in the Clinton administration. “There are going to be a lot of people who'll pay more in taxes than they save on premiums."
Is that what Gershon considers a “cost-effective” approach?
A single-payer healthcare system, it turns out, isn’t really free and it isn’t really healthcare. If Democrats like Gershon get their way, we’ll all pay.
Any health care crap they come up with I want them to sign up with there family first! otherwise F THEM
Now the NHS is forcing people to make group doctor’s appointments. So much for privacy. All of you with hemorrhoids show up at 2 to have a group visit with the doc. Won’t that be fun?
Perhaps the good gentleman would be so kind as to point out the passage in the constitution that lists healthcare as a right. That would imply one is entitled to the labor of another. Democrats don’t seem to have ever had a problem with this, but I find it unacceptable.
AND that ‘Government healthcare for all’ will cost every worker in this country an extra 20% in Fed taxes. THAT might wake them up!
If Congress flips to the Democrats, EXPECT A BILL TO BE PRESENTED FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL.
I’ve already seen the following folks openly supporting it:
Bernie Sanders ( the originator of this foolish idea ).
Alexandra Ocasio Cortes ( no, she hasn’t won yet, but with her district, she will be the next Congress woman. She is a Bernie sanders disciple )
Maxine Waters ( say hello to your next Chair of the House Finance Committee )
Chris Murphy (D-CT), He has a bill prepared
Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) He co-sponsored it
Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) has another plan called MedicareX
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.), have signed on as co-sponsors of Medicare for all plan.
It’s coming folks, all we need is for Dems to take control of Congress. Trump will probably be the only impediment to this. But for how long?
“AND that ‘Government healthcare for all’ will cost every worker in this country an extra 20% in Fed taxes. THAT might wake them up!”
Problem is there are growing masses that pay no taxes, yet demand government benefits. I have said for years that if you are on the dole for any reason, your voting priviledge should be suspended during the period in which you are receiving handouts.
Britain’s National Health Service has 1.3 million employees, the eigth largest employer in the world, and still offers life threatening waits for even basic health care services.
Every GOP administration have as a matte of policy increased the numbers of the “no-skin-in-the-game” crowd. Legal vote buying I guess! Even Trump did this !
I give Romney credit for at least indirectly pointing it out with 47% statement.
In Britain, every worker pays taxes. We need to implement that here so that everyone has skin in the game. I don’t believe that taking away the vote from those living on benefits will ever be implemented in our country. Even most Republicans would think that should be illegal.
I still lean to handling this the way it was at home as a kid, my dad paid the bills and made the rules.
Give everyone one vote and one additional vote for each dollar they actually pay in income taxes.
Those who don’t pay because they are poor will still have a say, those who make so much they pay nothing will be treated accordingly as well.
Those who actually pay will have a proportionate say in how that money gets spent
I used to live in So Calif. I remember in the 70’s, that my neighbor’s across the street were Canadian. He was an aircraft engineer & she was a surgical nurse. She had a sister who used to come to the USA REGULARLY for medical & dental appointments. She paid cash. The wait lines in the 70’s in Canada were months long THEN......
Dem Candidate for governor in Nevada-—Steve Sisolak.
It’s about power and control not healthcare
Naturally
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