OK, some people have asked me to comment on SinglePayerGate, the claim that the Sanders single-payer health plan would actually increase health spending, and that Sanders is lying when he says otherwise. 1/http://theweek.com/articles/791236/fact-checkers-have-medicareforall-problem …
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I take your point. I always felt the ACA was a bit like being half pregnant.
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Which is why Obama was being totally disingenuous when he (and his then spokesman, Robert Gibbs) criticised the "professional left" when the latter pointed out the flaws in the ACA minus the so-called public option. Obama claimed that the bill got "95%" of what was on offer.
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But what was on offer was already a heavily compromised version and in spite of that, the insurance companies and Big Pharma fought tooth and nail to resist a public option because they knew that this was the one thing that could generate significant costs savings in the program.
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Another significant problem of ACA was that insurance was not so mandatory after all. The relatively low fines for not insuring lead a portion of the most healthy ones to pull out, which of course then leads to higher premiums for the remaining ones.
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German health care providers are non profit orgs (for those with less than ~56k € income annually), another huge difference to Obamacare
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*insurers are non-profit, providers may or may not be private
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There are private insurers can pay here in Germany for extra care and for specialists. Otherwise insurance companies are state owned. You’d have to destroy the health insurance business in the USA, and people have a lot invested there. Lots of jobs. ACA had to compromise to pass
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