This web site has not been active for a few years because the U.S. is victim to the ideology of the Republican party that single payers are government control even “socialism”. This is wrong. The government only acts as the…
Category: Single Payer
Rand Paul and Single Payer ignorance
Rand Paul has caused a stir by deciding to have a Hernia operation in a hospital in Canada. He says the hospital is private and not part of any system. He is ignorant of the facts. All hospitals in Canada…
There are single payers and there are single payers
It is nearly impossible for individual states to go single payer. Vermont failed and California is going nowhere. Not all single payers are created equal. Here is an interesting analysis that also contains an interesting link comparing systems.
How superior the VA really is
The media and especially Republican conservative ideologues are always putting the VA under a microscope looking for faults. If the media focused more on the hundreds of thousands who die every year in corporate hospitals through medical errors, we would…
SEPARATING FACTS FROM FICTION
Misinformation, falsehoods and outright lies are abundant in our health care discussions in the media. Call them what you like. One of these often repeated is that Obamacare dropped the rate of growth in healthcare spending. The following chart shows…
You pay too much for your healthcare insurance no matter who “pays” for it
There is considerable criticism that Medicare for all will be too expensive. It would cost less to divert the money going to the high cost healthcare insurance companies directly to Medicare. The HICs add the following that cost us $300-450…
YOU CAN TRUST HEALTCARE INSURANCE COMPANIES TO BE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES
This is taken from a petition on Change.org. Not only do Healthcare Insurance Companies add an unnecessary wasteful 15-20% to our healthcare costs, but their mindless profit seeking leads to trying to weasel out of paying for claims. Jennifer Huculak-Kimmel,…
THE DETERIORATION OF EMPLOYER PAID HEALTHCARE INSURANCE
American healthcare will continue to deteriorate as long as the present corrupt money driven system remains. Obamacare makes improvements, but is basically more of the same. Caps on out of pocket expenditures were supposed to go into effect in 2014,…
THE BURDEN OF HEALTHCARE INSURANCE COMPANIES
Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Japan don’t use healthcare insurance companies (HICs) to ration healthcare. They can afford to cover everyone with the savings from eliminating the following: HIC sales forces, admin, advertising, profit and outrageous CEO bonuses…