Posted on 10/11/2018 3:47:47 PM PDT by caww
Moreover...why would we want it?
Disclaimer: I do not qualify for these benefits so this is based upon reading about the program
If an individual wants to receive basic guaranteed health care from the US government, not a gold-plated program but one that does work though with some waiting list and covers most preexisting conditions then it is readily available to anyone under I think 40-years-old.
Join the military, not the reserves, for four years and qualify for VA benefits.
How about Medicare for none?
When he was running, all the never trumpers on this forum swore he was going to foist single payer on us.
Have you seen what Medicare pays? If you don’t have a secondary, you’re screwed. And, read the fine print. If Medicare refuses a procedure or surgery, the secondary doesn’t want to pay either!
Did President Trump get rid of the Death Panels in DeathCare?
Obama says “you’re better off not having the surgery”
Dems want it for all the illegals they’ve brought in to solidify their votes...and a sure magnet for all the ill people of the world!
Obama has made sure he has the best medical coverage the American people can provide for him for FREE.
Nothings entirely free.....we all have to put our own skin in our health care coverage.
Are you saying you want single payer then?
Yeah, elderly people that have paid into Medicare for Twenty-Forty years, should share it with Eighteen year olds that haven’t worked, or paid a dime into t. INSANITY. Give everyone over Sixty-Five the money they paid into it, With Interest, before you blather about Sharing.
You’re argument for no medicare for anyone is?
The young people today want everything free and believe they are entitled to it....Bernie’s platform of “free” everything drew the college kids because they’re all still living off their folks while in college. They haven’t a clue about economics let alone being out in the world and seeing if they want to have deducted $$$$$$$$ from their checks to pay for those not working.
Maybe if they kill all of the old white people in might work.
Obviously that’s in the Dems plan already....and why they like assisted suicide, euthanasia and abortion. They are only about the healthy, productive and those they can control.
The real reason this country can’t go to a Single-Payor system is COST. If we had done this right after W.W. II like Canada and Western Europe it would have worked, costs were low and those countries now probably do not spend much over 3% GDP.
We are now spending close to 20% GDP. In California the estimated cost to do this was an additional $400 Billion on top of current budget. So you extrapolate that cost nationwide and your talking, my estimate, about $3 to $4 trillion on top of the current budget.
How would you raise that kind of money. Probably and additional payroll Tax or 15 to 20%. That will take even more disposable income out of people’s pockets, for a lot of folks it will squeeze them on basic expenses for living.
We are just past the point of a Single-Payor system unless we find a serious way to collapse Health Care costs 80 to 90%. So let the Democrats explain how they will do this.
Medicare is Like Social Security, no one paid into anything, all you did was pay someone else’s. Those working right naw are paying for those in Medicare.
Medicare is an old age welfare program. Nothing more, nothing less. That’s not a criticism, just a statement of fact. It will be cut substantially when and if the next generation decides it is tapped out and says, “no more.”
Well if you take a look at the countries who have this...including California you’ll find the people hate the care they now get for having it. Plenty of articles about why it’s hated.
Well if you take a look at the countries who have this...including California you’ll find the people hate the care they now get for having it. Plenty of articles about why it’s hated.
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