07-31-2018, 05:36 PM
(07-31-2018, 05:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Let's make sure I understand everyone's definition of a single pay Health care system:
Is it paid by taxes and how do we charge those taxes? Payroll or purchase
Likely a combination thereof.
(07-31-2018, 05:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Does it mean no one has to pay "out of pocket" for healthcare?
Depends on the system.
(07-31-2018, 05:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Who determines who gets to go the the more advanced facilities and/or more expensive specialists?
No one. You go to a facility and it would be covered...
(07-31-2018, 05:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: There are too many questions I need answered just to just say Single pay is the way to go. I say this because I personally know Canadian who come here to get procedures done (and pay out of pocket) that they cannot get done in Canada in a timely manner
Canada's problems aren't because of single-payer. They are because they haven't invested the resources into their healthcare system to make it run properly.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
