Posted on 02/05/2021 8:30:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Yea, so say good-bye to your elders now.
First to suffer will be the veterans...
Be prepared for transgendering/surgical mutilation to get priority.
They don’t care. The end justifies the means.
I used to think that democrats were just misguided. Now, I know they’re leftists and bent on our destruction as a nation.
My wife and I have not had health insurance since the day the individual mandate was given teeth. We trust the Great Healer, rather than this overpriced and only moderately effective system. And he doesn’t charge for house calls.
We’ve saved over $100,000 in insurance payments in that time. This is after tax dollars in an area where the average monthly house payment is $600.
You realize that all this is immaterial to the progressives in favor of single payer. They find our present system immoral in that some have more/better health care than others. They want all to have the same even if that means less.
I’ve never been able to get a single payer advocate to answer this simple question. Which would you prefer, a system where everyone gets the same health care or a system where there are different levels of health care but every level is better than the system where everyone gets the same?
I’m still amazed at how the middle class completely lost access to moderately priced health care, and rationalized it away as a good thing because Obama was helping the poor.
Pay particular attention to the bit about the "national frailty score".
The rationing in the US will be horrific, since the government will not be doing anything to lower the costs of medical care (lawyers, overpaid doctors and others, drugs, etc.). It will be FAR BETTER to be in just about any other country, if one needs medical care.
“CBO estimates 10 million individuals not lawfully present in the United States, of whom 8 million would sign up under the single-payer system.”
10 million, eh? How many years ago would that have been even close?
Americans can't afford the standard of health care they've come to expect as their God-given right. The only way to fix this is to tell them the truth. If we're not willing to do that, then the "third party" in question will be telling them the hard way.
In our political and legal system, the government is the only one who can do this because it doesn't have to worry about getting sued by everyone who is denied a life-saving medical treatment (that someone else is paying for).
“CBO does believe the supply of care will rise, reflecting administrative savings in both money (e.g., medical practices spending less money on billing clerks) and time (e.g., doctors and nurses spending less time seeking authorizations, etc.). CBO also thinks medical providers will increase the supply of care provided in response to the added demand.”
Utter unbelievable claptrap. Look at any department that has been federalized and see. Adding layers of regulations always leads to inefficiency. Federalizing all healthcare will lead to more and more layers.
They don’t care. The end justifies the means.
I used to think that democrats were just misguided. Now, I know they’re leftists and bent on our destruction as a nation.
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You are right. They don’t care. They only care about themselves.
The Democrats have destroyed confidence in our government, the congress and the legal system. Nobody trusts our institutions anymore. Now they’re trying to do the same thing to law enforcement and the health care system.
They’ve taken a wrecking ball to everything.
Over 65, say goodbye now.
Cuomo, Newsom, Inslee, Pritzker and the Whip Mistress all gave us a preview of the about-to-be-codified death panels with their orders consigning so many elderly to the nursing home/gas chambers. Buckle up.
Just giving “Free” healthcare to ILLEGAL Immigrants will kill the system, with the borders now wide open.
I don’t favor socialized medicine. But anyone who believes health care is not already rationed is not paying attention. Anytime you have a third party paying a good portion of the bill you can be sure they are also deciding who is eligible for what care. It may not even be an outright denial. It could be telling you the med your doctor prescribed is not on an approved formulary list and refusing that drug in favor of another. Telling you a doctor you want to visit is not in network that is also a type of rationing. People tolerate this because they believe it is the only way to make health care affordable.
No one has the right to determine the longevity of someone
else life.
This is wrong.
Thank you.
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