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Baobab

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3. SINGLE Payer means just ONE payer, no insurance companies, no tiers, every doctor 'in network'
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 08:47 PM
Mar 2016

One plan, one payer, all the other healthcare everything is just one, and they pay all of the bills. the minte you change anything, especially letting the wealthy go somewhere else, or having 'supplemental' payers, also it has to be free, so you avoid having a punishment tier.. The whole idea is people go to the doctor when they get sick which makes it cheaper- Doctors have a fraction of the paperwork they do now and much smaller staffs.. Same with hospitals, they dont have to collect money - its a radically different world where money is not the determinant of care at all, in fact its not involved..

Also, thats the trade rules, to avoid privatization and the crapification and eventually, soon, globalization, that comes with it a services sector has to be free... (It also has to have predated the trade deal but lets ignore that for now, and assume the standstill starts when TiSA is signed, not in 1995)

You've been suckered in by the campaign - whomever runs it - it definitely exists - to confuse the public as to what single payer is.

One thing we know however, at least in 2006, Maine wrote an explanation of what was really standing in their way.

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