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Originally Posted by fishbones
Johnny, I've spent a lot of time looking into this plan and it's pretty freakin' scary. The government plans on accessing participants banking and personal finance records, along with any other personal information (either published or not) that they deem fit to collect. Talk about big brother watching over you.
Oh, and one of my favorite things in the entire document is in section 441. It reads “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.” Good, then I won't feel guilty if I don't pay it.
Although I think healthcare needs an overhaul, these are some of the reasons I'm not convinced that the government is the right entity to do it.
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I'm dead on with you sir. Working as an EMT and my girlfriend fishing up her degree to be a PA, I've been intimately involved with the treatment part of health care. The 80/20 rule intimately applies here - 20% of the people take up 80% of the cost.
One item about this "let's get everyone insured" that annoys me: for the bottom 15-20% of the population, the government is paying the bill. They need to determine how to reduce costs on the treatment side of things, determine where costs are exploding and how wait times can be reduced.
One example I have used many times before: CT Health (state medicaid) used to (and possibly still do) require anyone going to the hospital to go by ambulance. I have literally driven someone across the street for a head cold.
Hospitals get used as PCP offices.