Post #51140 by Lambo on the US Policy board

Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy ❤

Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (160)

Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!

No. of Recommendations: 1

Al:You can't switch to single payer universal health care unless you slash what you pay providers for their services.

Jerry: The entire system--i.e. nationwide--has to be SP-UHC in order for it to work. No state or group of states can do it by themselves. The states NOT participating in SP-UHC system would simply send ALL their old and/or sickest patients to live in the SP-UHC area(s) long enough to obtain residency and thus be covered by SP-UHC. Then their cost shifts to the SP-UHC system. Worth the cost for the non-participating states to fund the temporary period while the relocated people wait for their new healthcare eligibility to begin. So, the SP-UHC system would need a system to deny non-participating states from shifting their health care costs to the SP-UHC.

What is SP-UHC? AI may have it wrong. :)

This is why "You can't get there from here." When I was 15 listening to my Army Doctor father talk against socialized medicine, I didn't realize I was listening to drug and insurance corporations totally interested in market and profit. Would we have to have an amendment to try single payer?

Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!

Print the post

Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (160)

Prev | Next

Announcements

US Policy FAQ

Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

A community forum supporting civilized, and highly helpful, self-educating investors that come together for Shrewdness and merry spirits. These message boards closely follow the look and feel of the old message boards at boards.fool.com prior to the boards redirected to discussion.fool.com. Shrewd'm is not affiliated with the comprehensive and excellent investment website, The Motley Fool (TMF), in any way. The Shrewd commmunity here has owed, and continues to owe, gratitude to The Motley Fool for nurturing a culture of jovial irreverence towards Wall St, and that tradition will continue here.