[reaganaut1]

We know this, but it's helpful to have the NYT say so. The ads write themselves -- the Democrats want to abolish your health insurance.

[Jeff Chandler]

What could possibly go wrong?

[goldstategop]

Single payer works fine for the poor.. state covers the bulk of my living and health management costs.

Doesnt mean every one needs it. The saying about one size fits all comes to mind.

[arthurus]

Abolish government regulation of medical insurance beyond contract and truth in packaging. That would go a long way to reducing costs. Remove the Feds entirely from medicine and insurance and watch costs drop like a stone. If the government were to severely sanction countries that clone US patent meds unless they are sold at generic prices and watch prices of new drugs come way down as the rest of the world begins to have to pay its share of development costs.

Alas, governments are unfamiliar with common sense.

[Cubs Fan]

Insurance companies out of business and thousands, perhaps millions of insurance company employees laid off. That alone would be a huge problem.

[ExTexasRedhead]

What better way for the DemonRATs to decide who lives and who dies than controlling who gets care and what kind of care???? Cancer patients will be given a pill just as Zero described. Anyone want to count on AOC, Ilhan, Spartacus Booker, Camel Harris, Schitt, Schmucky, Piglosi, ChiFi; Madd Maxine, Abrams, et al. to determine what care you get?

Comments anyone?

[Grimmy]

What we need is absolute equality in health provision.

If someone has an operation, everyone must have that operation.

If someone gets a prescription, everyone must get that prescription.

If someone has a medical procedure of any kind, everyone must have that medical procedure of that kind.

Only then will there be Medical Justice!

[rbg81]

And health insurance would be just the start. They’d move on to other things until everything private is criminalized. Even a lemonade stand run by kids. And instead of a profit motive, these Public entities would make decisions based on criteria such as diversity and social justice. This is slowly happening in corporate America on its on, but at a pace not face enough to satisfy the Left.

And forget about being an entrepreneur. That will not be allowed. You’ll never see another Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. The best and brightest must aspire to being bureaucrats.

[rockinqsranch]

Rather than abolish medical insurance we should abolish Democrats. It would be more productive, and more progressive as then we could.

[LostInBayport]

start fresh with a single government-run insurer that would cover everyone on the planet who comes here.

edited for truth

[mylife]

Just lost my job and health insurance.

Doc wants a CT scan, open imaging says yer insuracnce will pay but your deductible is $450.

If you pay cash it’s $150

Charlatans!!!

[Sarah Barracuda]

And that is what the commie left wants..the total destruction of our private health care so THEY end up deciding who lives and who dies..Oh I see you are a registered Republican and you need hip replacement surgery, yeah that’s not gonna happen

[Alberta's Child]

"Health insurance" barely even meets even the most simple objective definition of insurance ... so the NYT's point here is moot.

[djpg]

The abortionists argue that women should have a right to their own bodies. With socialized medicine (“single payer” is a leftist euphemism) the government controls all of our bodies.

[faithhopecharity]

the last thing the sheeple need is for their master-government to dictate their health care, telling us when we may and when we may NOT obtain medicines or surgeries or nursing we need

its a horrid proposal, one we must be on guard for.. anytime the dictatorial commies put it forward again

[KC_Lion]

Communism destroys, that is it’s nature, as a fish unto water.

[HarleyD]

Obamacare by any other name is still Obamacare.

[PGR88]

America’s health-insurance system is progressive crony-capitalist. Government has already taken control, just not completely.

One simple but highly effective reform would be to have, and allow, every doctor and hospital to have a cash option, outside of insurance.

Americans will need a free-market system to develop alongside our bloated bureaucratic one, as the government takes over completely and as it collapses.

[bigbob]

If you don’t agree you’re a racist /s

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’m not so sure it would abolish insurance companies.
BC/BS will likely continue to process claims by the millions.

[grania]

Obamacare is universal health care with the corporate middle man. That makes it a Fascist program. I suspect people are fed up enough with health insurance companies that they'd just as soon get rid of them.

There will be no health freedom, but that's already just about gone. Unless one finds a way to get off the medical grid, it'll be forced vaccinations and forced quarantines and big gov deciding who's worth saving.

Civilization is on its way out, and this is part of it.