Roe vs Wade vs SCOTUS legitimacy

[Mike M (the other one)]

(05-05-2022, 08:37 PM)Dill Wrote: A quick aside here--

The German health care system is NOT a single payer system like GB. (I'm sure you remember I have spoken of this before.)
Doubtful it would require nearly the tax increase a single-payers system would, while likely covering equally well.

Like ours, it is based on private insurance--and they still pay out half what we do per capita for very good health care.

Insurers there cannot deny customers because of pre-existing conditions, and everyone making less than a certain amount (used to be 50,000 Euros) HAS to have some kind of insurance.

For the po' fokes, there are non-profit cooperatives.  

Customers generally never see a bill. Health care providers just send the bill on to the company, rather than you having to send a bill to the company hoping they will "ok" it. That alone must save millions.

We had something along the lines of German coops back when Nixon created HMOs, but that went south by the late '70s, as these were allowed to become for-profit, sending costs skyrocketing and incentivizing schemes to deny coverage and payment. 

Just sayin', there are options other than single payer, and ones that cannot be challenged by "that guy" on every board who knows someone from Canada who comes here for health care cuz it's so bad there and is thankful we pay double what other countries do to get selective coverage because it means we pay less in taxes.

What is their main rules and regulation of the private companies?

also why would it be a big increase in taxes, all we'd really be doing is shifting what we pay now in premiums to "healthcare tax".

And that per capita, what is all included on it? got a link?
I've never studied Germany's Healthcare system, so that'd be some new reading.