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Originally Posted by medicineman
May I ask, things such as what Gordan, Single payer? Actually, single payer would be the largest boost the economy has ever seen. All businesses could concentrate on plant investment instead of medical costs. I have no Idea why corporations are so against single payer. The average cost of medical care in the USA is more than 5,000.per capita. That's 416.00 per month, But the per capita cost is erroneous as to what the average taxpayer pays per month. since there are 50 million uninsured and many more under insured, the average tax payer probably pays much more for their private incurance and co-pays. If they taxed the workers on a progressive scale for health care, I'm pretty sure the average would be much less than the real average per worker. I'll bet the average per worker tax burden for health care would be less than 200.00 per mo. if the scale was balanced out. for those making 100K plus, maybe 300.00. Once the profit is taken out of medical, it will soon become apparent just how much the Insurance industry is raping us now. So you see, Single payer is the answer. We can vote on public officials in charge of the medical system, try that with private industry, they just look at us and tell us take it or leave it while they cherry pick their customers. Don't have a pre-condition like Diabetes or you'll not get insured. Right now, I pay 300.00 + copays for my Teamster retirement Insurance, and another 125.00 for my scrips from the VA, and I have decent insurance, not top of the line, but adequate. With single payer, that would probably drop to about 250.00 or less total.
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Medomao, the problem is that THEY ARE GOING TO FORCE PEOPLE TO HAVE INSURANCE
Did you miss that little detail?
Are you still pretending that the giant Providers wouldn't get the government contracts for the Single Payer System?
Palmetto GBA - Owned by a Private For Profit Corporation major Medicaid/Medicare Operator on the East Coast.
Anthem - A private for profit corporation
BC/BS of Texas/New Mexico - Private corporation that probably pays their CEOs millions, and would definitely get the contracts in their area.
Medical Mutual of Ohio - another private, for profit corporation, that would probably get the contracts in Ohio (at least some) and other contracts through out the NE (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan)
The only one's that lose out are the small insurers, which means even more lay offs, we're probably talking about another million jobs that would go up in smoke easily.
Probably a lot more than that.
All replaced with bottom-dwelling ass-leaching bureaucrats at probably 3 -4x the pay.
The poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class gets bent over and raped.