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RE: Medicare For All, In America, Will Cost Americans Less Than Private Health Insurance
I’d rather pay more and get private care. The VA and NHS are a disaster. Why would we want to go that route?
I’d rather pay more and get private care. The VA and NHS are a disaster. Why would we want to go that route?
Private health care or private health insurance...? Whether healthcare is private or government, does not matter because a single payer government health insurance program will pay for either one. So I really don't care if the VA is shutdown or converted to private ownership after a single payer healthcare system is made available to every American.
Pretty much all healthcare in the USA is private, but they are either paid for with private health insurance or medicare/medicaid which is government health insurance. If you want to keep paying for private health insurance that is certainly your choice you are free to do so, I am not saying private health insurance corporations need to go away... I believe in freedom of choice.
I prefer a single payer system that is funded by taxes (just like medicare/medicaid) for all Americans because it will provide healthcare for every American, even those Americans who are too poor to afford healthcare. So Americans would pay more in taxes, but the increase in taxes would still cost less than Americans have to pay private health insurance corporations in monthly fees and copayments. The article I linked in this post proves that mathematically. Not only that, you can look at any country in Europe that uses a single payer healthcare system and you can see they spend less money on healthcare than the USA does and they provide healthcare to all their citizens.