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We suggest the following wording for this item:
ReplyDelete"The Commonwealth must act to ensure that its mandatory health insurance program is affordable to all residents until the state program is replaced by a federal single payer health care system."
+1 to the Truro Democratic Town Committee.
ReplyDeleteIt is long past time to bypass the health insurance industry altogether.
Health care providers should compete for federal health care funding on the basis of their demonstrated ability to provide quality health care.
Financial service companies (perhaps including today's health insurance companies) should similarly compete for an opportunity to *disburse* federal funding to providers, based on their demonstrated ability to provide quality customer service to both health care consumers and health care providers.
These new disbursement providers should be measured by how *little* overhead they impose on the taxpayer in disbursing funds to providers. They should have *NO* say in what provider any resident chooses.
Under a comprehensive single payer health care system the taxpayers of the Commonwealth would be paying for Healthcare, not for health insurance, saving 30% or more on our current healthcare dollars and genuinely providing care for all. Health insurance adds cost but no value to our health care budget.
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