After seeing how efficient government institutes like social security, DMV, and even the post office do you really want to put all your eggs in the government running healthcare. Talk about a job killer; you would immediately put several million Americans out of work who work for insurers i.e. BCBS, Aetna, Humana, United Healthcare, etc.
Then, look at the unabated mess that the ACA website is and how difficult it is to navigate. Imagine the government putting their resources behind a third rate website and the average American trying to get healthcare. Also, TA and AbrahamG and SF1900, how are you going to pay for a single server healthcare for all Americans.
Will the 50 percent who pay all taxes just contribute that much more off their back to support the millions who contribute very little to none. Will their be a VAT tax beyond the usual state and federal income taxes. Just explain to me in simple terms how this would work? How do you justify essentially firing thousands if not millions of Americans by essentially making private insurance a non-entity. How would that even work without lawsuits and legal ramifications from the insurance industry? I always hear about one payor for all but the implementation logically does not appear to be so easy to accomplish.
Please enlighten this low life uneducated Cretan capitalist. I am very willing to be educated further on the manner by the progressive elite of Getbig.
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single-payer-faqThis link addresses everything and is from Physicians. Here is what the link addresses:
Single-Payer FAQ
To view a two-page handout covering frequently asked questions about single-payer national health insurance, click here.
What is single payer?
Is national health insurance ‘socialized medicine’?
Won't single payer bankrupt the U.S.?
What about the proposal to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to 55?
Won’t this result in rationing like in Canada?
Who will run the health care system?
What about medical research?
Won’t this just be another bureaucracy?
How will we keep costs down if everyone has access to comprehensive health care?
Will bundled payments and "paying for value" in health care reduce costs?
How will we keep doctors from doing too many procedures?
What will happen to physician incomes?
Under single payer, won't physician incomes go down?
How will we keep drug prices under control?
Why shouldn’t we let people buy better health care if they can afford it?
What will be covered?
What about alternative care, will it be covered?
Can a business keep private insurance if they choose?
What will happen to all of the people who work for insurance companies?
How will we contain costs with the population aging?
What about ERISA? Doesn’t it stand in the way of states implementing universal health care plans?
How will the Health Planning Board operate?
Since we could finance a fairly good system, like the Norwegian, Danish or Swedish system, with the public money we are already spending (60% of health costs), why do we need to raise the additional 40% (from employers and individuals)?
How much of the health care dollar is publicly financed?
Why not MSAs/HSAs?
Why not use tax subsidies to help the uninsured buy health insurance?
What is PNHP’s response to libertarian proposals for health savings accounts and deregulated insurance plans?
Won’t competition be impeded by a universal health care system?
Why not make people who are higher risk pay higher premiums?
Won’t this raise my taxes?
Isn’t a payroll tax unfair to small businesses?
Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been in the news lately for poor care and treatment of returning soldiers from Iraq. Won’t national health insurance have similar problems?
What about incremental reform of the health system?
What happens to investor-owned hospitals under national health insurance (NHI)?
What proportion of health spending is for undocumented immigrants?
The insurance industry says that PNHP’s figures on administrative costs are outdated. Is this true?
How much could the states save on administrative waste by adopting a statewide single-payer program?
What will happen to malpractice costs under national health insurance?
Should PNHP support a public Medicare-like option in a market of private plans?
Would a “public plan option” at least be a step in the right direction?
Universal healthcare is okay for a small country or organization like Switzerland, Canada, or the Veterans Administration, but it wouldn’t work when scaled up to meet the needs of a large country like the US.
Responses to recent attacks on single payer health reform: Ideology Masquerading as Scholarship
When Canada adopted single payer, did she allow labor unions to opt-out and “keep what they have.”
What does PNHP have to say about the primary care workforce shortage?
What is a Voucher Plan? What’s Wrong With It?
What about the claim (in videos circulating on the internet) that a patient in Canada would have died of a brain tumor if he hadn’t come to the U.S. for an MRI?
How much do private insurance companies spend on overhead and profit?
Doesn't the threat of filibuster prevent fundamental reform?
Will the Obama health plan cover all young adults?
The number of uninsured Americans now exceeds 50.7 million people according to the Census Bureau. Won't the Obama health plan cover them?
What about report cards on physicians? Won't they reduce costs and improve quality?
Why are health care costs rising and how can single payer "bend the cost curve"?
What is PNHP view of ACO's?
What is PNHP's perspective on the Medicare crisis?
What is driving an epidemic of adverse reactions to medications in the U.S.? What impact could a single payer system have on this epidemic?
What about pushing to make health care a "human right"? Is that a good strategy?
US infant mortality is not high compared to other countries. It just appears that way because of the way we classify life births
Can the ACA exchanges serve as a stepping stone to single-payer reform?
Why is important to prohibit hospitals and health systems from retaining an operating surplus?
