Can someone explain to me why we can't pay for health care how we pay for school?
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Anonymous
| Like how we pay for public schools using tax dollars? |
Anonymous
| So you want health care to be linked to property taxes? |
Anonymous
Is that so much worse than what we have now? Besides I said like which is not an exact correlation. Why can't we pay in like a tax? |
Anonymous
Would that be because Americans don’t believe in publicly funded, universal healthcare? |
Anonymous
Because that would make health care available to everyone, like education is, but apparently when it's healthcare it's socialist. Or something. |
Anonymous
| Because American public education is a beacon for how to spend money and achieve results?? |
Anonymous
| Honestly it’s not that different than what we do now. The poorest people have Medicaid. The wealthiest people pay more for better quality. The only difference is that some people “opt out” and don’t pay for anything. |
Anonymous
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No thanks. I think the biggest issue is that there's a lot of disagreement about what health care is and whether it should be funded. Some people go for platinum plans that pay for cosmetic dermatology, therapists and expanded mental health coverage. I really like the health care I've always received through work.
And yeah, funding it by property taxes is wild. I'd like to live in the thin, healthy, active part of town please! |
Anonymous
| I don't get it either OP. Our taxes already pay for the most expensive people to have healthcare (old people and disabled people) so what's the big deal offering it to us relatively healthly folks too? |
Anonymous
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I don't know, it's dumb we don't. I guess at this point the main reason is "because the health insurance lobby is too powerful."
One thing I look forward to about getting older is getting on Medicare. I know we'll need supplemental insurance too, and that Medicare has it's downsides. But I just look forward to the continuity of knowing what my base coverage is going to be for the rest of my life. I hate how much time and energy I have put into simply managing my health insurance (not using it, just managing it) in my life. What a waste. |
Anonymous
| You clearly have never had to use healthcare from military care facilities. There are *lots* of problems with government run healthcare. Civilian care is much more efficient. |
Anonymous
I'm not OP, but paying for it doesn't have to translate into running it. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| If we're following a system, I think the Kaiser permanente system is the one to follow. Get rid of pharmacies and just use Kaiser. |
Anonymous
One “big deal” is that many people stay in toxic job situations to maintain health care coverage for themselves and their families— particularly if pre-existing conditions are an issue. So some corporate powers may not like this. Others — whose business plan includes having massive numbers of low paid employees on Medicaid and even food stamps might be fine with it. Another big deal is that some people— many receiving publicly funded benefits of many kinds themselves— don’t want “others” to “leech off the public teat” or something, something. Decades of effective propaganda. Just mumble “communist” or “socialist “ and that’s enough for some people to be vehemently against it. Yes, folks, even those people who enjoy using interstate highways, national parks, and taking advantage of mortgage deductions. It would be so much cheaper to have basic medical coverage for everyone— with additional private coverage for people who want it. |