It's not the "easiest" option when you can just put a public option into the ACA and have a mixed system right there! (which you also need to do to stepping-stone to Single Payer if that's your goal anyway!)
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Intercept : Insurance Lobbyists laugh off single payer healthcare
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skullmuffins
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please explain how transitioning the US to a single payer system is easier than giving people the option to buy into the existing government healthcare system
NYCmetsfan
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Your now talking about how to implement single payer which is not the argument I'm making (any public opinion would use medicare rates and use medicare as a model, not market reform efforts like the ACA) not the end goal which is government payments for medical coverage.
You're not trying to refute me, your just telling me how I could help accomplish my plan.
in fact matt just posted about a similar plan to this
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/3/10899790/single-payer-americare
just random thought the single largest expansion of coverage in the ACA was the expansion of single payer health care
the existing government healthcare system is single payer! this could be a way to do what I want.
Worse outcomes for the highest price. America's healthcare is basically a beat-up old gas guzzler on the world stage.
Other countries were able to do it from scratch. Ours was accidentally back-ended into a stupid employment-based system because of bad policy during WWII (the wage caps.)
No economist on earth that knows what they're talking about would ever tell you the US system is a good idea. The problem is that we're so tied into it at this point that extricating ourselves from it will be a slow ass process.
NO IT IS NOT! Medicare, Medicaid, the hypothetical puplic option are NOT single payer! They're government-run public healthcare!
Single payer means you literally do not have any private insurers at all for baseline coverage and that it all goes through the government!
You are mixing up your definitions badly here.
skullmuffins
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that vox article is explicitly about using a strong public option as a pathway to transition to single payer, because it's far easier than going straight to a single payer system... which is exactly what other people in the thread are talking about...
oneils
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Health insurance companies are not health care providers so how does eliminating insurers decimate the economy? Are they that big in the states?
kaname-san
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Health Care is a sixth of the US economy. About half of that is public spending, half private. So yes, they really are that big in the states.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Fuck these guys.
Lil'DigiOp
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I don't really get how thats the publics problem since thats a result of capitalistic greed.
I mean the government should subsidize this "shift" to the economy because healthcare should have never been a damn business in the first place.
They'll pay 60 mil for a dumbass explosive they'll never use but won't throw any type of bread for the people.
Ultimately, I'd be totally ok with single payer. I just don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. I don't understand why the public is so focused on single payer. It's almost to the degree where the public assumes single payer == UHC, which is far from the case.
In any way, a system like Switzerland, or even like Germany would be far easier to achieve than single payer, and those work fine. At the very least, we should work towards one of those options, and see how it fits. If we don't like it, fine, we can always continue onto single payer, which will be a lot easier when some of the stuff like the public option and pricing controls get passed anyhow.
It's the public's problem because it's 1/10th the economy. Think of the number of jobs tied up in 1/10th of the economy.
Remember the Obamacare website disaster? Now imagine that x10,000, That's what'll happen if a federal single payer gets passed in one fell swoop (not that it will anyhow since the public or political support won't be there).
In any way, a system like Switzerland, or even like Germany would be far easier to achieve than single payer, and those work fine. At the very least, we should work towards one of those options, and see how it fits. If we don't like it, fine, we can always continue onto single payer, which will be a lot easier when some of the stuff like the public option and pricing controls get passed anyhow.
It's the public's problem because it's 1/10th the economy. Think of the number of jobs tied up in 1/10th of the economy.
Remember the Obamacare website disaster? Now imagine that x10,000, That's what'll happen if a federal single payer gets passed in one fell swoop (not that it will anyhow since the public or political support won't be there).
"The system makes me and my bosses rich, so it HAS to be the best in the world"
The cognitive dissonance on display is nauseating.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
There are...pretty credible arguments that if you try and solve the transition issues by just throwing cash at it it becomes something that actually is unaffordable, and I say that as someone who's pretty into MMT. The US can spend a lot more money then it thinks, but it can't spend infinite money. For the transition to Single Payer work you have to basically start prying the private model out of all of the parts of the economy its glued itself into, if you just rip it free the ripple effects seriously fuck up all those bits its affixed to
water_wendi
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Saw this on Jimmy Dore the other day. And there is no holding a bought politicians feet to the fire. Once they are ousted they just get paid for services rendered, an example to future political hopefuls.
Bonen no Max'd
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There's a good Jacobin article that outlines a five step plan towards creating an NHS by slowly breaking the private model apart if you're interested https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/06/trumpcare-obamacare-repeal-ahca-single-payer
water_wendi
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Just noticed that this article isnt mentioned anywhere. If nothing has come out by the weekend im guessing that this never gets any mention at any major news source.