US Medicare For All Bill as good as dead now?

[Mr Puggsly]

the-pi-guy said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Personally, I think blue states like New York or California should create universal healthcare at a local level and see how that goes. Force everybody in the state to pay a new high tax they can't opt out of, even those happy with their private option. Then lets wait and see how many people escape or vote red.

As long as the state is actually able to put together a plan that works, that'd mostly be fine.  

The challenge would be that healthy people who are able to move, would be more likely to move out of the state.  And sick people who would want to take advantage of that, would move into the state.  Causing prices to rise.  

A lot of people would be likely to vote red, even if the plan was saving them money.  Because "high taxes" are highly demonized and the blame goes on the government, even though the alternative is paying even more to a company.

That's the thing, if you're confident it could save people money and in theory provide them equal quality of healthcare, it will prove to the country its the best way to provide healthcare.

If states want to provide healthcare for all its population, they can do it with some limits. For example, don't allow people to move in simply to drain healthcare resources, they would not qualify for the state's socialized healthcare. A socialized healthcare system needs be responsible with its resources, something dems seem to ignore when suggesting we should provide free healthcare for countless illegals.

Last edited by Mr Puggsly - on 09 October 2018