Dispatches is up — thoughts on healthcare after I attended an AARP event on Monday.
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One payer universal health care is the only way to go. Support HR 676 (United States National Health Insurance Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act).
Yes, the VA is such a paragon of excellence. We should immediately inflict that on everyone immediately. Here comes rationing. Kill the old people. And, you say Libertarianism is creul!
It\’s this way, we have a genuine health care crisis. The rolls of the uninsured and under insured are increasing by the millions every year. Even those with insurance can go bankrupt from medical problems. If the private sector insurance companies would cover everyone at reasonable rates, I would shut up and say thank you. But that\’s not happening, the private for profit insurance companies have had decades to cover all Americans at reasonable costs but it never happened and never will. Private insurers are too busy denying claims, refusing to cover and denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. Half of all personal bankruptcies in the USA are from medical problems.Doctors and hospitals would remain private under one payer. With proper funding, the VA works just fine.
yeah, the VA works just fine! Perhaps, you\’d like to be treated at a VA facility?