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In reply to the discussion: ... Wait for the Medicare For All bill to be analyzed by a respected and independent think tank [View all]ehrnst
(32,640 posts)38. Actually, no, they didn't transition from what we have to Single Payer.
Can you name which countries that did, in case I'm not aware of one? And please define what your defintion of "market system" is - no insurance mechanisms whatsoever, where it's between you and the doctor alone? Or a system where there was private insurance as "the market?"
Also, do you know how many countries actually have single payer? Very, very few - the vast majority have multi payer systems.
There is much confusion on the difference between universal health care coverage and Single Payer. And apparently much confusion and misunderstanding on how other countries acheived universal health care coverage.
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... Wait for the Medicare For All bill to be analyzed by a respected and independent think tank [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2017
OP
What makers you think you have any power or right to force people to play your rules?
wasupaloopa
Sep 2017
#12
Those social programs started with nothing like them in place. We already have
wasupaloopa
Sep 2017
#14
The rich will always get better healthcare. Even with single payor or medicare for all.
JoeStuckInOH
Sep 2017
#6
There is literally zero chance the US outlaws private practices outside medicare.
JoeStuckInOH
Sep 2017
#42
That's fine, but are they saying that all healthcare spending in the country would add up to...
TCJ70
Sep 2017
#17
Do you know how large a project gutting and rebuilding that section of the GDP would be?
ehrnst
Sep 2017
#28
plenty of other countries have transitioned from a market system to single-payer
beachjustice
Sep 2017
#37
I hope all the facts about going from what we have now to single payer are put on the table.
wasupaloopa
Sep 2017
#15