Why Doesn’t America have Single-Payer Health Insurance?

Wed, Sep 23, 2009

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  1. rwcbanzai Says:

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for ONE people to dissolve the political partys which have disconnected them from another, & to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate & EQUAL station to which the Laws of Nature & of Natures God ENTITLE them, a Decent Respect to the opinions of HUMANKIND requires that they should declare the CAUSES which impel them to the separation.- from ForProfit InsuranceCannibalism!

  2. thewizardoflaws Says:

    help sue Medicare and make them offer a plan for everyone (a public option!) Send me your Name, address, statement that you have applied for medicare and were denied, and you will be a named plainitf. No cost to you.

  3. Doleafol Says:

    People prefer their existing health insurance because they do not understand what a single payer system is. The issue is very complex and can’t be readily articulated. For this reason, opponents of the single payer system can easily use scare tactics and misrepresent what it is. If someone could actually explain in detail how a single payer system would work, there would be more support for it. Reforming health care is not like gaining civil rights. The issue is not so clear to people.

  4. britmantx Says:

    Pzifer just got a 2.7 billion fine, for fraud, you want more of the private sector?

    They will pass the bill on to americans, you will be the ones paying the 2.7 bil. Who else can they turn to? Who else can YOU turn to? they have a strangle hold on you, you have the worst care, for the most money, 8% in Europe, 16.9% here, the difference is, you die earier! Does early death relate to good health care?

  5. MrUncleScrooge Says:

    “The US has the best health-care in the world, best modern treatments in medicine and surgeries.” LMAO, you really belive this ??????? Why not even one country in the world copy it, if is so good ? The truth is US system is the worst of all developped country cause full concurrence dosen’t work: you never chose to be ill o.o. Minimum public insurance is a necessity. You may pay a private one if you want more… Toyota went to Canada cause their system cost less…

  6. Lickitysplitn Says:

    Cobra is very expensive. Remember for some, it was a benefit that was much cheaper or even ‘free’ when they held their job. It might work to AUTOMATICALLY be enrolled in the EXISITING public aid program when fired and have Cobra as an OPTION. If you want to pay and have the ability to pay for this interim insurance then go ahead. We have wonderful ’state of the art ‘ not for profit clinics in existance presently for the poor. Why not expand enrollment to more ?

  7. hellotommy Says:

    The US has the best health-care in the world, best modern treatments in medicine and surgeries. Canada’s HC system is on the verge of “imploding”. The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this countrys health-care system is sick. Canada is in the process of switching back to Private Care.

    File under: ObamaCare of the Future.
    *sigh*

  8. hellotommy Says:

    Compassion, get over it .

  9. countrygurl1 Says:

    Actually, it is the law that Cobra be offered to you when you lose your job or quit unless (you lost it for just cause–as in stealing from your employer, violence, drug use, etc.) It is the law that your employer provide you witht he opportunity for COBRA and you are allowed 18 months to keep it unless you are disable, then it is 27 months.

  10. harmlesstree Says:

    You failed to address my fundamental point regarding the apparent lack of any process of cognitive dissonance taking place within your mind! Instead, you chose to simply reiterate your paradoxical statement, given your views. I will ask my question again: Why would you want to fix Medicare/Medicaid? For if you believe the the Public Option, which is essentially a modest expansion of Medicare, is tantamount to socialism, or will lead to socialism, then why would you want fix Medicare?

  11. hellotommy Says:

    A Government Option regarding health care is very bad for Americans because all roads lead to Socialized medical system. Obama supports a “Single Payer System” like they have in Canada, the health care in Canada is sub par and imploding says top Canadian health care officials. If you want to give all Americans HC you will need to make Insurance companies compete state to state you will need tort reform to stop frivolous lawsuits against Docs that will drop HC costs dramatically. NO GOVERNMENT OP

  12. hellotommy Says:

    Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll
    Monday, August 17, 2009

    Palin spoke out about the death panels and Obama took them out. Reagan Conservatives believe the Government option must be removed from healthcare reform or all roads lead to Socialism, Sarah Palin is an honorable, honest voice for real America. Conservatives are deep considerate thinkers from all walks of American life, the shallow, narrow minded selfish liberal ideology is sinking w/ Socialism.

  13. Lickitysplitn Says:

    Why can’t we expand the existing ‘public aid’ and not for profit clinics and allow an increase in enrollment? Perhaps when you lose a job you get enrolled automatically and have the CHOICE to pay for Cobra if you so wish to. Hire more providers for the existing clinics, expand hours, give incentives for specialists to join, build more clnics in communities. This creates GOOD jobs at the local level. Insurance will have to compete harder and provide better policies to attract customers.

  14. harmlesstree Says:

    Why would you want to fix Medicare/Medicaid? They are just the sort of socialist/government programs you were decrying in your previous statement. You are contradicting yourself! If you truly believe what you purport to believe, which is of course patent nonsense, then you should be demanding that our government dismantle the socialized medical insurance institutions, i.e. Medicare/Medicaid, that already exist! Incidentally, Obama is not even supporting a comprehensive single payer system!

  15. hellotommy Says:

    You won’t here the dems breath a word of truth because power is the cure. They want to control the masses, Teddy Roosevelt first proposed national health insurance in 1912, FDR proposed it again in the 1930s. Harry Truman proposed it again in the 1940s. They’ve been waiting along time for this progressive power holy grail issue, healthcare is the way to pure Socialism, Reagan was warning of this as far back as the 60s. Oh, let’s not forget Hillarycare.

    Why are they pushing it so hard?

  16. 1man1horse Says:

    Interesting. I’ve been listening to both sides on this for some time now, and I have never heard anyone say what you are suggesting. Can you please site a politician who has said anything like, “they WANT to die”? I’d love to know. Many thanks.

  17. hellotommy Says:

    Today you go to the doctor, if you’re diagnosed with a serious illness you discuss treatment with your doctor and you decide how to move forward. Under the Obama plan you stand in front of a Board that will tell YOU how to be treated. On this board will be bureaucrats like a labor union rep (SEIU thug) why would you want to give your life away? You are still free! Snap out of it. Try fixing Medicare, Medicade and tort reform first.

  18. livegems Says:

    Well said Col Cowboy

  19. livegems Says:

    It is kind of amazing some people think health costs are like buying a car or any other commercial proposition (eg: all the insurance co-sponsored posts on Youtube, by varying “people”). You can plan to buy a car or a house: it’s your own responsibility and your money allocation–but you can’t plan a medical affliction. Not the same. I simply note one anti-health plan person on Ytube had her two fave videos as a) a revolver shooting into a tank, and b) a clip of Milton F’man on “Greed”. True!

  20. ColumbiaCowboy Says:

    More racist lies. Poverty is NOT a result of “choices,” it is a result of a SYSTEM that allows selfishness and denies equality. A person from a family in poverty will probably also be there, will be in substandard schools, have crummy health care…NONE of which he chose. If he’s black he’s FAR more likely to be harrassed by cops and arrested (even if he’s a Harvard Prof) and THAT isn’t choice.
    Poverty isn’t chosen, rich people CHOOSE to put themselves above others and deny opportunity.

  21. ColumbiaCowboy Says:

    Lie after lie. Liberals do NOT hate capitalism, only the selfishness that allows people to hoard massive wealth while others starve or die with no decent health care. ANY decent person is outraged by that. “Elite rulers”? No, that’s the far right, liberals want nothing but equality for ALL.

  22. neokevin3 Says:

    There is a new supply of new patients so the drug companies do not need to worry about natural supply and demand. OF course asshole liberals with an agenda of hate capitalism will bitch and moan. They take advantage of capitalism daily but wish to be among the elite rulers.

  23. neokevin3 Says:

    People choose not to be educated and choose to be lazy but the poverty is a result of past choices. If a family for generations choose not to educate their kids then they are indeed choosing poverty. A sick lie? No, just the sad truth of natural consequences to stupid choices.

  24. ColumbiaCowboy Says:

    Of course it is. I’ve worked for decades in non-profits and anyone with the slightest clue will tell you that if EVERY PENNY that goes to charity and churches went to services…no salaries, no buildings, no overhead…it wouldn’t come vaguely close to meeting the need. Not even close. Tort reform is nothing but protecting corporate criminals. Cheaper education? Education should be free, but that can’t be done with “charity” either. The wealthy should pay their share in taxes and we can do this.

  25. WoundedEgo Says:

    Charity is not the joke you think it is. Philanthropy built many hospitals in the US and is still major component of our health care system.

    But without tort reform and cheaper education to become a doctor, either way the whole thing is going to collapse because it costs too much to be a doctor, and if it pays to little….

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