Whatcha think of tax-and-spend Repub Liberal Arnold starting Universal Health Care in California?

Answer 1

I think it is going to be a disaster on several levels.

It discourages small business - If you business has over 10 employees you will be required to offer health insurance to your employees of face a 4% payroll tax.

It is going to drive up health care costs and possibly effect the quality of care received - He want to require Hospitals to pay a 4% and Doctors 2% of their gross revenues. Both will not take a loss on profits and will raise costs to cover the added expense of doing business. Additionally Doctors will have to give careful consideration as to whether they are even willing to open a practice under these conditions.

It has an unrealistic position regarding the poor - All people will be required to carry insurance by law. Those who cannot pay will be subsidized by the State, but will be required to pay a percentage of their premiums. What happens if they refuse to pay? Is Arnold willing to jail the poor? Or will the state just be forced to absorb the additional costs?

It seeks to provide insurance to the children of illegal aliens - How long will it be before there are demands to ensure all people in the state regardless of immigration status? And again, who is going to pay the bill?

These are just a few of the problems, but there will be others. However, I hope it passes just as an example of what a startling failure these types of systems are. When California bankrupts itself it should be a wakeup call for people who clamor for free health care.

Answer 2

We'll have to wait and see how it goes. It could work if done well.
And as I understand it, all companies above a certain size must provide health insurance. If there is a large group policy **organized** by the state, rates could be reasonable-- which in many cases they're not for small companies.

Many of you state that it will cost more. In theory, it may cost people (e.g. the tax payer) less in the long run. Why?

First of, many of you don't see all the hidden costs and impacts. Even if you have insurance, you're paying for all the care given to those w/out insurance or don't pay.

Many w/out insurance simply don't go to the doctor and when they do, they go to public ER's where the costs are way more than urgent care or a family physician. They also don't necessarily make use of preventative care. The public hospitals don't get money from those w/out insurance or get paid very little. And in many cases those who wait, go when things are really bad-- so cost of care goes up.

Whether you like it nor, tax payers and those of us with insurance pay to cover those w/out health care or poor.

By getting those w/out insurance to get into a plan with very large groups, risks and costs are spread out over large number of people. Rates can be reasonable. Then people can also get covered in lower cost places (e.g. reg. dr's ofice vs ER). Risks are lower to health care insurance providers as they get large groups.

This is how it works with large corporations-- they have large groups and negotiated rates.

Preventative care is much cheaper to deal with than constantly treating chronically ill people.

It could work but will have to wait and see.

Answer 3

Arnold is very intelligent and good but health insurance is a difficult enterprise. At best, he may succeed. At worst he may open up more avenues for people to have health care. He cares about California and takes his job very seriously. Give the man a break.

Answer 4

California is a national trend setter. Expect others to follow but the money will come from states not the federal govt. Federal dollars are too busy being ferreted to subsidize big business, war and Israel.

Answer 5

I doubt that prevalent wellbeing care coverage (or "socialized drugs") could be as tragic for the U.S. as its detractors answering this question make out. this is an unlucky fact of existence that any organization--wellbeing care, the offender justice gadget, highway development--is a commerce-off between what you may handle to pay for to do and what could be appropriate. None human beings has limitless time, money or source. In Canada, the state rations wellbeing care; interior the U.S., private insurers ration wellbeing care. the version is that the state is a minimum of theoretically to blame to its electorate, while an coverage company is in simple terms to blame to its shareholders. If there are delays in getting a heart transplant in Canada, i think that the delays have extra to do with the lack of available donors than something inherent in prevalent scientific coverage. my own journey in getting a mandatory operation has been helpful. I had a indifferent retina--a scientific emergency that, if not dealt with, finally ends up in blindness in that eye. My opthalmologist frequently has a waiting era of numerous months. while i discussed that i theory I had a indifferent retina, i replaced into given an appointment here day. Upon confirming that it replaced into, certainly, a indifferent retina, my opthalmologist had me booked for an operation the day once I observed him. From the time that i theory I had the priority to the time I gained an operation to restoration it replaced right into a era of in simple terms 2 days. I doubt that one would desire to do any better interior the U.S. This additionally occurred interior the province of Alberta, which had a neoconservative government that replaced into itching to ape u . s . a .'s physique of strategies to wellbeing care right here and that had long previous a important distance in reducing the standard and technique of the wellbeing care gadget.

Answer 6

I think he's a retard...Why doesn't he just up the spending limits on Medi-Cal if he's so gung ho to have everyone insured?

He's gonna totally screw up the benefits I get from my employer by making everyone else do it. What ever happened to the concept of employers being competitive by offering benefits that others can't? AND, this whole thing is gonna raise everyone's rates, and screw up the system even more than it already is.

Answer 7

I think I am damned glad I moved back to Alaska!!

Answer 8

Another republican with Nazi connections corrupted by some good Democrat poontang.

Answer 9

I think he's a true Marxist.

Answer 10

Don't know