Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "Fox Business" channel.

Well the idea is that costs overall will drop. Hospitals will no longer be working with large insurance companies - or the government, who have massive bank accounts and the ability to pay exuberant prices. Instead they will be working with individuals who have a limited ability to pay and thus prices will have to scale. Mt favourite idea is a hybrid public private system. You can choose to be covered or not, and you will pay a base fee. This will cover basic things, like emergencies, GP visits, mental health. Some things won’t be fully paid for but rather subsidised. Everyone pays the same amount. On top of this you can choose a private supplementary plan, which can offer extra benefits. It will be in conjunction with the public insurance. Things like ambulance insurance, dental, or anything else not covered by the government system.
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It’s not the free market at all. You have insurance companies, lawyers, and huge government regulation. Let alone the huge regulations that stop hospitals from competing. Imagine if you went to go buy McDonald’s, but you had to wait for your insurance company to negotiate a price, and decide for you what you get. It’s almost as bad as a full blown Medicare for all plan - because then it isn’t you, it’s the government that decides
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BrightTV it is when it will cost every family 70k. And electric cars are good, I do see a future, but they just don’t have the range nor the charge time to make up. Plus it will put huge strain on our electricity grid, meaning that if his plans are to completely sgut down 60% of our power, it will need to be replaced quickly. In the plan it also says about ending nuclear power, one of the cheapest Sources in the long run. I’m not going to do the calculations, but I can easily see that not only will this put America trillions in debt, it will raise electricity prices immensely, there is no telling the effect this could have on poor families, and even middle class families- and the us economy. He states 20 million jobs will be made, but there aren’t even 20 million people unemployed. Obviously many of those jobs are going to be replacements of already there jobs - but who paying for those jobs? Not the coal industry. I know I’m just going on, I’m not really arguing against this. Our source of power must change - but is the money going to be well spent. Is cutting out nuclear- currently 20% of the power grid going to help nature when it has zero emissions? I say the best case scenario is for it to be a mix between nuclear, solar and wind.
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The reason some doctors don’t take insurance is money. If an insurance company demands too low of a rate, that doctor will say no.
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They cost America more money than deporting them will. Many don’t pay taxes, but still get welfare benefits
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Waste of time
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Because the rest of the world cares for human rights
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Driouch Nadine much more human rights than that of the Iranian government. The us is the boy country in the world to actually have a persons rights protected in the constitution. No idea why you think the us doesn’t believe in human rights.
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I love how they talk about jobs. Government shouldn’t make jobs, their job is just to make a strong economy that will make jobs for them
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I believe the best system would be government subsidised care. Not full blown Medicare for all, but the government pays a set rate on care, and the patient pays the rest. Let’s say you need heart surgery, the government might pay a fixed rate of $10k. If you choose to go for a better doctor, you would pay that big extra (say the better doctor charged $15k). What does this solve? It leaves healthcare somewhat within the free market, but it also fixes prices around a set point. And people have to pay for their care - so they have still got that incentive to stay healthy
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@johnharvey9112 I said that we get rid of insurance companies, and instead have government “subsidised care”, where the government pays a fixed rate and the consumer can negotiate the quality of care themselves
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@johnharvey9112 and a insurance/uninsured/Medicaid/Medicare/VA system is free market? My system protects poor people, while also still giving the free market the option to innovate and profit. In Australia, that’s essentially what happens. The government will partially cover the costs of public healthcare.
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@johnharvey9112 a no cure no pay system wouldn’t matter in my system. You can select your doctors yourself, not the insurance companies. Bad doctors will get less business, and good doctors will be able to charge more.
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@johnharvey9112 my system wouldn’t need a single payer system, not would it need a private insurance. It’s a subsidised free market system, you decide your treatment and you pay the extra.
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@johnharvey9112 do you know what else single payer does? It drives down the quality of care, drives away new treatments (often times it takes years for new treatments to come in), and it drives up waiting times. I want a system that supports low income families, but still provides a free market system devoid of insurance companies and huge regulation. At the moment, we have a mess, a d the solution isn’t single payer.
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@johnharvey9112 a no cure no pay system would drive hospitals away from diseases with a low chance of survival - like some cancers. It would also mean hospitals wouldn’t use experimental treatments that could save someone’s life.
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I though this was a Onion news show
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Cut military, cut Medicare and cut social security. These things have to be done
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hra820 it is terrorism. They have unlawfully held up a entire area hostage
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Still nothing compared to this 16 trillion dollar plan
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The blueprints of the original construction was probably lost.
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It will take 15 years to pay off the debt, it will force families to purchase electric vehicles, ect. It’s obvious we need to do something, but this is to far. What we really need is for electricity production to be altered, to promote nuclear and wind energy, not just to tax them increasing prices for us.
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