Using old Cuban cars as the jump point Bill Maher asks us to stop fixing things that don’t work and make new things that do, primarily this is a call for single payer health care.
The polls. In 1940 53% of Americans favored a single payer system today it is 58%. 81% of Democrats and 35% of Republicans.
Definition. Single payer system is a payroll deduction from all to give health care [not health insurance] to everyone.
Other systems. Most all single payer systems in the world come as payroll deductions dispensed to insurance companies working in a NON PROFIT sector. They make their profits on supplemental plans and other venues. Only Great Britain has a government owned and operated healthcare system, the rest are hybrids of one sort or another.
Make it simple. 48% of Americans do not like Obamacare. How many of those, like me, don’t like it because they want a single payer system instead? Indeed the ACA is a confusing mess. The starting point is both obvious and simple, just change the words in Medicare from “65 and over” to “everyone.”
What it covers. Preventative and catastrophic for all with special attention to the young, the old and pregnant women. The rest can be worked out as we go.
What it costs. Fixed sum or percentage of income per month. Say 5% or $500 a month. Our system now is mostly paid by employers, just take what it costs them per employee now and transfer it to the monthly payroll deduction and we each pay the difference which will be less than what we pay now for better results.
The rest of the civilized world does single payer and they are happy with it no matter what Republicans have to say. Even Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher knew not to touch the most expensive government owned and operated socialist system in the world.
Why we don’t we have Single Payer already. As we can see from the Donald Trump phenomenon, white people do not like supporting non white people in any manner at all. The countries who enjoy Single Payer see themselves as paying into something that everyone just like them gets a value in return. On the other hand in America the overwhelming perception is that people like us pay into something [anything] to give the store away to PEOPLE UNLIKE US.
Let me ask. How white is Donald Trump? And when anyone goes there, Republicans scream louder about conservative correctness than any Democrat does about Political Correctness.