Re: “The US Likely Has 8 Years—At Most—Before Crisis”

On 6/21/2025 4:59 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

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Means testing Medicare will throw a bunch of people like me, middle
income, into the valley of no health insurance.  Throwing us onto
Obamacare is just another cost to the feddies.

 Perhaps you might consider eliminating the vast overhead of
the insurance companies, physician holding companies and
pharmacy benefits managers that consume better than 50%
of every healthcare dollar spent.   Pure overhead with
absolutely no benifit.
 Setup a single payer (perhaps like the post office) and
simplify the billing infrastructure.   Save tons of money.

What is the biggest Single Payer system on the planet ?  Canada with 40 million people ?
Will that work for 350 million people ?
BTW, Single Payer is the same as Medicare for all.  Given that 67 million people are on Medicare in the USA at the moment, expanding that to 100% of the citizens may or may not work.  Will all doctors accept it or will they quit / retire ?  This would be a heck of an experiment.
77 million people in the USA are on Medicaid.  Given that 3 million people word for the feddies with an average of two dependents (SWAG) and 1 million work for DOD with an average of two dependents (SWAG).  So the USA government is already covering 67 + 77 + 3 * 3 + 1 * 3 = 156 million people for healthcare.  That is a large portion of the USA population.
When I was a kid growing up in Oklahoma in the 1960s, we had free clinics all over the place.  My mother used those extensively for vaccines and sniffles.  Those free clinics seem to have gone away.
Lynn