Dr. Paris: "Single Payer is...Medicare Expanded!"

[whoo689]

EXACTLY! Single-payer would just EXTEND Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP to ALL Americans! That's all it is! It's literally "Medicare-for-all." Seniors like Medicare, right? Folks on Medicaid, and parents with SCHIP are fairly satisfied, I'm sure. So why WOULDN'T a single-payer system in general be a good idea?? It's not necessarily a total gov't takeover of the entire system. In most cases, single payer is simply taking power AWAY from for-profit insurance co's.

[whoo689]

It is NOT the gov't telling all hc providers what to do, what to use, etc. Now, yes, these systems aren't perfect, but they're really no worse in the long term than what we've got now. 

Single payer, for the most part, is about cost and helping Americans afford HC. It has to do with PAYMENT. It's not about restricting patients' access to doctors, drugs, etc.

[herbs814]

MediScare is an abyssmal pyramid scheme. Stop Obamacare, then end MediScare.

[adventurebelle]

Whenever you have a middle man with a huge amount of money, the service that you desire is going to be affected by the supply of money available.

However, if the consumer has a direct link to the doctor or hospital, the cost is driven down. Try it some time. Ask how much something is going to cost. Shop around. I know of a person who was told an MRI would cost $2000. The person said that she knew another facility had charged her $575 in the past and strangely, the new place matched it.

[adventurebelle]

Government:

- can run for years in the red

- can print its own money

- has armed forces to back them up

Private Companies:

- must produce profit to stay in business (well, until recently)

- printing their own money would land them in jail

- lucky to be able to personally own a firearm.

Yeah, some competition. Who do you think would win? And who will surely lose (uh, that would be us and the private companies).

[Cosmored]

Single payer seems like a good idea to me.

en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/Single-payer_health_c­are

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The insurance companies are parasitic. Why do we need them?

[SAOProductions1955]

Liberals/statists are so generous with other peoples money but when it comes to their own, they are as tight fisted as anyone around.

[soflarick]

Medicair is a dismal failure. Her "feasible" claim is garbage. Medicair is one of the entitlements that is driving us further into debt.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

[ubuibiok]

★★★★★