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Re: Supreme Court backs Hobby Lobby in contraceptive mandate challenge
Obviously you don't understand what a single payer system is. It is all about where the money comes from and in both the VA and Medicare it comes from the Federal Govt. after taking it from people who pay taxes. The govt. then sets the rates and that destroys incentive as well as drives doctors out of the business meaning there will be less choices. Medicare has driven doctors out of the system and will do the same thing with a single payer system for healthcare. Liberals always believe the opposite and when their beliefs are proven wrong they are already on to something else never admitting they were wrong.
The columnist in that link proposes a single payer system like Medicare, which is nothing at all in practice similar to the VA system. The VA system is government owned facilities, government employed workers, delivering care to a very small slice of the population totally outside the extensive private delivery system we have in place. Single payer, as the columnist used it and I use that term, would replace some or all of the private insurers with ONE payer - e.g. Medicare - but retain the private delivery system.
Obviously you don't understand what a single payer system is. It is all about where the money comes from and in both the VA and Medicare it comes from the Federal Govt. after taking it from people who pay taxes. The govt. then sets the rates and that destroys incentive as well as drives doctors out of the business meaning there will be less choices. Medicare has driven doctors out of the system and will do the same thing with a single payer system for healthcare. Liberals always believe the opposite and when their beliefs are proven wrong they are already on to something else never admitting they were wrong.