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(Assoc. of American Physicians and Surgeons)
The Mueller bombshell was a dud, so the Democrat party and their colleagues in the media immediately pivoted to healthcare. Bruce Bialosky is a contributor to Townhall. He has a good roll-out of what is and is not true of the
Progressive’s trumpeted “Medicare For All” plan; He cites facts and also draws
from his own experience in the system. Here are a few extracts:
Medicare is a program begun in 1966
to cover people 65 years of age and older. The program is to be paid
through lifelong payroll tax payments akin to social security. Unlike
social security, the benefits are not related to how much you have paid into
the program. An important point to understand is (for most people) the vast
majority of medical expenses are incurred near the end of one’s life. When the
program was established, it was not anticipated that people would be living as
long as they do. This has also driven up costs; i.e., keeping older
people alive.
As an aside, Medicare covers for
pre-existing conditions. 180 million people who are covered by corporation
health insurance also are covered for pre-existing conditions as well as those
covered by Medicaid. That is over 90% of Americans, so we can dispense with
that canard. Some politicians want you to believe people are threatening
to take away coverage for pre-existing conditions when that is just not
true.
. . .
. . . Medicare is far from free.
Less paperwork and figuring out what is or isn’t covered notwithstanding,
decisions still have to be made under Medicare unlike what has been stated by
some politicians.
. . .
. . . Medicare for All is a
nice saying, but very misleading. First, Medicare comes with a cost for
all and that would have to be factored in - it is not free for anyone
despite all you paid into the fund. Second, it does not cover everything
as some politicians lead you to believe. Third, if you want to keep your
doctor, you may not be able to do so.
The truth is Medicare for All is
just a ploy to further move us to government controlled and administered health
care. I have been writing this point for years and wrote that Obamacare
was just a step along the way. The Left continues making private insurance
more and more difficult to administer and then belittles the insurance
companies for their operations. There is one goal here: to have complete
control over the health care system and then we will be at the lowest common
denominator for the health care we receive.
As you have been told before, just
look at the health care administered by the VA. The Trump administration
has finally freed our veterans to see private care practitioners. Thank
God. Please don’t make the rest of us suffer the fate of our veterans
being covered by government-run insurance.
Lots more here.
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