Current Affairs Joe Biden POTUS #46

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I have to say this again, and it's not meant to anything in particular:

If Biden wants to just move on from Trump with no accountability for anyone in that administration this country is effectively dead on it's feet; it just wouldn't know of it yet.

There can be no "unity" without justice. They bailed on doing the right thing with Bush and company with their absurd "when they go low we go high" rhetoric which lost them both chambers almost immediately. They go easy on anything that last administration has done and the next Republican administration is going to know nothing has any consequences to them, at all. There isn't going to be anything to stop them from following through with what Trump tried.

Again, I'm not saying "what's taking so long", more saying "don't fall for the same fn trap Obama did". Actions NEED to have consequences for their to be any semblance of equality and justice.
 
riddick said:
I have a friend who voted for Trump, I've talked about him before. Tuesday we got a beer and 2 other friends showed up and he started bitching about taxes and that Biden is going to raise them. Told him that Trumps "AMAZING" tax thing was scheduled to start kicking in higher taxes this year anyways. He didn't believe me until he read up on it.

Then I asked him about healthcare. He was ADAMANT that there shouldn't be any nationalized health care. No matter how many things he threw at me and I gave rebuttals he said that we don't need it(then why has no other developed country in the WORLD EVER gone from a nationalized health care to the US version?), taxes will go up (they will, yup. But you don't have to pay for insurance or out of pocket stuff), etc.

Basically was saying "this is a political issue, we shouldn't be talking about it at the bar" which I get but health care SHOULDN'T be a political fn issue ffs..
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The healthcare debate is a complex one and having worked in the industry for about 10 years one that I’m pretty interested in. Can you share your view on why a national single payer model is the best choice? Why not expand Medicaid to ensure coverage for those who aren’t covered by an employer while capping prices for services? Yes, I’m saying Medicaid rather than Medicare as Medicaid truly is a social assistance program. I’m definitely sold on expanding accessibility and lowering costs for those who really need it. I’m not sold on a single payer model.

Employer funded plans are in a lot of ways a tax on those companies and provide optionally for their employees. If I want a HDHP because I don’t use my plan unless it’s an emergency, I’m in favor of having that option.

The wait times you’re calling out are often mentioned around specialists and elective procedures, and personally I don’t think all electives should be covered by a national program regardless. Medical necessity should play a role. However insurance also shouldn’t be a bottleneck and if a doctor says you need something, you should have access to it.

There’s a lot more to it and a lot being tried in the space, including value based care models. I’m mostly just curious why single payer is the default answer for so many.

Im also a little jaded because I lived through the ACA rollout which was pretty poorly done, and I don’t really have faith the government would actually be able to productively manage and administer it if they took it all on. The amount of ways they already overcomplicate things is unreal.
 
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