The entire point of health insurance is a safety net.I think I do. Instead, I think that you, and frankly much of the nation, are taken with the delusion that health insurance can double as a social safety net. But it won't work.
Wrong again. Insurance is a hedge against financial risk. It's not meant to take of the poor or the chronically ill. It's a stupid model for providing that service.
Unfortunately, when it comes to health care, we've tried to turn insurance into a social safety net, and it's been a disaster.
Of course it is. What kind of koolaid are you drinking?
How, then? All health insurance administrators do is move money from the premium pool you've already paid into, to your provider. That's it. That is the process you don't want to see socialized because...because...that amounts to control, somehow, though you haven't really said how.
Those "administering" the payment for health care services will decide which health care services are eligible for coverage and how much they will pay for them - especially in the case of single payer, where government will virtually set prices for doctors' services. Beyond that, as health care becomes more and more a government responsibility, people will push for more and more laws banning behavior that they can claim is a health risk. It's already happening.
When we dip into real fascism, you'll know it. You'll shit yourself and regret, deeply, supporting the bastards who take over.
We already live in a fascist state. Trump is a fascist.
Trump is a sleazy used-car salesman (with apologies to decent used-car salesmen). He definitely has fascist aspirations, and the sooner we run him out office the better. But you're naive in the extreme if you think what we're currently going through is real fascism. Our government simply isn't well positioned for that. Once they get control of health care, and whatever else we're willing to give up, they'll have much more power to create the fascist state of your dreams.
In a free market those costs are absorbed voluntarily, by whatever benefactors are willing to front the money - and if the patient can't raise enough money to save their lives, yes, they could die. In fact, it's a 100% certainty that each of us will face that end.
So your health care plan is; Don't get sick.
No. Here's my health care plan: "None of your fucking business!" I'm not demanding that anyone take care of me or give me money when I'm broke. So piss off with your guilty-until-proven-innocent propaganda.