Single-Payer Will Cut Boomers' Lives Short

[Free Vulcan]

If you're a baby boomer, you're expecting Medicare to pay for that knee replacement or cataract operation you'll need in 10 or 20 years. Don't count on it. Health care reform is taking a dangerous turn. Democrats, energized by the failure to repeal Obamacare, are again pushing a government takeover of health care they call "Medicare for all." Democrats took the first step last week, announcing a Senate bill to expand Medicare for people age 55 and up. Boomers beware. These schemes will push people 65 and older to the back of the line for health care.

It's already happening in the U.K., where government-run health care is targeting boomers for deadly rationing. Faced with a budget crisis, Britain's National Health Service is limiting the procedures seniors need most: hip and knee replacements, cataract operations, angioplasty and colonoscopies. It's a preview of what American boomers can expect under a Medicare-for-all system.

Once people over 65 have to compete with a younger population for health resources, they lose. Britain's boomers are told they have fewer years of life ahead to benefit from costly medical procedures.

Read more at: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/09/single-payer_will_cut_boomers_lives_short_134697.html

[Bigun]

If you're a baby boomer, you're expecting Medicare to pay for that knee replacement or cataract operation you'll need in 10 or 20 years. Don't count on it. Health care reform is taking a dangerous turn. Democrats, energized by the failure to repeal Obamacare, are again pushing a government takeover of health care they call "Medicare for all." Democrats took the first step last week, announcing a Senate bill to expand Medicare for people age 55 and up. Boomers beware. These schemes will push people 65 and older to the back of the line for health care.

It's already happening in the U.K., where government-run health care is targeting boomers for deadly rationing. Faced with a budget crisis, Britain's National Health Service is limiting the procedures seniors need most: hip and knee replacements, cataract operations, angioplasty and colonoscopies. It's a preview of what American boomers can expect under a Medicare-for-all system.

Once people over 65 have to compete with a younger population for health resources, they lose. Britain's boomers are told they have fewer years of life ahead to benefit from costly medical procedures.

Read more at: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/08/09/single-payer_will_cut_boomers_lives_short_134697.html

And that is just the beginning of it.  Who will stand on the soapbox and criticize the government when that government has control of his ability to continue to enjoy good health?

[INVAR]

And that is just the beginning of it.  Who will stand on the soapbox and criticize the government when that government has control of his ability to continue to enjoy good health?

Yup.

A Soviet's wet dream.

And the Democrats' and the Republicans' too.

Then there's some kind of quasi-hybrid Trump eluded to.

How you voted will depend on whether or not you get the surgery you need.  End game.

[dfwgator]

Yup.

A Soviet's wet dream.

And the Democrats' and the Republicans' too.

 

Big Business'  too.

[goatprairie]

Many brits have private health care to complement the NHS.  If you're getting treated by the socialist national plan, you might have to wait many, many months before you're treated.   And if you miss your scheduled appointment for whatever reason, no matter how serious the procedure you go back to the end of the line. And many times you cannot choose your doctor.
I get this info from my wife who gets it from her sisters who still live in Britain.

[Free Vulcan]

Many brits have private health care to complement the NHS.  If you're getting treated by the socialist national plan, you might have to wait many, many months before you're treated.   And if you miss your scheduled appointment for whatever reason, no matter how serious the procedure you go back to the end of the line. And many times you cannot choose your doctor.
I get this info from my wife who gets it from her sisters who still live in Britain.

Canada works the same.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Many brits have private health care to complement the NHS.  If you're getting treated by the socialist national plan, you might have to wait many, many months before you're treated.   And if you miss your scheduled appointment for whatever reason, no matter how serious the procedure you go back to the end of the line. And many times you cannot choose your doctor.
I get this info from my wife who gets it from her sisters who still live in Britain.

I lived there 30 years ago and they are correct.

My wife once called the clinic and asked if she could come in as she thought she had the flu.  When they asked whether she is public or private she asked the difference.  They told her that if public, she would be placed on a waiting list and will be seen in a couple of weeks.  If private, she could come in right away.

Going public on health insurance is a death sentence for shorter lives.