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true but that doesn’t make it right when people are running these states are paid by the same people who benefit from the current system…
by bdangubic 2y ago
true but that doesn’t make it right when people are running these states are paid by the same people
who benefit from the current system…
- tptacek 2y agoThe people in those states do not want it, which is why state single payer referenda fail.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoRomneycare and the ACA were a pretty big step in the single payer direction. Popular enough to overcome vetos and attempts to roll them back.
- tptacek 2y agoI like the ACA. I think the Swiss system makes a lot of sense. Community rating, guaranteed issue, mandate, subsidy, then universal single payer at retirement, where costs are concentrated. It's a sane system. The problem isn't the system structure.
- rawgabbit 2y agoWhat one thing would you change in the American system?
- tptacek 2y agoI would drastically increase the number of residency slots Medicare funds.
- valval 2y agoI would never have expected your answer to be “spend more of other people’s money”.
- bdangubic 2y agoall of insurance and all of healthcare is "other people's money" :) it just depends where other people's money is going. this is amazing thing to me as European living in the United States, people want Gov to spend money for education or healthcare or ... COMMUNISM!! but corporate subsidies and 984 trillion dollars to the department of offense - oh RIGHT ON - let me get another gig job to pay more to that :)
- valval 2y agoThe somewhat obvious thing you seem to be missing there is that the money isn’t being extracted by force.
- piva00 2y agoNot force, just the veiled threat that if you don't pay you won't have healthcare. Everyone will require healthcare at some point, and at the points where you need the most you can't go do some window shopping and price comparison. Why make it more difficult, cumbersome, expensive, and bureaucratic? Ideologues can be rather illogical.
- valval 2y agoLike any other service, you’ll just pay for it with your money.
- piva00 2y agoHow do people without money get access to this essential service? Less sick people is better in general for a society, not only socially but also economically speaking, do you agree with this statement?
- valval 2y agoThrough two options; insurance or debt. I agree with the statement as you present it, all other things being equal.