>> But the flip side is that Medicare is better than nothing.
That's it? We want "better than nothing"? Right now, we have the best health care in the world. Yet, you aspire to "better than nothing".
The problem is that Medicare has, since its inception, been subsidized by private insurance. Now, we have the government getting involved in the Medicare-izing of private insurance, which means the subsidies are going to go away and ALL health care is going to be compensated, ultimately, in the way that Medicare is now.
As in Great Britain, people will have to buy insurance to cover what the government plans don't.
On top of that, Medicaid is having a huge unfunded mandate dumped on it, and the result will be European-styled waiting lines, inferior care, and other unintended consequences from providing under-funded coverage to millions who would be better off as they are today -- where they can get gratis treatment when they need it.
I'm not sure of your background. But mine is one in which we consider the consequences of changes to large scaled systems before we make them. The scale of American health care is the biggest scale you can have (bigger than even our military).
When you have a few Democrats, ignorant of the system for the most part, making thousands of changes to the system without understanding the consequences, you're going to create a bureaucracy, the likes of which has never been seen in the history of the world. A lot of people are going to suffer as a result. |
