Reply #63: Haha -- Ask most governors that [View All]

[Armstead]

For one thing, it is a major burden on state budgets.

What do you think helped get Ben Nelson to support this bill? He got his state exempted from having to pay their share of the cost of Medicaid.

And Medicaid is NOT single payer insurance. It is a "safety net" for people who can't afford any healthcare otherwise. It is the medical equivalent of food stamps -- necessary but no substitute for a system that doesn't shut out people in the first place.

Plus it puts people on the financial margins -- like the working poor -- in the position of having to bankrupt themselves gto be eligible. Like families that have to wipe out their assets so their elderly patents can qualify for Medicaid in their last years.

Yeah great fucking replacement for a real single payer system that would enable people of all income levels to afford real coverage.

Talk about not making sense.....

PS -- I and others have written plenty about what we believe could be done, and on a "realistic" level. If you bothered to read in the spirit of actually having an exchange of views, insult of just looking for an opening for insults, you might realize that.