Why Trump should embrace single-payer health care

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Why Trump should embrace single-payer health care

By F.H. Buckley
March 30, 2017


With the collapse of RyanCare, the Trump administration is looking for a new plan. We’re going to need one, since health-care reform isn’t going away. At best, we just kicked the can down the road. We’re still living with the night of the living dead that is ObamaCare.

It’s slowly dying because too few people have signed up for coverage. For younger, healthier people, it’s cheaper to pay the penalty than to sign up. That’s why Aetna has announced it will drastically reduce participation in public exchanges, as did UnitedHealthcare and Humana. The collapse will accelerate with Trump’s executive order to waive enforcement of the penalty.

So fine, kick it down the road, but give some thought to what reform will look like when we have to revisit the issue in a year or two. At that point the status quo — ObamaCare — won’t be an option.

Better still, tackle the problem now.

Read more at:

http://nypost.com/2017/03/30/why-trump-should-embrace-single-payer-health-care/

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F.H. Buckley is a member of the organization "Scholars and Writers for Trump".

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What a shock... Not...

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"and the government will pay for it!"

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Notice the propaganda train in full power-up mode to push for pure unadulterated Government-run top-down central planning Communism.

The simplest way to do this is universal health care, on the Canadian model, with a right of individuals to purchase a Cadillac plan on top of this out of pocket. And there are things that might be added, like removing the ban on reimporting drugs from Canada.

Not only would this be close to what Trump promised, but it would be a responsible response to the problem

Ah yes, the responsible response is to go full-throated Communism rather than incremental Communism.

And here, the protagonists for "Compromise" have already ceded the principle and precedent that Government Socialism is a reality we have to accept and the baseline we must operate from in trading more of our liberties away.