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You just treat them like anyone else and the cost gets rolled into the cost of coverage for everyone. Hospitals and ERs are already required to treat people wh
by jartelt 10y ago
You just treat them like anyone else and the cost gets rolled into the cost of coverage for everyone. Hospitals and ERs are already required to treat people who come in regardless of whether they are legal/illegal or have/don't have insurance. So... we pay for their (and citizens who can't afford their coverage) care anyways. With single payer that cost would just be spread across everyone in the state rather than spread across only people with insurance.
- ThomPete 10y agoIn a single payer system thats not going to work. Keep in mind that you don't make money anymore you have a taxpayer paid budget. Thats not going to leave room for that. That they are required to treat is even worse for a budget it wouldnt hold long.
- jartelt 10y agoI do not understand your argument. You just price a new tax high enough such that the system is paid for, no? I think everyone agrees that you need a new tax to pay for the system, and you are not going to take the current tax revenue and pay for single payer plus everything else the government pays for. Instead of paying for insurance premiums or getting a lower salary because health insurance is part of your compensation, you would just pay a new tax. As a result your life would be simplified since you no longer would need to worry about insurance networks, levels of coverage, out-of-network doctors in in-network-hospitals, etc.
- ThomPete 10y agoin the real world you dont just do that. The problem is that you can never pay too much for healthcare so how much tax you are going to pay is important. The US is a big and complex country, its not like other countries and so you run the risk of having to tax so high to make it sustainable that its dead on arival.