Taxing junk food might take care of SNAP beneficiaries' poor eating habits. No need to punish the poor (twice). "Death Panel" - I do not like that label because it's what insurance companies have today and it won't be different with government-run healthcare. Some treatments will not be covered, and individuals will not be prevented from seeking experimental care.I’m not against the concept of a single payer system or universal healthcare or whatnot. I am against he ACA though because it isnt making healthcare affordable at all. Price keep going up and there’s no mechanism in there to address that at all.
I’d advocate for government sponsored healthcare assuming:
- it wasn’t tied to your job at all, the idea that our employers who (unless we work in the insurance industry) aren’t in the business of managing healthcare but have been tasked with doing it anyways
- we tax junk food. Not sure of the mechanism but we’ve been to the moon I’m sure we can do this. Those proceeds have to go towards the national healthcare fund. It’ll cut down on consumption of junk
- Preventative measures are emphasized over reactionary ones. Do away with the fee for service model and focus on outcomes.
- allow ER's to turn down people. If triage it’s determined they are here for a headache or a cough allow hospitals to deny service and refer them to a walk-in clinic without fear of lawsuits
- Tort reform. Malpractice suits are necessary but there is certainly room for reform
- No junk food using snap benefits. Not sure the best way to regulate that but our poor also have the worst eating habits. Raise the amount they recieve each month because fruits and veggies do cost more, but no cookies or soda etc
- Death panels. Have em. If you don’t like the idea buy private insurance that covers you. Keeping granny alive for another month isn’t worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m not sure how we draw the line here but there needs to be some sense of sanity in healthcare at the end of life.
I’m sure I can come up with plenty others, just a start off the top of my head,
Edit here’s another
- Legalize marijuana and fund research into medicinal uses for it.
Remember them losing their collective shit when Michelle Obama had the audacity of wanting kids to eat healthier food?
Then there is the taxing of risky food items, but republicans want them cheap and readily avaiulable to children because Merica.
Republicans acting like they have the country's best interest in mind when it comes to healthcare is a sad, pathetic joke. Any non-partisan who has been paying attention since the ACA struggle knows this.
Sin taxes do not work. Everyone knows this. Take cigarettes for example....
Sin taxes do not work. Everyone knows this. Take cigarettes for example....
Taxes on tobacco have worked like a charm almost everywhere they were tried. I do not know what you are talking about. Yes, people with disposable income to whom cigarette prices are a chump change will not blink an eye over a few dollars. But for middle-class and low-income household, as well as for minors and young adults, a pack of cigarettes ($15 in NY) is an expensive habit.
Sin taxes do not work. Everyone knows this. Take cigarettes for example....
Cigarettes are a great example of how sin taxes are incredibly effective.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...f51d04-9f05-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html
Fair enough. I was wrong.
Thanks. You too.This is why I'm glad I didn't pile on, and I officially take back refering to you as a kid. I too was wrong. Merry Xmas blackangst1.
Do Republicans not understand how many people will die if ACA is undone. Things like expanded Medicaid is vital. Do they not understand people with cancer will lose their insurance and die without treatment. Do they not care?
Do Republicans not understand how many people will die if ACA is undone. Things like expanded Medicaid is vital. Do they not understand people with cancer will lose their insurance and die without treatment. Do they not care?
I think this is generally right. They see people dying as being "their own fault for not being rich enough to get decent health insurance". Health insurance is a privilege, not a right (like owning a car or getting married and etc).They understand, they don't care.
I think this is generally right. They see people dying as being "their own fault for not being rich enough to get decent health insurance". Health insurance is a privilege, not a right (like owning a car or getting married and etc).
Unfortunately I don't think it's really an ethical viewpoint that is viable.
But in the new filing, signed by three Justice Department attorneys, the administration said that the decision of U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor should be affirmed and the entirety of the ACA should be invalidated.
The government said it planned to file a brief in support of the Texas-led coalition of states pursuing the law’s complete nullification, now that “the United States is not urging that any portion of the district court’s judgment be reversed,” as the filing stated.
“The Department of Justice has determined that the district court’s comprehensive opinion came to the correct conclusion and will support it on appeal,” Kerri Kupec, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, said in a statement.
If the Justice Department’s position prevails, it would potentially eliminate health care for millions of people and cause disruption across the U.S. health-care system — from removing no-charge preventive services for older Americans on Medicare to voiding the expansion of Medicaid in most states. A court victory would fulfill Republican promises to undo a prized domestic accomplishment of the previous administration but leave no substitute in place.
Post this in here instead:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...s-affordable-care-act/?utm_term=.c0d3be85bffa
Kind of a deranged risk to run just because you still hate Obama after the GOP got killed in the midterms in no small part thanks to healthcare. I mean if Trump actually got his way on this the impact would be a political nuke detonating on the party in time for 2020. It would be the ultimate act of self destructive political revenge from people who apparently can't see anything else.
It’s shit like this that proves just how big of a lie #bothsides is.
+ How broken our government is if all you have to do is shop for one ideological extremist, one man, and the healthcare of 315 million people is ruined.
Each individual Judge holds the power of the Constitution in their hands. Elevating them above both elected branches of government. Above both the Congress and President combined. Sure, if the game is played right you can increase that to 9 Judges on the SCOTUS, but how many years is that after the damage is done? And with the partisan divide on the SCOTUS, often it'll still be a single man breaking the deadlock and ruling the nation.