I am sick of this political system playing to rhetorical debate. When it comes to health care, we have to make a choice here. Let's start being honest about the only two fiscally possible options.
1. Single Payer Health Care - Simply put we put all of the eggs in one basket. Everyone pays into the same fund, and everyone gets Medicare. People under a certain age and over a certain age, do not have to pay a premium. Private supplemental plans will still be available, but everyone is in the same risk pool. There is a fair debate between private and public providers, and actual study probably shows a hybrid system. Lower income urban areas and rural areas would more than likely need public providers, while middle and upper income areas would be better served by private providers.
2. Elimination of Medicare - The federal government gets out of the health care business altogether. If a state has the resources, they can administer public providers as they see fit.
Now there is an absolutely absurd climate out there. People are fighting over 2 solutions that do nothing to address the real problem. When you study the government cost over the federal, state and local sectors, health care is killing budgets. When you factor emergency room costs into the private sector, businesses and patients are drowning under rising costs.
There are legitimate points in each argument, but can't we actually argue honestly here.
1. Single Payer Health Care - Simply put we put all of the eggs in one basket. Everyone pays into the same fund, and everyone gets Medicare. People under a certain age and over a certain age, do not have to pay a premium. Private supplemental plans will still be available, but everyone is in the same risk pool. There is a fair debate between private and public providers, and actual study probably shows a hybrid system. Lower income urban areas and rural areas would more than likely need public providers, while middle and upper income areas would be better served by private providers.
2. Elimination of Medicare - The federal government gets out of the health care business altogether. If a state has the resources, they can administer public providers as they see fit.
Now there is an absolutely absurd climate out there. People are fighting over 2 solutions that do nothing to address the real problem. When you study the government cost over the federal, state and local sectors, health care is killing budgets. When you factor emergency room costs into the private sector, businesses and patients are drowning under rising costs.
There are legitimate points in each argument, but can't we actually argue honestly here.
