H.R. 676 Summary
United States House of Representatives Bill Number 676 is the proposed U.S. legislation to establish improved Medicare for All, universal health care, in the United States. It will establish lifelong health care: "cradle to grave", "womb to tomb". The coverage will be complete; some people like to call that “comprehensive.”
Every other free-market country ** in the world automatically provides health care for its people with a largely or exclusively non-profit method of financing the health care. Even the two free-market countries that are considered to be "low income", Mexico and Turkey, have been implementing universal health care.
The best non-profit method has 1 fund and 1 plan and 1 payer (“single-payer”) because it is the simplest and most efficient. The specific funding details need to be established, such as the method(s) proposed in H.R. 676.
What matters is not so much how we pay for it, since the costs will be dramatically lower, but what we will pay for:
— We will no longer be paying for a system that wastes $400 billion in excessive administrative costs.
— Much more of our health care dollars will be spent on health care.
— More of the doctors and nurses time will be spent on caring for people.
— The result will be more time spent on prevention and wellness and the U.S. dramatically raising its life expectancy, which is 31st according to the World Health Organization and 42nd according to the CIA Factbook, which monitors all the countries of the world.
It is not government's responsibility to provide healthcare to its citizens. The best government for all is the least government. I do not believe in universal health care in how we have it. It is my conviction and believe that 200 plus years ago the churches dropped the ball or perhaps never quite picked it up. According to the Bible we are supposed to bring everything into the storeroom and the church would supply the needs of both those who were of the church and the community around it. We the church never did that. If they had we would not need the government getting involved or perhaps we would not need insurance companies. However it is all about money. It is all about doing thing as mankind chooses apart from God. Thanks for sharing the article.
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Single payer Healthcare would actually save us, taxpayers money. We're paying for this atrocity and nobody else profits except the insurance cartel.
Kindly read this most informative post that describes the current plan being promoted by this corporate government:
This is so convoluted it’s going to be hard to work through. And the money involved, a mere $1.6 billion a year, is really pathetic and nearly 90 percent less of what experts say would be necessary to properly fund such a mechanism. But let’s break down what Republicans are doing. By allowing health-insurance companies to discriminate based on a pre-existing condition, the GOP would break the market for this subset of people. And then they would use government funds to fix this market failure. But they would funnel it directly to health-insurance companies, rather than eliminating the middleman.
This is single-payer for dummies. In a single-payer system, the government picks up the health-care costs for the population, paid for through progressive taxation. The market power of having one insurance payer can work to lower overall health care costs, making the system sustainable. In Trumpcare’s single-payer for dummies, the fragmented private-insurance middleman remains intact. But taxpayer dollars still pick up the health-care costs for those who cannot afford it. Instead of acquiring market power, they just give those taxpayer dollars to the private middlemen, which tells the private middlemen they can charge whatever they want and always get paid.
http://bit.ly/2qDMk37
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There are so many ways I disagree with this post. I wish I had time to point out all the flaws In its logic.
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The dumbed down Amerikans are arguing agains their own interests...
The thousand bases around the world?
That's OK, 'cause it's in the interest of "national security", right?
US Special Forces in 138 countries?
That's OK, cause "Freedom", right?
The Bailouts to US and foreign banks?
That's OK too, cause it's Corporate Socialism, it doesn't benefit us, the small people.
Murikans say the darndest things!
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Inform yourself please!
The current plan being circulated will cost us more than medicare for all and we'll have none of the benefits.
This is so convoluted it’s going to be hard to work through. And the money involved, a mere $1.6 billion a year, is really pathetic and nearly 90 percent less of what experts say would be necessary to properly fund such a mechanism. But let’s break down what Republicans are doing. By allowing health-insurance companies to discriminate based on a pre-existing condition, the GOP would break the market for this subset of people. And then they would use government funds to fix this market failure. But they would funnel it directly to health-insurance companies, rather than eliminating the middleman.
This is single-payer for dummies. In a single-payer system, the government picks up the health-care costs for the population, paid for through progressive taxation. The market power of having one insurance payer can work to lower overall health care costs, making the system sustainable. In Trumpcare’s single-payer for dummies, the fragmented private-insurance middleman remains intact. But taxpayer dollars still pick up the health-care costs for those who cannot afford it. Instead of acquiring market power, they just give those taxpayer dollars to the private middlemen, which tells the private middlemen they can charge whatever they want and always get paid.
http://bit.ly/2qDMk37
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