What are your thoughts? From the left or the right. No belittling or name calling. I’d just like to hear a variety of ideas.
Personally, I think healthcare is a human right and that there should be a public option. I don’t support Medicare for all. It is too broken, docs couldn’t pay off their student loans and it would cost too much. I’m more a proponent of the German system. There was a private option and a government option. Both plans had fees directly withdrawn from your paycheck. The employer also contributed. For that, you got basically free care for anything. The differences that I noticed were really on who provided care. Thomas had private insurance, got a single room, and was seen by the chief of the department. I had the public option. In the hospital, I saw the residents and shared a room. Outside of the hospital, I saw the same doctors as Thomas, got same day appointments, and paid pennies for prescriptions.
I have written this in the past tense, but this is how it is.
People have a choice about their plans.
Of course, 90 year old grandma with end stage cancer doesn’t get chemo, she gets hospice because there are limits on what can be spent. That’s a conversation we will have to have here as well.
Kris
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Personally, I think healthcare is a human right and that there should be a public option. I don’t support Medicare for all. It is too broken, docs couldn’t pay off their student loans and it would cost too much. I’m more a proponent of the German system. There was a private option and a government option. Both plans had fees directly withdrawn from your paycheck. The employer also contributed. For that, you got basically free care for anything. The differences that I noticed were really on who provided care. Thomas had private insurance, got a single room, and was seen by the chief of the department. I had the public option. In the hospital, I saw the residents and shared a room. Outside of the hospital, I saw the same doctors as Thomas, got same day appointments, and paid pennies for prescriptions.
I have written this in the past tense, but this is how it is.
People have a choice about their plans.
Of course, 90 year old grandma with end stage cancer doesn’t get chemo, she gets hospice because there are limits on what can be spent. That’s a conversation we will have to have here as well.
Kris
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