Why is health insurance presumed to be necessary in the so-called debates over how to make health care affordable? Are there studies on cost and service benefits of other systems? For example, what would it cost to have doctors and other medical folk be paid fair wages, and payment come from our federal tax coffers, so that insurance was not needed at all? What would that scenario look like and how good quality care be ensured under such systems?
Does the label "socialist" for healthcare mean anything to you? If so, what?
Who is served by not controlling healthcare costs?
Would a system in which the government paid for healthcare directly, without an insurance system, be more socialist than the current system that doesn't work for everyone and barely works for those eligible? If so, in what ways?
Would it change the number of jobs in the health care industry? Would our economy be damaged by rapid phasing out of this area of the insurance industry, which is major loanee to major building projects, for example?
What are some of your experiences with current systems?
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