Medicare for all sounds great,
except for at least one very expensive consideration: When a Medicare claim is
processed the billing structure is totally different for Medicare than that
from any doctor to a private insurer. Anyone who is on Medicare, and once had
private insurance should know this for a fact. The bill for any procedure can
be anywhere from 20% to 525% higher for Medicare in comparison to that of a
private insurer.
Rather than give carte
blanche to the healthcare industry to overbill all Americans in the form of
taxation, wouldn’t it be better to reform or reign in the insurance billing
standards?
These standards are excessive because of
Medicare, because The Federal Government has allowed it! After all, it’s not
The Government’s money it’s spending, it’s ours! For example, let’s just say a
Hernia procedure bill from the doctor is twenty thousand dollars. That bill is
what the acceptable set standard is by the private insurance industry, however,
the bill to Medicare; I can assure you is much higher form the doctor, because
that standard is not applicable for Medicare billing.
Not only that, but The
Federal Government has the poorest track record of any entity, business, or
industry, of accountability for anything. What makes anyone think that this
would be any different? Unless and until The Federal Government can set the
standard pricing for every doctors office visit, and every medical procedure,
eliminate the private health insurance industry, and enforce those billing
standards, it is a complete impossibility to tell the American people what it
would cost.
Medicare and Social Security are
insolvent now. Let’s try adding sixty plus percent of Americans to the broken
system and see what happens.
So the problem with “paying for
it” can’t be accurately measured. These so called estimates are just
propaganda. These illusionists are simply adding the estimated sixty to seventy
percent to the existing costs. Heck, what’s to stop a doctor from billing Medicare
for a heart transplant procedure, when he actually performed a
tonsillectomy? Like all the other Socialist programs that are already
written into law, they are all unsustainable because there is no accountability
for spending when there is one payer and
that one payer is the government.
Eventually, those that pay for it all, get tired of paying for those that refuse to and the walls come tumbling down, as all socialist governments eventually do.
