This is why I have original Medicare. I’ve read that if Trump is elected, original Medicare will cease to exist. Gotta keep those health insurance companies rolling in our $$$$!
"Private health insurers take away our free choice of doctors by imposing artificial networks. M4A guarantees free markets. At last we’ll choose doctors in a true free-enterprise system with real competition."
Free enterprise in healthcare? A debatable notion. But to conservatives it's a core tenet. As your examples demonstrate, artificial networks poison a healthy free market. This idea can help sell universal care to conservative audiences -- say, Eisenhower Republicans, who at long last are again gaining a bit of traction.
This is why I have original Medicare. I’ve read that if Trump is elected, original Medicare will cease to exist. Gotta keep those health insurance companies rolling in our $$$$!
Thanks, Eileen. Of course, youre correct. Additionally, the Medicare ocergead rate is 2% whike the average commercial insurance us 17% HR 3421b
Thanks for spotlighting "out of network". A few years ago, I penned a post, "The Surprising Conservative Case for Universal Healthcare" (https://medium.com/@idember/universal-healthcare-the-surprising-conservative-case-656d23617a3a). It started off with this point:
"Private health insurers take away our free choice of doctors by imposing artificial networks. M4A guarantees free markets. At last we’ll choose doctors in a true free-enterprise system with real competition."
Free enterprise in healthcare? A debatable notion. But to conservatives it's a core tenet. As your examples demonstrate, artificial networks poison a healthy free market. This idea can help sell universal care to conservative audiences -- say, Eisenhower Republicans, who at long last are again gaining a bit of traction.
Those are excellent points, Thank you, Ira.