4. Global Public Healthcare |
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Get rid of all health insurance companies; except that the people who receive and process claims would become civil servants and the bills would be paid by the government. Then the premium that each person is currently paying would become a tax, going to something like the Medicare account. This way whenever somebody requires healthcare services, one need only choose a provider and go. The provider would then bill the government; funds Medicare (or whatever) would pay the provider. Of
course, this would start to remove the profit motive from healthcare which
should reduce the cost since there would be no need to pay obscene executive
compensations or keep stockholders happy with higher dividends and increasing
share prices. If
you like what you currently have understand that were you to become so ill
that you exhausted your life’s savings and ended up homeless, when you die
you would leave nothing to your survivors/heirs. Then they would have to use
the cheapest method to dispose of your carcass. Meanwhile, the rich will have
enjoyed the money you gave them, thinking that your premiums would take care
of your healthcare needs. Under
my proposal, you would not ever have to expend any of your savings since the
combination of the working population will have covered that by everyone
pooling their resources. Then your survivors/heirs can buy a pretty box and a
lovely plot to plant your earthly remains, or whatever you want done with
your cremains. Then if you don’t have a will they can give most of your money
to lawyers to work your estate through probate . . . The
current (and consist for at least a century) powers that be, a bird with two
wings (RNC and DNC) would never go for what I propose, since they get support
from the insurance industry. We need to get rid of both wings and the bird. I
just found out that even Charlie Munger, billionaire, was a proponent of “single
payer” . . . who knew? |
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