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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 5 years ago

What is single payer health care and if we were to implement it, how would if differ from Obama care?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Single payer would be not-for-profit government provided healthcare, just like medicare/medicaid, just for everybody. There would be a tax increase but it sure as hell beats what we have now. There is no earthly reason why going to the doctor, getting a prescription, getting surgery should cost us so much money and that's even WITH insurance. no one should have to choose between paying bills and seeking treatment. Since pretty much every other developed country has implemented this, and it works for them and their citizens, I have no idea why people believe we should be any different.

    ACA has nothing to do with single payer. That law just no longer allows insurance companies to deny you coverage, among other things. So, more people do have access to insurance, but its not good enough.

  • 5 years ago

    There is no profit making entity in the single payer plan. The "insurance" and the "care" are all provided as services of the government, just as police services and food safety inspections are provided as services of the government. You know how you don't get a bill for police services or food safety inspections, these are just part of what your taxes pay for? With single payer, taxes pay for health care services like that. Health care becomes all about helping people be healthy instead of all about extracting money from them.

  • 5 years ago

    Its where government provides everyone's healthcare. It would also cause massive tax increases to implement

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    duh

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