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Originally Posted by kane
All that said, I still think the only real solution is a single payer system and I don't see that happening in the near future.
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obamacare was only the smallest consence that obama could get through the senat and the congress. it is far away from what he wanted and what would make sense.
if i read statemenst to that topic from americans i have the feeling that every american is a multi millionair - but that is not the case.
the idea of a society is that things are done and paid together. health is one of this human rights what should be available for everybody.
rich people do not need any insurance because they can pay it from their pocket but they can pay it from there because the society made them rich.
basic things in a working society system have to be done from EVERYONE.
you can not say you do not pay for a street becaue you never drive on it.
you can not say you do not need police because you can secure yourself.
you can not say that you do not pay for clean water because you have your own spring in the garden.
you can not say you do not pay for schools because you donīt have children.
you can not ignore the gloabl warming because it happens yet far away
and this list could be 1000 pages long....
if you limit health care on what people are willing to pay for you will never find help when you have a seldom desease - exept you are a billionaire.
health is also not only a factor of medical costs. health is a factor of the gross national prouctivity. sick people canīt use their working power and help a national growth. that is why a society have also a big advantage when people are healthy.
USA never had a working social health system. even third world countries have often better systems. so the only obvious in this discussion is that people who never saw an elefant are fighting if the elefant have 3 or 6 legs.
a single payer system canīt work at all because it is an INSURANCE - you pay for what CAN but not what MUST happen.
and EVERY KIND OF INSURANCE will cost a price that the AVERAGE costs of the insurance company can make profit.
That a home owner can afford a fire insurance is due to the fact that a lot of homes never burn. health insurance is nothing else.