Originally posted by HotSauce
reply to post by AllexxisF1
One more thing. Explain to me how we are going to pay for healthcare for everyone , pay down the deficit, and compete in a global marketplace?
Sure.
*If we had a single payer system...
People would still be paying premiums like they do today for private insurance companies. The citizen run insurance company would float on their own
premiums like every other privatised insurance company does. Except that our new company is much larger than anyone of the 184 insurance companies out
there so the premiums will be much cheaper.
Now that people are covered by the single payer system they can go see their doctor when they get the sniffles instead of when they had no insurance
and ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. That cost of having no health insurance would not be put on the State tax payers and the rising
cost of health care services. Because when you can't pay someone else has to.
Here is the best part. Since premiums are much cheaper businesses no longer have to flip the bill for paying half their employees health care.
Literally overnight companies would be profitable. When Ford, Microsoft, etc. don't have to pay for health care for their employees they can use the
money to buy new equipment and hire more workers. Stocks will go up and their would be a growth in our economy. People would be healthier and be more
productive.
That and companies would keep their businesses here or even better move them back because they would have less operating costs.
Moreover you know that Tort reform that Republicans keep railing about, well that costs would come down too. Because if everyone is covered for
everything there is no need to sue for such high amounts because the person's care is already covered.
That is why every single westernized nation has had a single payer system for over 40 years now. Because it is the cheapest and most effective. The
only losers in this are the health insurance companies.
The public option in the house now needs to be beefed up to allow anyone who wants to join. That is the crux to get this country profitable again and
bring down the bloody deficit.
[edit on 9-11-2009 by AllexxisF1]
