No. Plus, my comment was not a call-out post but to people in general who show sociopathic tendencies.
I don't think it's that simple. But I don't wanna stray too far off topic here--Feel free to start a debate on that subject, as it honestly sounds like it can be a good one.
Now, there's a decent argument that the failure of Obamacare could usher in something worse (or better, depending on your point of view - honestly, single payer scares the **** out of me). To be truthful, though, I'm not rooting for Obamacare. I didn't want it and the fact that "you could keep your insurance" had to be such a big part of getting support indicates to me, that a good many of us didn't want it and Obama knew that. Now, I don't know if it can ever fully go away, but presuming it could do you want Obamacare to fail?
Give me a minute to attach the poll.
You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Any attempt to “repair” the ObamaCare scam can only make it worse. The only genuine repair has to begin with completely repealing this entire steaming pile of solid digestive waste and starting over.
I want it to fail because it is 10,000's of pages of regulations that no one human being can fully understand. It's unsustainable and is full of pork and homeboy hookups for corporate buddies. We do need health care reform but this is not it.
That's the talking point. I disagree. In fact, in the "total repeal of Obamacare GOP alternative" some of the ACA provisions are kept in place. I'm sorry, but I simply cannot be persuaded in the current political climate the GOP is interested in anything other than doing all it can to see to it that the Obama Administration haws a failed legacy even if it means harming the people of America in the process.
These are the things that can and should be amended. I seriously doubt that after almost 4 years many of the pork and hookups could not have been repealed and replaced with improvements if couched in a spirit of America first cooperation instead of using it as the democrats' Achilles Heel campaign tool.
What scares you about it? You are a small business owner and an individual. The only problem with single payer is that taxes will be higher. Taxes were high in our country back in 1993. Nobody died from higher taxes. People do die and/or live miserable lives due to the emotional stress of medical bills exceeding twice the lifetime income of a healthy 20 year old. Imagine if you are 50 and disabled as a result of your medical issue. You'll never pay it back. In a nation full of honest people this is a problem. When honest people are unable to pay a bill that they are obligated to pay, this causes great emotional strain. Over time emotional stress causes more medical problems. Those medical bills won't be paid either. Which adds stress on the impacted individual and stress to the overall medical system.
With single payer the unpredictable cost of health insurance will no longer be the problem of your small business. This will allow you the chance to focus on running your business in the most effective way possible. You will no longer have to alter your business due to some retarded industry that has a completely perverted business model where the customer tries to screw the service provider and the service provider is trying to screw the customer. Real businesses doesn't operate that way. Health insurance is a retarded product.
With single payer you will not have to pay for health insurance any more. You will simply pay higher taxes. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that every single person in your country will receive the medical treatment they need. This may cause you to be lessed pissed off about the higher taxes.
Why are you scared of single payer? Is it a principle thing? Because it really makes no sense to me why you would oppose a system that most countries already use. Some Republicans are considering this as a strategy of combatting Obamacare. They probably won't but it is being considered as a plank to the Republican Party platform.
If that doesn't make someone pause, nothing will.
There are two places in the world for people who have nearly zero concern for the well-being of others:
Psychiatric wards and prisons.
Thanks for posting this, because in that video, he plainly and uncharacteristically for a politician, honestly explains what my fear is based around regarding single payer.
What is that fear, bureaucracy?
Good question.
Bureaucracy as an entity is not my concern. The impersonal application of something as personal as health care by a bureaucratic system is a concern.
My health care should be my choice, with the guidance of my physicians. Not the choice of an insurance company or a government agency.
My insurance policy gives me and my doctor the choices of treatment. Source and amount of payment are the only choices where my insurance gets involved (although they do try to exceed that limitation regularly).
I just got home from having an ultrasound. The cost of the procedure alone (not including doctor's fees), was $843.00. I had to pay the entire amount because of my deductible and it being early in the year. Under single payer, I may have not been allowed to have the procedure, since there may not be a mechanism for me to pay the costs directly, or even get approval to have the procedure from the government.
For instance, I always try to go through the VA first. The VA disapproved the procedure. My private doctor ordered the procedure and I was scheduled to receive it. The VA refused to perform it. I had to go to a private medical imaging and radiologist group to have the procedure.
My late father-in-law, and my mother-in-law had/have the same problems with Medicare. We have to have a separate private insurance policy as well as use our own funds to cover treatments that Medicare will not allow (look at the video X posted for prima facie evidence of this fact).
The same happens to many in Canada that have to come to the US to have procedures that are not allowed by the Canadian single payer system.
I don't want that here, not for me.
You have the right to do as you wish. As for me? I prefer to have a voice of what happens to my own body.
And that is the main issue, isn't it? I don't care what other system others want to be on, what bothers me is how they want to force me into it as well. I'm fine dealing wit private insurance, and, like you, I may have to pay out of pocket initially until my deductible is met. Shoot, I never opt for vision so every year I get my check-up and contact prescription, I pay for it myself. I just don't find it particularly appalling to pay for services I received.
Wishing a plan that has some good aspects to fail…
I must have missed the part where anyone was discussing any plan that had any good aspects. I thought we were talking about ObamaCare.
I "want it to fail" the same way I'd want my 1-6 football team to "Fail".
In the analogy, you don't see any hope to actually turn the season around. As such, you'd rather bite the short term bullet and see the team lose most of the rest of their games as opposed to winning a few unexpected ones and winding up with a middling record hovering around .500. By "failing" the rest of the season you end up with a high draft position and a more favorable schedule next year. You take the short term pain in hopes for something much, much better in the future.
The same goes for Obamacare. I don't see any real hope of it "turning around". As such, I'd rather take the pain of it being clunkly launched and a tormultuous period after it's repealed because I think it'd lead to a better situation in the future.
Now, if my 1-6 team suddenly gets a fire under it's ass and somehow starts winning game after game after game then I'm still going to cheer for them. And if they inexplicably make the playoffs, I'll be rooting for them. But I wouldn't be expecting that to happen, and I'd be nervously cheering until it became clear that this team actually WAS capable of making some noise.
Similarly, when a good thing happens regarding Obamacare I'll still be happy about that instance even if I'm down on the whole thing. And if somehow over time it actually starts looking like it could be a good and worth while system, then perhaps I'll come around to it.
But at the moment...absolutely, I'd like it to fail because I think there's a better option for the long term health (no pun intended) of the country. But if it doesn't fail and it actually succeeds and is good for the country then I'd be happy to be wrong. But since I don't think that's going to be the case, I'd rather see it be done with and replaced over languishing in meidocrity for years upon years.
I "want it to fail" the same way I'd want my 1-6 football team to "Fail".
In the analogy, you don't see any hope to actually turn the season around. As such, you'd rather bite the short term bullet and see the team lose most of the rest of their games as opposed to winning a few unexpected ones and winding up with a middling record hovering around .500. By "failing" the rest of the season you end up with a high draft position and a more favorable schedule next year. You take the short term pain in hopes for something much, much better in the future.
The same goes for Obamacare. I don't see any real hope of it "turning around". As such, I'd rather take the pain of it being clunkly launched and a tormultuous period after it's repealed because I think it'd lead to a better situation in the future.
Now, if my 1-6 team suddenly gets a fire under it's ass and somehow starts winning game after game after game then I'm still going to cheer for them. And if they inexplicably make the playoffs, I'll be rooting for them. But I wouldn't be expecting that to happen, and I'd be nervously cheering until it became clear that this team actually WAS capable of making some noise.
Similarly, when a good thing happens regarding Obamacare I'll still be happy about that instance even if I'm down on the whole thing. And if somehow over time it actually starts looking like it could be a good and worth while system, then perhaps I'll come around to it.
But at the moment...absolutely, I'd like it to fail because I think there's a better option for the long term health (no pun intended) of the country. But if it doesn't fail and it actually succeeds and is good for the country then I'd be happy to be wrong. But since I don't think that's going to be the case, I'd rather see it be done with and replaced over languishing in meidocrity for years upon years.
How exactly does single payer scare you? Are you terrified of communally paid-for roads? Public parks? Are things only okay if there's a higher class profiting from it at the expense of a lower class?
Roads! That thing only government can do.
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