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In reply to the discussion: Medicare for all is so much cheaper and simpler than subsidizing insurance companies [View all]pat_k
(9,313 posts)15. It can never work for health care because health care isn't a "commodity"...
... responsive to "free market forces."
As I said in a post on another thread:
Discussion of Universal Health Care is also a discussion of the limits of the "free market." Health care is NOT a commodity, and "Free market forces" don't apply. You need the health care you need when you need it. We all need a certain amount of preventative care. Some of us get sick. When we do, we need more. It's not like buying a car, or other commodity. You don't wake up one morning and think "I'd like to start injecting myself with Enbrel, I know it's expensive, but I deserve it!"
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Medicare for all is so much cheaper and simpler than subsidizing insurance companies [View all]
ProfessorPlum
Mar 2017
OP
But if we did do that then how would the CEO's be able to get their obscene pay packages?
dhol82
Mar 2017
#1
But But But......That's........SO-SHUL-ISMMMMMM!!! (Cue Ominous Music: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!!)
ChoppinBroccoli
Mar 2017
#2
The Demand For Treatment Doesn't Go Away; The Mechanism For Payment Just Changes
ChoppinBroccoli
Mar 2017
#4
well, actually a lot of single payers' costs go way down precisely because
ProfessorPlum
Mar 2017
#25
And that is the thinking that makes it impossible to EVER generate the political will.
pat_k
Mar 2017
#14
They should be out there saving the ACA...trying to do anything else plays into
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#21
We can't replace it...we must support it and improve it if given the chance...but that
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#44
Are economy is so strong we actually can afford the waste of subsidizing insurance for everyone
Johonny
Mar 2017
#16