Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for somebody to explain to me how we are going to pay for this.
I'm all for it; but where are the funds coming from?
THis has got to be the stupidest question of all time.
How do you think we are paying for healthcare NOW?
Seriously- Try hard to sit down and follow this thought all the way thru...
Cause you have to be some kind of moron to imagine anyone is talking about ADDING an ADDITIONAL expense.
pharmaceutical companies are charging us 5 times the amount that is profitable in every other country where they don't allow such usury...
HMOs are making their investors rich by charging premiums, denying care and pocketing the difference.
US productivity is falling due to people being unable to get medical care... and due to companies having to pay enormous benefits packages to provide healthcare... and guess the fuck what? the government STILL gets the bill for all the indigent and illegals and the aged...
Health insurers deny coverage to anyone who looks like they might make a claim... this means the costs of our high technology healthcare system are being borne by a steadily SHRINKING number of actual issured...
And guess what that means? RIIIIGHT premiums go UP because fewer people are sharing the risk.
HMO's are paying money to convince right wing dolts that government managed care would be bad--- because they already know that medicare refuses to pay $18 for a single aspirin tablet. and because they know that the government would eliminate the single biggest unnecessary profit taker- namely- the HMOs...
So here's the facts- eliminating the usurious profits taken by people who have nothing to do with providing actual care, and making ALL working americans pay for health insurance coverage, where NO ONE is denied means that the exact same healthcare will COST less and the risk be spread across far more insured...
ERGO how much money we spend on healthcare will FALL.
Get it? "
How will we pay for it" is an imbecilic advertising jingle drummed into your heads by folks who are spending millions of dollars to try and convince you its a bad thing...
where are they getting those millions to spend?
The question is, what are we going to do with the EXTRA money most of us will have from being able to get more affordable health care?
The question is, given the aging population and the fact that HALF of them can not get insurance- and that ALL of them will end up on medicare anyway, HOW CAN WE AFFORD TO KEEP PAYING FOR HEALTHCARE AS WE ARE NOW?
The answer is simple... free markets ONLY drive down prices when the buyer can defer purchasing. If you need medical care you HAVE to buy it... you have a literal gun to your head... and in that kind of situation free markets always end up in price fixing and market manipulation... ( see ENRON- the recent Gas crisis and Water politics for examples )
It is immoral to profit excessively from the suffering of others.
nationalize healthcare now---
Here's how easy it would be--- pass a law stating that insurers MUST offer health insurance and that they can not deny coverage to any applicant.
And then sit back and watch as the health insurance corporations suddenly start spending money to push the agenda that EVERYONE has to have coverage...
How will we pay for it... sheesh...
That's like saying, wow- if we aren't gonna be able to ship by Fed Ex how are we gonna afford to pay for the same service at half the price from the Post Office?