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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mark Cuban's Healthcare Fix: We Need a Single-Payer System [View all]
I like it...
http://blogmaverick.com/2017/03/08/some-thoughts-on-fixing-obamacare-shoot-holes-in-this-please/
Whether it's Medicaid or a new program, every single person in this country should be covered 100% for chronic physical or mental illness and for any life-threatening injury.
The premiums that we are paying to insurance companies as individuals or as company coverage for these significant risks would go from the insurance companies to the IRS. Only the cost of covering what's left would continue being paid to the insurance companies.
It would not be hard to do the math. Every insurance company does this analysis already. The government does this analysis already. We all would end up paying more in taxes, but less in insurance and healthcare costs over time.
There would be no mandates. There would be no individual penalties. No tax credits. No subsidies. No offsets or deductions for buying higher end insurance. This will be single payer (yes, I know it's a dirty phrase in this country) for chronic physical or mental illness and for any life threatening injury.
Everything not covered by the above can be covered by insurance sold on the free market, managed by the states, sold across state lines, without government interference.
The premiums that we are paying to insurance companies as individuals or as company coverage for these significant risks would go from the insurance companies to the IRS. Only the cost of covering what's left would continue being paid to the insurance companies.
It would not be hard to do the math. Every insurance company does this analysis already. The government does this analysis already. We all would end up paying more in taxes, but less in insurance and healthcare costs over time.
There would be no mandates. There would be no individual penalties. No tax credits. No subsidies. No offsets or deductions for buying higher end insurance. This will be single payer (yes, I know it's a dirty phrase in this country) for chronic physical or mental illness and for any life threatening injury.
Everything not covered by the above can be covered by insurance sold on the free market, managed by the states, sold across state lines, without government interference.
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This plan would shift the burden of the most expensive treatments to a non-profit gov't program
Kaotic
Mar 2017
#5
We have gov't run defense, law enforcement & judicial system to protect citizens...
Kaotic
Mar 2017
#13
I'm sure if implementation took, say, 10 years they would have time to switch those funds.
alarimer
Mar 2017
#15
He can be a hot head but he's actually quite smart having come up from nothing he has a big clue
NotThisTime
Mar 2017
#36
"There would be no individual penalties." - I'm pretty sure if you didn't pay your taxes there'd be
PoliticAverse
Mar 2017
#31
Single Payer System is the best ever. It is what we have in Canada and it works well.
akbacchus_BC
Mar 2017
#37