Seems to work for 75%....
Mister Alighieri
MisterAlighieri
As I said, look at every other country that made the transition from the so-called free market to government run health insurance. That answers all your questions. End of story.
And hospitals will either take it or dry up and blow away.
the whole point is that even a conservative think tank admits (perhaps unknowingly or accidentally, but they do admit) that the number from the first sentence, society-wide, will be much bigger than the number from the second sentence.
Hospitals and doctors can do that because they have the option to do so. When you eliminate the thousand plans and truncate it down to 1 (with a few specific private ones), they will because the numbers make up the different. Also just the paperwork reduction alone will be a cost savings to them. (people forget that…
I can tell you if I was suddenly making 35 thousand I would be looking for a new career. The company I work for would go under and its current expenses if it accepted all Medicare/Medicaid patients at current reimbursement rates.
if everyone would just agree to take much less money things would cost a lot less. time for govt price caps on everything
I think the rather obvious point you’re missing is that people will no longer be paying for private insurance, their employers won’t be paying for private insurance, and that money will no longer need to come out of their paychecks.
You don’t think people wont go for the free option over a paid option? Lol. Ok then.
Hospitals can easily afford lower reimbursement rates once they no longer have to jack up the cost of everything they bill to insurance in order to cover the cost of treating the uninsured in the ER.
You keep saying “tax hikes” while ignoring the savings most Americans would have by not contributing hundreds of dollars monthly to private insurance. Those “tax hikes” would likely end up being less per person than what PEOPLE ARE ALREADY PAYING NOW TO PRIVATE INSURERS.
Where would the Rich flee? Let’s be real here, the only reason they are fighting tooth and nail over here for low wages and little worker rights and to keep a firm hold on our political system is because this is it. There is no fleeing, this is the last bastion of nearly deregulated Capitalism left that they have…
Most of those 80%-85% PAY for their health insurance through their employer. If given the choice between private health insurance that they pay for or a public option, most will pick the public option.
Japan does a pretty decent job of this, where insurance for working adults is generally provided by employers, but pays enough to provide medical insurance for the less fortunate.
If its a government run plan, they government could simply pull the license of any non-compliant health care providers. (granted that kinda goes againstwhat I thought The USA is supposed to stand for..)
It also has one of the highest population satisfaction, not to speak of “happiness”, in the world.
Another American claims the US can’t do what every other industrialized countryhas figured out.
coubled with a gross economic illiteracy when it comes to economies of scale.
The price of those services, fees, and drugs will drop when they are negotiated as a block for the entire country.