07-08-2016, 03:09 AM
(07-03-2016, 10:05 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Since when is expanding Medicaid any sort of alternative answer?
Well, that's effectively what Obamacare did - a decrease in uninsured from 14.6% (pre-recession) to 11.0%, the majority of those coming from Medicaid expansion. So we're still paying for them just like we were before....but that $2500 savings is going to kick-in any day now. Any day.
Gee, if only there had been a way to increase Medicaid coverage without a massive re-write of the healthcare industry....
I don't have a good answer. Neither, it appears, do Democrats - I mean, how's that single payer working in Vermont? Sometimes doing nothing is the best option out of alternatives presented. Or we can all just jump on the massively inefficient gubmit bandwagon.
Although I admire the eagerness to tear it up and start from scratch. Would like to see that mentality in many other wasteful govt initiatives.
But, yeah, if you want an answer a hybrid public/private model probably makes the most sense. But allowing the private model to remain doesn't fit the autocratic liberal agenda.
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