I'm referring to us hopefully one day moving to a single payer system.
Yeah then when you have cancer and it will cost a fortune to treat you. You will get a pain pill to keep you comfortable the rest of your days.
Wait, are you referring to our system now? Sure sounds like it. I agree though, we can't have that type of system. Medical costs should never cause someone to go bankrupt, glad we can agree on that.
No, government healthcare is the worst thing we could do.
So you say. But reality says otherwise.
Where has there ever been a successful healthcare system that didn't have government involved? Our system is already the most privatized system of any 1st world country. So where is your proof?
I know you don't have any, but it's funny to ask and watch you ignore it.
We should be buying our health insurance the same way we buy our auto, home, and life insurance. I should be able to pick up the phone and call ANY insurance company in the country, and order the health insurance options that
I want.
This would give me far more leverage than we have now. You are hostage to whatever single insurance company plan your employer offers you. And a small employer has zero leverage with an insurance company. And the insurance company's leverage is weakened by being forced to work with a limited number of health care providers.
Employer-sponsored health insurance drives the health care cost curve UP!
What's more, the government has weaseled its way into the health care market and GETS TO WRITE THE RULES FOR ITS COMPETITORS.
How's that been working out?
And now, with ObamaCare, the government has taken over your health care even more. It tells you what you must buy, it is the gatekeeper to the exchange you must buy your insurance from if you can't get it at work, and it is the gatekeeper that decides which insurers get to be listed on the exchange.
"Sorry, you didn't contribute enough campaign cash to our committee."