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Is it Time for a Single-Payer Health Care System?

As some of  you know, I write a weekly column for NUVO Newsweekly.  This week, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Health Care Act, I penned a column arguing that it was time for a single-payer health care system in this country.

Feel free to give it a read, however, I am warning you now, it is not the single-payer system you’re probably thinking about.

 

 

Posted: 07|5|12 at 9:16 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Dave

    Bingo!  That’s well stated & NUVO needs your input.

  • Ramon

    Yes,  that should have been done years ago.

  • Pascal

    If health care has been farmed out along with the tax collecting necessary to pay for it then the insurance companies are actually tax farmers and you aren’t buying insurance at all?  Under the new Obama scheme, I think it is clear that “health care” is really only taxation.  The information below is a bit suspect for use in comparisons because IMA members tend to be profitable and offer this “benefit”.  There are a lot of companies who don’t subscribe to the idea that when they hire someone they buy into all of his medical history and that of his family extended or otherwise.  As a rough comparison to government employees, however, the numbers below may be of some use.  Teachers, for instance-the public might save considerable by going to consumer driven health care plans…..Not that they or their handlers would do so cheerfully….• The average employee out of pocket is $3,280 • The average employee contribution    for family coverage is $4,728 • Increases outpaced inflation at 7% • 34% of Employers Currently Offer Consumer Drive Health Plans

  • Pascal

    Too, when equipment is automated so as to run unattended night and day, for the most part, then the investor not only “saves” the wage cost of employees, but the “tax” cost as well.  A  few years ago I was offered an interesting consulting job, $100,000 per employee eliminated-almost regardless of the cost of the equipment needed to do so.  Of course, this sort of “productivity” allows for higher wages to the remaining competent employees.  Those higher wages also deter parasites like ISTA, or worse, the thieving UAW.