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at140

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11. Healthcare costs are bankrupting many families!

Sun Dec 16, 2018, 03:20 PM

Dec 2018

Medicare is a single payer system and I have been on it for a dozen years already.
Medicare does keep my healthcare costs very low, and actually I am in good health
so my costs are low anyways.

But what I wonder is Medicare is running a large deficit. I keep hearing it will go broke
in a few years. The national debt is already at obscene levels. Where will all this end?
In my opinion some serious reforms are paramount if healthcare costs can be brought
under control.

I don't see how individual states, even large one like California can do it by themselves.
The reforms have to be on federal level, JMHO.

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Single-Payer in California? [View all] SHRED Dec 2018 OP

"insurance corporations have too much influence so there's no way it'll happen, .." at140 Dec 2018 #1

Are you from California? Our State Senate passed SB 562, the Healthy California Act, which is still_one Dec 2018 #2

Have you ever seen health insurance outfits lose money? at140 Dec 2018 #3

Newsome ran on this, and the majority of Californians have made it clear they want something like still_one Dec 2018 #4

I just renewed my ACA through Covered CA yesterday. BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #7

A large part of that is the uncertainty that the republicans have injected. still_one Dec 2018 #8

I just googled the survey and it seems that most BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #9

That is good to hear. He should get the message loud and clear. Thanks still_one Dec 2018 #10

Healthcare costs are bankrupting many families! at140 Dec 2018 #11

My friend who lived in MA had Romneycare BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #12

California often leads the way... Nitram Dec 2018 #5

Yes!! SHRED Dec 2018 #6