2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Avg health care spend is $6,125 (working age) and $3,628 (child) but Bernie claims you only pay $466 [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Excuse the all caps but this bears repeating.
Healthcare involves life and death and disease and accidents. It costs money. It makes no economic sense because lifer is random and unpredictable. And it is expensive to fix people.
Given that reality, there are two choices. Do you make it an economic priority for the nation to bite the bullet and do everything possible to provide healthcare to everyone, and try to devise a system that is as financially manageble as possible, while realizing it is will not follow nice little economic yardsticks?
Or do we just leave it to "the markets" that are only oriented to soaking the system to make as much priofit as possible off the pain and suffering of people? Do we continue to perpetuate a for-profit system whose only goal is to rake in premiums while denying as much health care as it can get away with?
That is the only basic choice. The GOP obviooiusly prefers the latter market based approach.
The Democrats should be better than that.