SpinnerofTales
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Why is a government monopoly a "better solution"? ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY
Well, one thing that leads me to that belief is the old adage, "follow the money". First to note is that the insurance companies have spent half a trillion dollars fighting against the single payer system. Second, since single payer and a public option has been take off the table, insurance company stocks have been rising at a rather impressive rate. What I draw from that is that the belief among the financial community is that the insurance companies are going to make even more profit off the current plan than they were before. Since the insurance companies, with their almost openly flaunted policy of "take the premiums and deny coverage" business model stand to make even more money with single payer off the table.
These things do not make me feel as if the underlying, systemic problems that have been driving health care costs until one out out over every two bankruptcies occur due to medical expenses, and the fact that projections are for the cost of insurance to double over the next decade, are going to be fixed by a non-single payer plan.
Oh...and there's the little matter of the single payer idea working in country after country elsewhere in the world. It has been noted that all the "socialized medicine horror stories" aren't being told by those who live in the countries where such a plan is in effect. They are being told by those in this country who don't want to see a much needed change adopted.
That's why I think a single payer plan is the way to go.
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