12-11-2016, 03:29 AM
(12-10-2016, 10:21 PM)FLBones Wrote: Obamacare needs to be replaced with Medicare for everyone.
I concur. It would be far less expensive. It would free competitive enterprises and government bureaucracies of a cost-loading system that no other country has.
Physicians are still going to live well enough on a single-payer system, and those whose extreme capacities merit extraordinary pay will still get it as extreme specialists.
Medicare works well enough to keep elderly people from being priced out of medical care and into the grave. The medical insurance business did not want responsibility for the elderly in intensive care.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.