Kantor said:
Mr Khan said:
HappySqurriel said:
Soleron said:
HappySqurriel said:
While I'm against universal healthcare, having government provided health insurance for all citizens to cover non-preventable illnesses and injuries is reasonable ...
After all, preventable illnesses and injuries represent the bulk of healthcare costs which means this insurance would not be that expensive; and since they couldn't prevent the illness or injury the moral hazzard is fairly minimal. |
What is the difference between those two? Do you mean everything except smoking and obesity related illnesses? I don't think people choose to do those things based on whether the state would pay for treatment or not.
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No, non-preventable illnesses and injuries are actually relatively rare ... Most illnesses and injuries have a large element of preventability to them.
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So you mean a safety net for medical injuries incurred through freak incidents of mass murder or a train crash or something?
Sounds good to me. It would certainly be more politically realistic to pitch than universal care, at least.
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Those sorts of things are so rare that it ends up happening anyway, at least in the early stages.
I suppose Obamacare goes some way to ensuring that people have adequate protection for when these sorts of things happen, but I'm not a fan of the methodology.
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Actually... sudden unexpected problems are largely going to be thing Obamacare DOESN'T help... and argueably makes worse.
If "Romneycare" is any prediction for Obamacare... pretty much all the healthcare increase is going to end up being in the expansion of Medicare.
People still won't buy the individual mandate... the tax "penalty" only really falls on those who make a certain amount. (Or so is expected anyway).
Additionally, funding for free clinics and clinics in poor areas are going to have their funding for uninsured patients go down... espiecally areas with lots of illegal aliens.
The group hardest hit by this is expected to be Illegal aliens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/nyregion/affordable-care-act-reduces-a-fund-for-the-uninsured.html?pagewanted=all
