NuRayZ said:
sorry i meant to say millions stay sick and/or die over health insurance. More sick than death obviously
That may be true but like I said in my last post, if we can lower the cost doctors have to pay to practice medicine it will also lower the cost to visit the doctor. Even if insurance doesn’t go down for a while, if the cost of visiting a doctor can be cut in half then people will be more willing to pay out of pocket to go.
Lack of tort reform is why the majority of doctors are opposed to this. The unions aren’t but like I said members are leaving them in droves because they’re fighting to push their own agenda as opposed to representing the wishes of doctors.
I mean think about it, if a doctor is paid less for the same service (similar to medicare) and have to pay the same fees to practice then that means less or no profit. To make up for it they’ll push people through the clinics as fast as possible to make up for lost revenue. This drains the government budget faster than anticipated because all those people who built up illnesses for decades are now being treated all at once and as fast as doctors can manage. Next the government will cut back and make doctors see less people while they attempt to balance the healthcare budget. This creates a “first come, first served” scenario which means people wait in lines before clinics open to be seen. Having been unable to be seen, people will start making appointments weeks and eventually months in advance.
And that my friend is how easy it is to go from an ideal utopian healthcare system to the nightmare Republicans are warning you about. Notice that nothing in that scenario is far fetched or a far stretch from reality, it’s an entirely logical progression starting with 2 known problems that will exist under Obamacare, forced medicare style pricing and high overhead costs such as malpractice insurance. If the paperwork is anything like medicare then it’s likely to actually increase the amount of paperwork and forms they have to fill out rather than reduce it but that’s neither here nor there.
Did I mention this congress doesn’t know how to make anything simple? The cash for clunkers application was around 100 pages long and completely destroys a fully functional vehicle. Sure they’re old but Goodwill and other organizations would have loved to give those away to poor people but instead we’re destroying the engine and tossing them in a scrap yard. The scrap yard owners are livid over this because apparently the most valuable part in a scrap car is the engine. With the value of metal being as low as it is it’s almost not worth it to them to take C4C cars.