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Sometimes it is not a matter of planning. I worked for a large corporation for two decades and then went into business for myself and have to deal with the insurance market in my new circumstances. Should I have stayed with the big company just for insurance? Many people do exactly that, even though the have the knowledge, skill, and resources to be entrepreneurs. How do you think this effects our overall economy?
You've made a ridiculous statement here, you realize, right? The added cost to employers and entrepreneurs of Obamacare is what has everyone worried.
Single payer is the only real solution because choice is taken out of the equation. If you are American, you will be insured. If you make money, you will pay for it. If you think that removing choice is wrong, I will point out that the choice of whether to pay for the care of others was taken away decades ago under Ronald Reagan with the passage of the Emergency Medical Treatment And Active Labor Act that was basically an unfunded mandate for universal healthcare. America refuses to allow the sick to go without treatment, whether they can or intend to pay for that treatment. Once society made THAT decision, healthcare essentially became a defacto right. If you disagree with this, then you should lobby for the repeal of EMTALA and let people that can pay go without care, but I'll tell you right now, there is no almost support for that.
So, to sum up, health care is a "defacto right" and you want to take all choice in this "right" out of the hands of the individual and hand it to the state... essentially taking the rights away in the process.
In other words, you haven't thought the above paragraph out too thoroughly.
It is stupid to say that ALL will get care but we are not going to build a system for all to get care, we'll just say treat them and bury the costs in insurance costs, medical costs, and taxes.
Which of course is exactly what we do now. So the idiotic fix is no different.
We spend an estimated $50 billion a year on EMTALA costs
The entire US health care system is 16% of the economy. So TOTAL EMPTALA, by your own argument is roughly 2% of the entire US annual medical expense.... so your argument is to abandon the entire system to save some fraction of 2%.
why not just build it into the system and have health insurance for all. Extend Medicare to age 0, and watch the individual costs go down as we stop socializing the highest risk Americans (those over 65) and privatizing the lowest risk Americans.
Because it's not that easy?
My heart doesn't bleed, but my head is exploding at the stupidity.
I'm going to not make the obvious joke here, but thanks for the set up.