[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=spdrun]Sanders is rising because public health insurance for all (with additional private insurance) is a good idea compared to the jumble we have today. Health care is not a free market anyway, since it’s often bought under duress. So is bringing college costs in line with historical norms. The rest of his ideas are nothing all that special.
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I agree.
Young people know and because we are becoming more of a gig economy; and they want to be freed from health insurance premiums altogether. Young people are healthy so they don’t really care about rationing which is inevitable under a public system.
But older boomers with insurance who are used to unlimited health choices (paid for by others) will not like it. These heavy users of the health care system don’t care about costs because they don’t see the bills.
I’m mystified why conservatives who believe in rationing (after all, we are not entitled to everything and anything we want) don’t want health care reform to force lower health costs (abstractly speaking to mean a smaller share of the economy), and to incentivize people to ration their own uses of health services, all the while providing universal coverage.[/quote]
FIH, I’m in that group you speak of here and have never been a “heavy user” of healthcare. Many “boomers” are into holistic practices and alternative (other-the-counter or homeopathic) medicine in place of narcotics for pain and the whole gamut of SSRI’s that so many people of all ages rely on to get thru their day. I don’t know about you but I have personally seen ALL my medical bills (and the EOB’s which paid all or a portion of them) my entire adult life. A policyholder of a medical indemnity plan or member of a PPO will see ALL their bills. A member of an EPO or HMO will not. Even an eligible beneficiary using Tricare Standard (a Federal govm’t funded healthplan akin to a PPO) sees ALL their bills.
But you’re damned straight that I don’t want my “choice of providers” taken away from me, nor do I want a “gatekeeper” calling the shots as to whether I can have a certain kind of care …. or not. If the US adopts universal healthcare before I turn 65, I will waste no time in signing up for a supplement to give me greater control over my own care and a greater choice of providers, just like those Medicare recipients do who sign up for PPO supplements for their MC Part B and D coverage (as opposed to the urban MC-recipient sheeple who sign up for an [HMO] “Advantage Plan”).
