How about this for federal health care?

Question

What if we had a graduated payment scale for everyone in the country (EVERYONE LEGAL THAT IS!) fr everytype of medica service that is not PURELY elective for vanity's sake (plastic surgery like Lypo, facelift, etc.)?

Adults will have a federally issued card each year with their income tax forms. these cards will be in the ame and social security numbr of each family mamber/dependant and will have the payment scale used for EVERYTHING from office visits, oerations and perscriptions. Medical providers will not be allowed to discriminate and they MUST accept it or be bared from being in the medical field any longr!
It can just be written off as the cost of doing business!
It is not unfair, as we already, as a sciety, do this in qualifying people for food stamps based on who much they can support themselves already.
This would follow those guidlines.
What could b more fair and still keep gov't involvement to a minimum?
Opinions

What I was suggesting is this:
following a pivoting scale, that is a fixed point on the mean wage. and for every dollar decrease on one side of this number there is a dollar increase on the other.
So (this will be an example to show what I mean) person that earns $50k pays $50 for an office visit and if we lower the office visit $1 for every $1.5k one earns less and raise it $1 for everyon that earns $1.5k more until the scale both bottoms out and tops out. Say $10k and below pays $20 and everyone at $90k and above pays $80.
The smal amount of loss, (if a doctor sees more of a certain class of earners) will just be gone! period, or it could be assigned by percentages in a geographic area and that is it.

I KNOW IT IS NOT A PERFECT IDEA, BUT IT WOULD KEEP THE OVERALL HEALTH CARE DOLLAR EVEN FOR DOCTORS, DRUG COMPANIES AND STILL BE BETTER FOR THE COUNTRY by allowing health care for everyone!

Answer 1

Due to the population of the USA and other factors (that have already been mentioned in previous answers, such as cost determination per person, salaries, and procedure cost), I have come to the conclusion that a national healthcare system would be far too spendy to be implemented here. That's not to say it works in other countries, it's just that Americans don't want to pay 66% taxes and would rather have the extra money than a nationalized healthcare system.

Answer 2

Just got back from vacation in the U.K. They have a similar system but most of my family there pays extra for private insurance. If you need a mammogram it takes months to get it. Chemotherapy????

A vial of Neupagin cost $1,000 in the U.S. who is even going to be able to pay for 1/10 of that when they need a shot every day to get through chemo??? Chemo treatments cost Thousands of dollars. My son had to get 6 stictches. The emergency room bill was over $900. I paid $35.00 co-pay. I will stick with the insurance options we have now. My HMO didn;'t refuse any of the chemo treatments I needed. If I had to pay on a sliding scale while also too sick to work.....I would have to file bankruptcy.

Answer 3

What do you mean, "keep goverment involvement to a minimum"?! Who the heck is going to institute this program, the Girl Scouts?!

And, what happens to the cost of malpractice insurance? To reduce it (it is sky-high, bucko), we would have to make physicians & surgeons exempt from lawsuits. You want that, 'cause *I* don't. I want them accountable.

And, what the heck do you mean "it can be written off"? Writing something off doesn't mean it goes into the memory hole.

In short, I am so against Socialized medicine that words fail me. Go up to Canada and try to get an emergency root canal, see what happens.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, you are asking in a forum full of rich white people who own computers and have too much free time. They all have health insurance and don't give a dang about anyone else. So, unfortunately, the answers you recieve will have a certain bias.

Answer 5

and what about law suits for malpractice, next who decides the cost of the procedure, Who pays the doctor the balance.
If they don't have enough money to pay for the procedure, who pays the balance.

And if they have to write off everyones, then some who treat low income people, won't have any income

Answer 6

No thanks. If I want socialized medicine I'll move to Canada and wait for a few months to see my doctor. The Federal Government is not the way to fix what's wrong in heath care.

Answer 7

Depends if you want to pay 80% taxes or not... AKA move to Canada or the U.K. or another socialist state if you don't like it here.