spaceguy said:
Yes thats why I wrote it down. You saying you want them to expand medicare to everyone, like it was originally suppost to do. |
To everyone? Hell no. Medicare as an insurance sucks.
I think they should expand medicare to cover more people if reformed... and really that's about it. Just so people without healthcare have the option.
That and limit what counts as "Preexisting causes" and possibly pass a law that states that "Prexisting causes don't count if you were born with them, or insured when they were first detected."
Such laws would cover most prexisting people, and would likely force more people into the market since you couldn't "hide" injuries or diseases.
Furthermore it wouldn't force people to stick with the healthcare plan they had when they got sick.
It'd still probably increase costs modestly... but you really aren't going to end up with a system that both expands coverage and reduces costs.
Not even a single payer system. You'd have to rewrite like half the laws in the country to pull it off and greatly change peoples expectations of healthcare.
Tell the average person in the US they're insurance doesn't cover an procedure because they're too old, and they'll flip out at you for sure.
Although to be fair a large portion of those without Healthcare actually do qualify for medicare and just don't take advantage of it.... I'm guessing that's one of the big goals of the individual mandate. To force the poor who qualify for it to join medicare. (They don't because there are some copays and premiums and deductables, although they are very small. This is needed to stop vast overtreatement.)
