[quote]BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]BlueCollarTr8n wrote:
[quote]Zen Taco wrote:
This is just the step to crash private healthcare and get people asking the government for more intervention.[/quote]
Healthcare in the US crashed in the mid-nineties; of course if you’re younger than 40 you wouldn’t know. The ACA is certainly not the answer, but what was going on the last twenty years wasn’t much better. [/quote]
And to the single payer deal… That would be asking a huge, and when I say huge, I mean HUGE, industry with a ton of money to just turn over and give up their revenues?
No, the individual mandate means no single payer. Because the individual mandate, much like with college tuition, means demand will always be there, and that means prices can go up. The revenue increases insurance companies will see over the next 10-15 years will prevent government from being able to take them over…
You think “Wall St” is evil and cronies? You haven’t seen anything yet.
Single payer doesn’t have a prayer until the babyboomers die, assuming birthrates stay depressed. [/quote]
The answer will be increasing the eligibility for medicaid to 10x the poverty level. [/quote]
Yeah, that would be the only way to do it is basically just make medicare/caid open enrollment.
The two problems with this is though:
- Getting enough votes. Hi companies will buy a lot of favor
- the needed increases in payroll taxes will hit the voting base of both parties…
Unless the moment is right (national calamity maybe) single payer might end up being political suicide.
HOWEVER: I do willingly admit the leftist and statist have currently won the culture war, and we are likely to seen nothing but expansive government in our country until I die or am dragged to a re-education camp.
So given that, I could be wrong here.