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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think everyone should be entitled to basic Medicaid, with nominal fees paid for service. $10-50 based on HHI. Remove the illusion of choice and just tax. Reform medicare so that we aren't spending a ton of money to keep old people alive. Death panels, if you will. If you want to give your 92 year-old grandmother new knees than you have to pay for it.

Employer-sponsored private insurance will still exist, as well as FSA to incentivize citizens to pay for their own services if Medicaid isn't to their liking. And companies that offer private insurance will be able to reduce their Medicaid tax burden.

Set it up where Medicaid is competing against private insurance.

Tell me why this wouldn't work.[/quote]

This is exactly what I want to happen as well.  Basic care covered, expensive end of life care coverage eliminated.[/quote]
First, how are we going to pay for Medicaid for everyone? As it is, the program is bankrupting the states. If you say switch the burden to the federal government, well again....where's the money going to come from? Taxing the wealthy more - the liberal solution to everything - in no way would raise enough revenue to give everyone Medicaid.

Second, the Obamacare exchanges are a step up from Medicaid. It's almost a Medicaid program that provides free insurance for a good segment, and then a "buy-in" for people with modest incomes. The problem is that reimbursements are so low to doctors that many refuse to take the plans at all, and when you do find one, the wait is excruciating. Once Hillary fast-tracks the millions of illegals to citizenship, it will be even worse.

As far as the death panels, is there an age we should just let people die? And will we refuse aid for everything (just painkillers), or for major diseases? For example, if an 85-year-old breaks a hip, but is otherwise healthy, csn she get it fixed? Or should she just stay bedridden, which will bring on pnemonia and death? The only way I'd support this if it were limited to someone with a terminal illness, in the end stage with 3 months left, no hope of recovery, with no quality of life left, and age 90+. [/quote]

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