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Is the Canadian Broacasting Company a US conservative think tank?
Your article is an opinion piece, written in 2010, without statistical evidence, by a conservative for a conservative think tank.
The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. from Wikipedia.
It was founded in 1979 by a wealthy English chicken farmer , Sir Anthony Fisher. It is hardly a definitive report on how Canadians regard their health care and insurance system.
You didn't quote Canadian Broacasting (sic). You quoted Pacific Research Institute.
Is the Canadian Broacasting Company a US conservative think tank?
Half of Congress is eligible for Medicare and earns multi-6 figure salaries a year plus other income streams.Did you miss where I wrote that those who are currently on Medicare should not have their taxes raised to front the costs for a one payer system?
And in the next post backed it up with a CBC article. Do try to keep up.You didn't quote Canadian Broacasting (sic). You quoted Pacific Research Institute.
Will single payer ever come to pass?
It won't as long as Republicans have enough power in congress to filibuster it. Their existence is to protect/increase the wealth of the wealthy. They take the Grover Norquist pledge to never raise taxes. As long as they can keep that white working class conned into voting for them then we will keep the capitalist system we have. Lots of money to be made denying health care to Americans.
I don’t know for sure, but wouldn’t emergency ambulance service be covered under Universal Healthcare?I never paid them. My point was that public entities also charge ‘user fees’ for their services.
In other words, you support the general concept, yet no specific legislative proposal.
Perhaps, you should look at Medicare for all this way: Medicare (for some) costs in premiums alone about $150 monthly per person, so to supply that benefit to a 4 person household should cost them $600/month (or $7,200/year) in premiums.
I am still working. Guess I just make too much money. My monthly premium is $243. But that is way cheaper than blue cross I used to pay and Medicare has much better coverage.
If you are working, I’ll bet that is only 75-80% of the premium with the employer paying the rest.
WW
I voted OTHER.
If it improved medical care in the United States, for all, without damaging the lives of caregivers.
The best one we’ve ever been to was Syracuse, but it had its own VA issues as well, namely what you mentioned - almost every ****ing time you go in there, there’s a different doctor. You can’t get used to a good doctor because they shuffle them around and you never see them again.
Huntsville - ok so we were moving from Syracuse to Huntsville and hubs had chest pains. We went to the Syracuse VA and they wanted to cath him immediately, as he was a heart patient. He refused, as we already had the moving truck packed and our lease was up. He explained that we would be in Huntsville the next day, and we would go then. We got to Huntsville and they told us to call Birmingham. Birmingham gave us a 5-month wait for an emergency cardiac appointment. We explained to them exactly what Syracuse told us to say, and they did not care. 5 months for his appointment.
You mean without lowering the salaries of the people who work in hospitals, correct?
Yes, without lowering the salary or hourly wage of any non licensed medical care employee.You mean without lowering the salaries of the people who work in hospitals, correct?
It is in my province.I don’t know for sure, but wouldn’t emergency ambulance service be covered under Universal Healthcare?
Yes, without lowering the salary or hourly wage of any non licensed physician or non licensed medical care employee.
I would understand the need to consider compensation for those in the industry who have attained their positions after extensive schooling and extensive licensed training.
Crikey, how long ago was this?
Our experience in Memphis was in 2000.
Thanks, I failed to edit that sentence properly!You mean licensed, not non-licensed, correct?
Medicare and Social Security are running out of money - the amount brought in by taxes is forcing them to draw down on other assets; which are projects to run out within 10-12 years.Perhaps you should compare Exxon's brutal killings, land takings, pollution, environmental destruction, oil spills, outright flaunting of laws, illegal treatment of indigenous people, tax evasion, illegal financial manipulation of smaller countries monetary system to how Social Security or Medicare work systems work.
Yes, without lowering the salary or hourly wage of any licensed medical care employee.
I would understand the need to consider compensation for those in the industry who have attained their positions after extensive schooling and extensive licensed training.
I am still working. Guess I just make too much money. My monthly premium is $243. But that is way cheaper than blue cross I used to pay and Medicare has much better coverage.
If you are working, I’ll bet that is only 75-80% of the premium with the employer paying the rest.
WW
Oh absolutely not. Medicare doesn't work that way. They take it out of my social security payment.
Americans who get their health insurance through work never realize what health insurance cost. I think it is just a sneaky way they use to keep people from bitching about health care in america.
Half of Congress is eligible for Medicare and earns multi-6 figure salaries a year plus other income streams.
Lower income individuals with only social security income wouldn’t see any sort of major income tax changes.
Medicare and Social Security are running out of money - the amount brought in by taxes is forcing them to draw down on other assets; which are projects to run out within 10-12 years.
My employee’s Memphis experience was around 2005.
My experience with the Birmingham VA was early 2000s. Don’t remember exact year.
That depends on how the “free” (federal?) universal healthcare system is funded.
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