06-19-2017, 09:44 PM
(06-19-2017, 07:39 PM)R Benton Wrote: I don't know if we'll ever see single payer here. I know that's the magic bullet that seems to make both sides happy — businesses don't have to mess with paying into employee insurance and individuals don't have to jump through hoops — but the cost was higher than military budget level spending.
The only way it would be doable is by telling healthcare providers what to charge, and supply companies what they will take for everything from medicine to machines. And that's a little too socialist for the majority of Americans, I think.
(06-19-2017, 07:39 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Until everyone realizes everyone's taxes will be raised. Substantially. Now it may not cost Bernies $32 trillion over 10 years, but "make the rich pay their fair share" aint gonna make it.
I don't want Single Payer or anything near it since I see government run healthcare only as a means of absolute control over the populace...eventually.
Healthcare can be tied to everything from how you live, what you eat and if you exercise to what job you have, how much electricity you use and the type of car you drive. Since the government controls your healthcare, they can tell you what to do all in the name of the greater good and to save money which lowers your cost and those around you.
Of course, those with a lot of money can tell the government to shove it and those who make the laws can opt out for the rest of their lives. Seriously, what do the "Regular" people really know? The Catholic Church did it for centuries, Communist countries did it for decades and are still doing it...telling people how to live and think. Hell, this is a made up percentage but at least 95% of the American public are already told how to think and act. The other 4.75% are demonized as whack jobs and that .25% are actual whack jobs.
Don't believe me about being told how to think and act? Just read this board.
