Which do you think would be best for Healthcare in the US?
Having to pay for health insurance to ensure treatment or having a system like the UK where you pay National Insurance weekly from your wages to pay towards it?
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Kerrigan · 41-45, F
first - the cost of healthcare, and the cost of healthcare INSURANCE are two separate things. It's like having a "automotive" policy that doesnt consider the price (or cost) of cars, but only the cost of how to insure it. Classic political manipulation.
I think there is a compromise that would be win-win. Expand medicare to become a "saftey net" of coverage for all. It would cover children from 0-18 and full time students until 26. It would be bare bones and require less than a 2-3% pre-tax increase in FICA.
The insurance market can then create premium plans that cover the things that medicare doesnt, optimizing it's coverage area and network.
I think this would significantly reduces cost and risk to the point that everyone wins.
Will this happen? ROFL!! I'm not that nieve.
I think there is a compromise that would be win-win. Expand medicare to become a "saftey net" of coverage for all. It would cover children from 0-18 and full time students until 26. It would be bare bones and require less than a 2-3% pre-tax increase in FICA.
The insurance market can then create premium plans that cover the things that medicare doesnt, optimizing it's coverage area and network.
I think this would significantly reduces cost and risk to the point that everyone wins.
Will this happen? ROFL!! I'm not that nieve.