Hello Dale,
Politicians' attempts to control the health care system have failed >BA>every time they've tried it. Despite the propaganda, Medicare does
not and never has paid the cost of health care for the elderly
Medicare never claimed to pay 100% of the cost of health care -- it pays
80%. Then there are supplemental plans that pay the rest. I end up
paying nothing for health care except for a modest deductable at the >beginning of each year.
Some politicians, such as Bernie Sanders, have spoken in favor
of "medicare for all" as their main fix for solving the health care
crisis in the US. Sanders wants to have a single payer "medicare
for all" system with no private insurance plans available. In his
mind, that would do away with the top one-tenth of one percent
getting all the goods at the expense of everybody else.
However, think about what this "solution" would mean.
Sanders' single payer system would result in private companies
bidding for the contract to take over medicare. The winning bidder
would get the contract, and have a monopoly on health insurance.
With no other insurers allowed to play or get back into the ball
game, what do you think will happen?
The state of Louisiana had a system that worked for decades,
thanks to brothers Huey P. Long and Earl K. Long. They came up
with the idea of charity hospitals, where all could be cared
for regardless of whether they had insurance or not. It worked
so well that nobody wanted state government to end the program.
Then came along Piyush "Bobby" Jindal who screwed the pooch by wanting
to cut the state budget to the bone. He wanted to shut down charity
hospitals, and basically succeeded, excepting one small clinic that
housed 12 patients. He even went so far as to wanting to close
veterans hospitals, but that caused such an uproar that he quickly
backed off.
Today a different governor is at the helm. But now that charity
hospitals are a thing of the past, he has to work with what the
state has left. So he chose to expand medicaid, thus giving many
people who did not quality for medicare and could not afford to
pay for private insurance better access to quality health care.
Republicans (all of them Trump sycophants) want to end expanded
medicaid, thus ending whatever little access to quality health care
many people depend on.
Access to quality health care is the first of all human rights.
And yet Republicans want to deny this most basic of all human rights
to the most vulnerable of us, including women who are pregnant.
How many states have recently passed "forced birth" legislation?
Including "forced birth" legislation mandating children who are
victims of rape and/or incest to become mothers against their will?
We live in a sick society. And have yet to find a cure.
But I am convinced there is a cure. And we will find it.
When we do, the bully will be chased off the playground.
Of course, we all know what the cure is. Including those
Republicans who continue to act as sycophants for the bully
they pretend to love and adore.
John McCain found the cure. Not only did he tell us what the
cure is, but he showed us. Thumbs down on Trump's health care bill
to end Obamacare showed it all.
It is time for the rest of America to turn a thumb's down on
Trump's hate program for America. Time for us all to show love
for one another.
--Lee
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