It's funny how you're complaining about it costing too much when it cost way too much BEFORE, yet you're not complaining about that. I showed that on average people spend $2,550 on waste and corruption that is totally unnecessary and you're not complaining about this. Why is that?
Why is it that I was paying 8000 less a year before this travesty came along? I'll tell you. I am now subsidizing leeches and deadbeats...or was before I canned it.
Every time the amount people paying increases to massive proportions. If you are currently paying "8000" (8000 what? Toe nails?) a year more, no doubt you were paying way to much beforehand anyway.
I can't answer your question as you didn't prove any facts, or evidence that you're doing this.
Also, I didn't start talking about Obamacare, and I'm not pro-Obamacare at all. So why you're trying to attack me with Obamacare, I have no idea. I'm talking (you did read what I write, right?) about nationalized healthcare, in other words, doing away with private healthcare which has been shown to increase costs.
We will never have national healthcare for one reason: liability.
In the private market, lawyers can sue until the cows come home. But remember that trial lawyers contribute heavily to the Democrat party come election time so they can stay in business. In spite of what they say, Democrats would never dream of eliminating private healthcare because people would not be able to sue the government healthcare personnel.
Yeah, basically the same old story, there is too much interest, too much profit etc to be made out of screwing over the people. So the special interests will always buy the politicians and the politicians will always be on the take. And you wonder why the US is on the way down? When corruption becomes legitimate and accepted and even encouraged, you're in for a fall.
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I don't think the US is on it's way down, but when it comes to healthcare, certainly.
I think what needs to happen is to investigate why healthcare costs so much in the first place--find a way to lower the cost--and then decide how to pay for it.
If Trump should conduct such an investigation, what we will find is that it's government that is responsible for much of our increases these last few decades. Why do I believe this? Because I worked in the medical field for a decade.
Government gives healthcare so much red tape it's almost impossible to make a profit. We used to have bi-weekly meetings just to discuss the new government regulations on not only government patients, but private insured patients as well. It was a nightmare.
Insurance costs increase by how much they have to payout. But did you ever notice that government insurance never increases?
So here's the scenario: A Medicare or Medicaid patient goes to the hospital for major surgery. The cost for that surgery is 150K. Government will only give the provider 100K, and they eat the rest. To recoup such losses, they increase their prices on private pay or private insured patients, and of course, premiums increase for everybody.
When you do this year after year, decade after decade, of course it comes to the point where healthcare is unaffordable for everybody like it is today. But it's not the providers or private insurance that's at fault, it's the government.
Ever heard the expression "history repeats itself"? What happened to the Romans? The British? The Spanish? Every great empire has come and it has gone.
Let's look at Rome:
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1) military loses. The US couldn't beat the Vietnamese, Iraq was a doddle, until it came to reconstruction which has led to ISIS and the rise in Islamic extremism. The US isn't winning this war in the slightest.
2) Economic troubles and over reliance on slavery. Okay, slavery's gone, but economic worries? Well the US is failing to adapt to the modern world when it comes to education, when it comes to getting and keeping high tech jobs, it seems that many people believe low paid manufacturing jobs are the way forwards. China is rising and it will soon have a high educated workforce that works like slaves and will be taking over many of those jobs in the near future.
3) The rise of the eastern Empire. China. Do I need to say more?
4) Over expansion and military overspending. The US spends too much on wars, the last two major wars made the US suffer. Trump wants to INCREASE military spending.
5) Government corruption and political instability. I mean, this is right there in the US. Corruption is endemic and legitimized and seems to be getting worse and worse. Political instability, well, potentially, with the partisan politics on the rise more and more.
6) The arrival of the Huns. Kind of like ISIS.
7) Christianity and the loss of traditional values. Are there any values left in the US?
8) Weakening of Legions. I don't know about this one.
But you've got history repeating itself.
Back to the next point.
Any investigation into why healthcare costs too much will simply be attacked mercilessly, and people will be told why it's a waste of time and money, and the rich will get their way again.
Govt gives healthcare red tape simply because healthcare NEEDS red tape. Things NEED to be done properly, it's about people's health, not about profit. This is why private healthcare is always going to be a problem, too expensive and possibly too difficult. In the UK they talk about the same stuff, too much red tape, too high costs, too much administration, it all sounds good to get rid of such stuff, but often the red tape is the tape that forces doctors and nurses to wash their hands. In the UK in the early 2000s there was an MRSA outbreak. It happened because the Conservative govt had cut back so much on health spending that people no longer bothered to do what they should have been doing and people died because of it. The red tape came back and with it came the efficiency of the health care system.
Healthcare insurance increases the more people have to pay out. But why pay out? Why go through a whole system of "I pay you, you pay them, they then treat me"? Why not, the govt gives them money, I turn up and they treat me, doesn't matter what I have?
