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Originally Posted by
beaslbob http:///t/397098/sure-you-can-have-health-insurance-not-sure-how-you-will-pay-for-it#post_3538464
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Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/397098/sure-you-can-have-health-insurance-not-sure-how-you-will-pay-for-it#post_3538450
Not that I'm a fan of bigger government but a single payer system would make the US federal government the standard medical insurance carrier. Medical insurance would become a mandatory payroll deduction and medical claims against the federal policy would be presented to the federal government for payment instead of private insurance companies.
Basically, Medicare without the age restriction.
and I am against all of that being set be an all powerful federal government.
For people unlike Bang that have not seen my posts on other forums, this does not mean I am opposed to quality health care.
What it does mean is the private individuals can provide health care to all people of all incomes without the all powerful federal government dictating what health insurance is, what must be done, and redistributing wealth by taking success from some and giving it to others.
If a single payer is adapted or even obamacae fully implemented your entire life just became controlled and dictated by the federal government. And if you don't like some aspect of that there is no way you can successfully sue the federal government.
Bottom line of these federal schemes is to lower costs to some. Usually at the expense of others. And any student of economics 101 knows what happens when prices are held below market values.
For those of you who do not remember the 1973 gas crisis, gas stations in arizona were closed after a few hours. Because they had used up their allocation. Once the Air force base gas station opened up and there was a line 4 cars wide for 3-5 miles waiting to get gas. All those shortages were caused by the federal government holding prices below market values.
The same exact thing will happen when millions and millions of people are given health care at no prices. Plus doctors will leave and change practices and less people will want to become doctors due to the lower salaries.
my .02
This sounds profoundly accurate. It's a little know fact but 2013 has been a record year for Americans who have left the country and renounced their citizenship never to return. I was blown away when I found out who some of them were besides Tina Turner, Elizabeth Taylor and the co-founder of Facebook. Thousands of others, normal people who were once very patriotic and not deadbeats running from the law. When asked most said it didnt make sense to pay for a system that does not support their beliefs and no longer follows the constitution, this in addition to being taxed on income earned abroad. So business leaves because of govt regulation and then the tax payers begin to leave because of govt regulation.
I wish guys like John Wayne ran congress instead.