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[Benton]

(04-19-2019, 03:11 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: You ever wonder why "medicare for all" is a federal issue and not a state issue?  If California wants medicare for all, why can't California just do that?  Why do they have to make Nevada subjugate to the same policy?  What is stopping California from providing health insurance for all?

Spoiler alert: It's because they know taxes can't pay for it.  The only way to fund it is with a federal govt that can just print money.  Which is, by the way, an implicit and regressive hidden tax.

Seriously.  Ask yourself why liberals must keep doing an end-around state governments.  I'll leave that as homework....

Medicare is federal. A lot of the requirements for healthcare are federal. 

Could a state implement some form of 'healtcare for all' plan? Sure. But one of the biggest obstacles is going to be conflicting federal regulations, and state laws.

Where I live, most high level procedures go to Vanderbilt in Tennessee or Jewish in STL. If Kentucky implement ented some kind of plan and ... To keep cost low... Said providers had to negotiate drug or procedure costs, other states would tell them to go regulate themselves. 

As the industry is now, Medicare for all won't work. Most people familiar with it know that. But it can work fairly easily, it's just those profiting off it are making sure words like "negotiation" and "cost control" are synonymous with socialism and all things bad.