insurance very inexpensive. In Germany those who a low income pay very low premiums... a lot less than a poor person would be taxed for Medicare for all. Those who earn enough money have to pay co-pays. The fact that they pay co-pays makes it possible for those who are
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Replying to @nevancik1 @angie_keathly and
I know an American student who was a diabetic who pays very little for her medicine and in fact the German Universal Health Insurance system paid for her to have an insulin pump put in. It cost her nothing. She told her German friends that she felt bad that she was getting this
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the United States because we already use it for another government benefit. Social Security was based on the German Universal pension mandate... It would actually be less disruptive for the United States to copy Germany because we already use part of the system already then it
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would be to completely destroy the insurance base system and replace it with a Government monopoly... Many of the major health Finance professors at universities think we should be copying Germany or having some form of public option at this point rather than going with
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single-payer. In fact a professor of Health Finance at Columbia University who also happens to be Canadian says that the United States should not copy Canada. It should be copying Germany because it is more consistent with the system we already have. Canada created their system
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Replying to @nevancik1 @angie_keathly and
I’ve spent many years looking at all the various forms of universal healthcare and I still favor single payer. But I’m not opposed to multipayer as an option. My bottom line is guaranteed coverage for every American from birth to death in whatever way we can get there.
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Replying to @DrChristineMann @angie_keathly and
Germany has guaranteed coverage, the Netherlands has guaranteed coverage Switzerland has guaranteed coverage Belgium has guaranteed coverage is real as guaranteed coverage and Japan it's not actually guaranteed it's mandatory. You have to buy your own insurance case closed. The
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Replying to @nevancik1 @DrChristineMann and
government helps people whose income are below a certain level appearance in the payroll tax countries the payroll tax is so low that the very poor get amazingly inexpensive insurance. They actually pay about 1/3 1/2 of what Bernie Sanders would be taxing them for Medicare for
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Replying to @nevancik1 @DrChristineMann and
all.. basically speaking I was a Health Sciences Library.. Hospitals, colleges, even public libraries. I was also a law librarian and basically they use my health librarian skills for medical malpractice cases... The multi-payer systems were actually created to avoid the access
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problems that exist in single-payer countries. Many single-payer countries have adopted co-pays in order to avoid those problems as well. The problem with a single-payer system that is based on a tax system that does not reflect how much or how little the system is used is that
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I am aware of all of this. I’ve been a practicing physician for 20+ years and have been working on healthcare policy for 12.
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Replying to @DrChristineMann @nevancik1 and
I blocked them...I think it’s a bot.
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