Weiner E-Mail: Medicare Buy-In Is Path to Single Payer

[kpete]

‘The details are still sketchy, but there is one remarkable element of the emerging plan: the expansion of the smart single-payer health care plan that serves over 43 million Americans—Medicare,” Weiner e-mailed.

“Extending this successful program to those between 55 and 64, a plan I proposed in July, would be the largest expansion of Medicare in 44 years and would perhaps get us on the path to a single payer model,” he said. “Medicare provides health care to all Americans over 65 and has an overhead of barely 1%. In a debate that hasn’t focused enough on how to genuinely contain costs and deliver affordable health care, this is one idea I like a lot.”

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/12/whats-good-about-the-senate-he.html#ixzz0ZDJyTebo

[waterscalm]

1. I am not going to get excited over anything Weiner says at this point.

[NYC_SKP]

2. I wonder why the unrec....

:wtf:

Thanks for the post.

[DJ13]

3. If the internet was around in the mid 60's thats what would have been said

about the original Medicare bill.

It was sold by claiming it would supposedly be improved to a true single payer system in the not too distant future.

While Medicare as it has become is great, that still isnt happening 45 years later.

[Shagbark Hickory]

4. Weiner can bite me. These new members will have to PAY a premium. It's not an entitlement.

It'll likely be very expensive too.