Comments on: Call Today: Support Single-Payer and Women’s Rights in the Senate http://www.healthcare-now.org/call-today-support-single-payer-and-womens-rights-in-the-senate/ Organizing for a national, single-payer healthcare system. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Cliff Summers http://www.healthcare-now.org/call-today-support-single-payer-and-womens-rights-in-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-5432 Cliff Summers Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2972#comment-5432 I think single-payer is the best way go. I don't think the reform plan that they are trying to pass now will be cost effective or do what they are think it will do. cliff summers I think single-payer is the best way go. I don’t think the reform plan that they are trying to pass now will be cost effective or do what they are think it will do.

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]]> By: David Greenstein http://www.healthcare-now.org/call-today-support-single-payer-and-womens-rights-in-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-5397 David Greenstein Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:19:50 +0000 http://www.healthcare-now.org/?p=2972#comment-5397 Upon reaching age 65 almost all citizens quit private insurance to enroll in Medicare. Since Medicare is obviously understood and preferred by seniors, why don't we simply extend Medicare to all citizens? The money we presently spend with private insurers will be more than enough to finance the plan and Medicare will actually be made more cost effective because the younger and healthier citizens added would create a more balanced medicare population Private insurance companies are the problem with our failing healthcare system and not the solution. Continued private insurance dominance in the health care system guarantees more of our failing ways. Medicare,though, can be the solution but it is obvious why Congress will not even discuss Medicare for all. It is the scandalous one and a half million dollars with which insurance companies are bribing congress every single day. Medicare is not perfect and can be improved but it works , provides full freedom of choice, and is much more cost effective than our present complex employer based system of insurance schemes. One additional thought regarding an improvement to Medicare. Health care services covered by Medicare should not be totally free. Recipients should be responsible to pay for a percentage of incurred expenses to ensure that they are responsible consumers. Doctors and hospitals will then be motivated to set and publish fees to compete in the marketplace thus controlling costs automatically Upon reaching age 65 almost all citizens quit private insurance to enroll in Medicare. Since Medicare is obviously understood and preferred by seniors, why don’t we simply extend Medicare to all citizens? The money we presently spend with private insurers will be more than enough to finance the plan and Medicare will actually be made more cost effective because the younger and healthier citizens added would create a more balanced medicare population

Private insurance companies are the problem with our failing healthcare system and not the solution. Continued private insurance dominance in the health care system guarantees more of our failing ways. Medicare,though, can be the solution but it is obvious why Congress will not even discuss Medicare for all. It is the scandalous one and a half million dollars with which insurance companies are bribing congress every single day. Medicare is not perfect and can be improved but it works , provides full freedom of choice, and is much more cost effective than our present complex employer based system of insurance schemes.

One additional thought regarding an improvement to Medicare. Health care services covered by Medicare should not be totally free. Recipients should be responsible to pay for a percentage of incurred expenses to ensure that they are responsible consumers. Doctors and hospitals will then be motivated to set and publish fees to compete in the marketplace thus controlling costs automatically

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