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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
It depends on what it will cost, what services it will pay for and how the costs will be shared.
One of the hardest burdens on business are heath care costs and health problem related worker absenteeism.
In principle I think a single payer might be better. I think there is a place for supplemental insurance also -- better terms -- you can buy better than the basic.
The alternative is every man for himself or chaos and bedlam -- that is the plan the Republicans produced and failed miserably at.
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No employers already pay a large sum for heath insurance and then the empoyees pay even more on top of that. If we had single payer all that money going to insurance companies goes away. For a single person its like 50-100 a week a family might be 400-600 a month and then there is the money the employer pays.
Single payer will be ridiculously cheaper. There would no longer be any middle man and the pharma/heath industry costs would be pushed down as the result because they couldnt hide their prices from the govt.
Sure you might get a tax increase but you wouldnt have a insurance bill and no deductibles your out of pocket will be much less. People who whine about us getting single payer are fucking idiots. The price goes down end of story with single payer.
Tax payers will benifit with single payer, under the current system its big insurance, pharma , lobbyist and health care industry who benifits while the people get screwed.