WHY SINGLE-PARTY PAY - OR MEDICARE FOR EVERYONE - IS IMPOSSIBLE AND BAD

Financially it's impossible: Medicare & Medicaid would be a disaster because under the present system EVERYONE who works pays into a system which is only covering the SENIORS - folks who themselves have paid into the system for 40 years - and it's already going broke.

And it's rife with corruption. (Because people perceive it as Third Party Pay and don't watch what gets spent!)

The KUCINICH KRUGMAN KROWD think that we could just shift the premiums into taxes an everything would be hunky-dory.

REALLY!? Why not just takeover FEDEX, then?! You know why it has to fail: without the PROFIT motive and COMPETITION thee is now incentive for increasing value for the consumer.

None. As FEDEX would devolve into the USPS, so would ALL our healthcare devolve into an inefficient MEDICARE program.

Also demographics mean it will fail: Social Security and Medicare are PONZI SCHEMES --- if you don't have MORE people joining EVERY YEAR then you must keep raising the amounts that everyone has to input.

The only real answer - the only REAL WAY to improve health coverage in the USA is to end the PONZI SCHEMES and privatize SS and Medicare.

YES, THAT'S RIGHT: UNDO BOTH OF THESE VESTIGES OF THE NEW DEAL AND THE GREAT SOCIETY!

This would be a sound solution - financially, economically and morally.

yes morally: it is more moral for people to take care of themselves.

It is inherently a huge immoral danger for the government to be in the position of deciding health issues for those it pays pensions to: by denying service the government would reap a double savings - it would save on the medical expenses and the pensions!

As government run healthcare systems INEVITABLE come under financial stress due to demographics, the pressure to deny service and ave medical expenses and save pension payouts becomes bigger and bigger. In Britain they've announced a $45K cap on end of life care; (if care costing $45K can't extend life for one year, then they won't spend it. After this threshold comes the "QUALITY OF END OF LIFE" threshold, and so on).

And MEDICARE is GROSSLY UNFAIR TO WORKING PEOPLE: let's you pay in your whole working life - let's say from 25-65 - at a rate of $5000 per year. That $200,000 without interest. Then, when your 65 you start to need it. And then the government puts caps on it. CRAP: Most people don't spend anywhere near $200,000 on their end of life - so they're getting screwed --- screwed by those who do need MORE and by the corruption and waste and over-testing for defensive medicine.

And when they die all the money they didn't spend via Medicare or collect via SS goes - NOT TO THEIR KIDS - but to the GOVERNMENT! Thus perpetuating poverty among the working class!

Social Security and Medicare are truly the OPIATES of the masses!

THE REAL SOLUTION IS SIMPLE, AND IT WOULDN'T TAKE 1000 PAGES TO WRITE IT UP EITHER!

Pass tort reform: (1) allow interstate competition for healthcare insurance, (2) allow more plans to be offered without mandates - like catastrophic health insurance with big deductibles, (3) allow and encourage medical savings accounts, and (4) give poor families VOUCHERS for healthcare.

SINGLE-PAYER OS THE ROAD TO ILL-HEALTH: FINANCIALLY AND MEDICALLY!