On Fox News, Charles Krauthammer predicts America will have single-payer health care within 7 years
Charles may very well be right, what could have been killed in the very beggining is now become yet another "benefit" for everyone, and yet no one, ever, ever mentions how it is paid for. Nor do they mention the inevitable quality that goes into the crapper. Even today, when you pay them with your own health plan, doctors take 3 or 4 visits spend thousands on tests, and then tell you you need a happy pill because it is all in your head, please move on... No quality, no real medical skill needed. Once single payer gets entrenched, you will have 2 classes of health care: One for the peasants (90% of us) and one for the wealthy (who will pay for exclusive access to "private" doctors. The issue is, the 90% end up dying while waiting 6 months to a year for an appointment. Funny thing is, you never hear a groundswell of complaint, as it becomes "the norm". Just like having corrupt politicians is the "norm"...O Brave New World...
Republican politicians are looting scum, little better than Democrats, but the people who vote are too brainwashed to understand the truth.
The situation is revolting. Why aren't we?
This country is finished in the long haul. The destruction of the dollar will do it in at some point.
GOP=Dems
There is no lesser evil.
Socialist Government constantly makes mathematically, economically impossible promises. That will never change, but the liberal voters do not respond to reality. They respond to fairy tale unreality only and elect total failures like Obama, Clinton, Carter, Johnson, JFK, Truman, FDR. America might have been better off under dictatorship instead of that list of traitors.
I don't know the specifics of AHCA, but I do know it preserves the requirement that insurance companies ignore preexisting conditions, which means they will all have to go on being subsidized or go broke. That is what would lead to single-payer.
I say don't leave em in the cold, putt hem in the cold. Freeze them until a cure is found and stop wasting resources on keeping them "alive" for a few months until the insurance runs out,
(sarcasm on)
Diagnosis means the requirement for treatment, so dont diagnose.
Here is one resource:
http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/...
I can personally vouch for medical and dental in Thailand, and dental in Panama. I have heard that some cities in Mexico offer good quality care, too. There are 2 good hospitals that I know of in Bangkok. One caters to western tourists and is more expensive. The other caters to Thais and has a very good reputation among tourists who have had procedures there. I can't attest to any specifics.
The 20th century's industrialization led to overcrowding, pollution and global warming due to "the greenhouse effect". In 2022, 40 million people live in New York City; housing is dilapidated; homeless people fill the streets; many are unemployed; those few with jobs are only barely scraping by and food and working technology are scarce with most of the population surviving on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. Their latest product is Soylent Green; a green wafer advertised to contain "high-energy plankton" from the World Ocean, more nutritious and palatable than its predecessors "Red" and "Yellow" but in short supply.
Soylent green is People!
What's next, what else can we get the government to take control of and mange for us, and at what cost? All it takes is to just get it started, it doesn't have to be right or perfect, and "they" will jump on the bandwagon. It will never again revert back to free enterprise. It gives whole new meaning to letting the cat out of the bag.
It's bad enough that the Medicare most everyone has been forced to pay for (like forever) That's bad enough but of course then they piled on Zerocare which will pretty well tip over the applecart.
That existed before the AMA was given control and wrecked the supply of practitioners. Prior to that, it was called the free market. Government will never bring back such a plan. The only way the free market returns is to starve the federal government to death. The double evils of the GOP and the Dems will not do anything to reduce their power. The replacement of ACA is a perfect example of how they betray the people every single time.