federal governments universal system for senior citizen healthcare. 8. Cost Savings. A guaranteed health care system can produce the cost savings needed to cover everyone, largely by using existing resources without the waste. Taiwan, shifting from a US private health care model, adopted a similar system in 1995, boosting health coverage from 57% to 97% with little increase in overall health care spending. 9. Common Sense Budgeting. The public system sets fair reimbursements applied equally …
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The Government runs things a lot better than the private corporate sector. Just look at how capitalism and profit driven philosophy had caused the banks, wall street, the auto industry and the housing industry to crush and need tax payers to bail them out from udder ruin. Health insurance companies only care about profit not health of its customers. Every problem we face in this country is the work of greedy capitalism that has put a strangle hold on out country and it Government.
“Government run” health insurance is what we have now with medicare, and it works great. A lot better than the systems run by the insurance companies and HMOs.
I am retired, and I do much better than my working wife on the effectiveness of our coverage as well as the cost.
It really annoys me when I hear “don’t let the gov’t get between you and your doctor.” Who is in between now? The insurance companies, who, unlike the government, are looking to make a profit.
Brian in NY
Do we really want the government running the entire health industry? And the banking industry? And the auto industry? What’s next? Why do so many Americans today believe that Washington government officials are better at running things than the American private sector? We are the greatest country in the world, and we got here with less government controls and bureaucracy than other countries…not more. Let’s not forget this, or we’ll become a dying sclerotic country, like much of Europe.
For profit market-based, health-as-a-commodity-model = >30% cut for the wallstreet’s profiteers = NOT A GOOD IDEA
Single payer =more government not a good idea.
Sign me up.
Single Payer for us all, now!