With so many screaming for a national health care plan?

Easy, being a non-traditional student the Federal government made it harder to get the aid that traditional students had. Also, considering that Medicare and Medicaid only pay 60% of 80% of the costs to doctors and hospitals, I don't see how another National Health Care Plan would help especially since from what I have heard it is the paperwork for the current Government programs that takes more time than any of the other paperwork for the "evil" private insurers. Finally, considering that Medicare and Medicaid are now deciding when and if a doctor did something that is reimbursable, I don't see how anyone would want this type of system.

The "inept" government republicans rail against was brought to us by republicans who wanted to make government look inept.

What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance?

To begin with, it is NOT “Socialized Medicine”, far from it in fact. Also, it does not mean that our medical system will be taken over by the government and run like the post office as many of our opposition friends would mistakenly have you believe.

Basically, House Resolution (H.R.) 676, the “New Expanded Medicare” bill now in the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of collecting and distributing payments for medical services while leaving the medical system itself completely alone and intact. This will eliminate the hundreds of complicated and redundant payment plans currently imposed on the system by private “for profit” health insurance companies and save literally BILLIONS of dollars every year by eliminating such wasteful duplication. This will allow your doctors offices and hospitals to function much more efficiently and serve your needs much more effectively as well. Just imagine what a huge benefit this will be!

Taxes: We all know that nothing of any real value is ever free, but if you think of the taxes that will be required to support national health insurance as simply a lower cost alternative to the staggering private health insurance premiums that most of us already have to pay but which will be totally eliminated under the new system, then it becomes immediately clear that this could be a really good deal after all!

Check out some of the tremendous benefits that the new Medicare will bring and see what you think:

Every resident of the US will be covered from birth to death.

No more pre-existing conditions to be excluded from coverage.

No more expensive deductibles or co-pays.

All prescription medications will be covered.

All dental and eye care will be included.

Mental health and substance abuse care will be fully covered.(1)

Long term and nursing home services will be included.

You will always choose your own doctors and hospitals.

Costs of coverage will be assessed on a sliding scale basis.

Tremendously simplified system of medical administration.

Total portability – your coverage not tied to any job or location.

Existing Medicare benefits for those over 65 will be vastly improved.

No corporate bureaucrat will ever come between you and your Doctor to deny your care.

(1)The United States has the unhappy distinction of having the largest inmate to total population ratio of any modern country in the world. It is estimated that a full 53% of that inmate population is being confined due to non-violent drug and addiction related issues. The combined costs to society of maintaining such a huge prison population is staggering in so many ways and accordingly, the cost savings to society of this one enormous benefit of national health insurance alone, that all drug and addiction treatment will be covered, is simply beyond calculation.

The real irony is that this new system will be a lot less expensive and provide much better services than the expensive, complicated, insane and dysfunctional system currently in place and still leave us with the best health care system in the entire world, only with the New Medicare… it will be even better!

Don’t be put off by all of the misleading and often inaccurate rhetoric that you so often hear about changing our system. For example uninformed critics will ask “Do you really want your medical decisions made by some government bureaucrat in Washington DC ?” Well, the truth is that with the new Medicare, just about every medical decision will be made privately by you and your doctor. But ironically, under the current system, many medical decisions about what’s best for you are now being made by some corporate bureaucrat working for a private insurance company whose main concern is making larger profits by denying your claims. How exactly does that work out to be better for you??

And don't be fooled and misled by those that will lie to you and try to scare you by making up stories about how terrible similar national health care systems are in other countries. They will tell you about long waits and denied services but when you actually talk to the citizens of these other countries you will find that the vast majority of them deny that any such problems actually exist and speak very highly of the care and treatment that they receive in their home countries. Certainly none of them would ever elect to change their country's system to ours!

Change is indeed often a very scary thing to most people, but when the need is so great and the proposed changes are so much better than the status quo, maybe changing to a single-payer national health insurance system in the USA is something that we can all think about supporting, whether you are a moderate, liberal or conservat

why do you assume that everyone has to be screwed by a gov't program????

i know for a fact that the many programs out there that the gov't has helped many more then it has screwed

just ask any food stamp recipiant or a female that got pregnent and got a medical card, or a mother that has a kid on the CHIPS program and had their childs healthcare takin care of.

stop being bias

No horror stories, I have insurance. But I pay into it with my tax money. One day I will probably have to use it.

I can't imagine those stories being any worse then the ones you hear about insurance companies & just imagine if you have private health insurance, it's your money that's keeping them a float, yet look how they treat their consumers.

I'd tell you but the reality is that you don't want to hear the facts, you only want to hear what you want to hear.