I know what your saying, I am not one of these people that is "all for" a universal health care plan all on the usa tax payer's shoulders.....that will give the Corporations and companies that are supplying it as a benefit and part of our total compensation at our jobs, the BIGGEST TAX CUT of sorts in their History and become profitable immediately, overnight!!!!!
THEY are probably the ones truely behind all of this, incognito....without anyone really knowing it, pushing the total universal thing....where businesses no longer have to pay anything for their employee health care coverage and ALL of it on to our shoulders via our taxes imo.....
HOWEVER, this does not mean that I think we don't have some pretty big problems with our health care system and with more and more business not being able to provide this benefit for more and more Americans daily or more americans not being able to pay for their portion of the coverage because it is going up year after year for them too, and at a rate way above inflation or their pay!
Before you know it by default it WILL BE A UNIVERSAL PLAN for nearly half of America who are then uninsured and tax dollars will be reimbursing the Hospitals along with those left with insurance paying such high prices that prohibit the most, to help cover the hospital's costs for the uninsured that is not reimbursed by the State/Federal monies.
It's a mess Allie, a mess....
My fear and concern would be not taking steps to reduce the price of healthcare per capita, BEFORE any kind of universal plans are initiated.
This would be a huge mistake.
We better figure out how to get the entire costs of R& D for the entire world's pharmacuticals off of OUR SHOULDERS ALONE! This is why meds here are more than any country's in the world, we pay for all of the research and development in the cost of our meds in the USA ONLY.....every other country has negotiated a much lower cost for their citizen's meds.
That alone will reduce medicare costs a few hundred billion and save money for the rest of us too....including the insurance companies covering our meds.
Streamline paperwork, and records, and pricing.....save long term.
Test various Universal plans in individual states BEFORE EVER considering a National one....right now, Massachusetts has just initiated one that is coming in to fruition, we need to follow it and see if it actually saves everyone money while covering near everyone, no uninsured, or a just a few.
There are a couple of other states that are trying other universal coverage for the people in their states too...
Now this kind of Universal Coverage is NOT REALLY Universal Coverage because it is done through the free market, (SO they say!), with Private Insurance Companies Involved and Businesses still involved in their Share....
Who knows why it is called a Universal HC Plan? There are no state run hospitals or it is not done by ONE PAYER, like paying the State for Medicare....but I suppose it is Universal in the sense that EVERYONE is to have coverage....
and how they plan to save in the long run is by everyone having coverage. Therefore, the hospitals do not have to burden a share of the expense of Emergency visits by the uninsured without Medicaid coverage or the uninsured Medicaid recipiants that the state would then reimburse hospitals at Medicare agreed prices, which are usually lower than the "going" price.
Well, all of the much of these huge costs were put in to the price of our medical care....making it much more expensive for every test we take and every visit we make, and every drug we swallow....
Then on top of this, you got Insurance companies wanting to make their Share, which is 1/3 the profits of the healthcare industry today...probably...
So, I am not against finding a REAL sollution to the double digit rises each and every year, of our Health Care Costs....if someone can figure out how to do this, WITHOUT diminishing our services, I'm all ears....but until then, I'm really not for it.
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