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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
And we currently have some redress if you feel that your care has been rationed in a way that has harmed your health.
I don't think we'd have that ( or as much of that) if we go to single payer, but again, I don't think that Obamacare = single payer.
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I don't know whether we would or not (and I don't know whether, if we did, it would be any more effective than what we have now or not). But I agree -- no one has actually proposed single payer.
That's why the whole debate is so frustrating to me. Some are debating proposals that are on the table or could well be on the table. Others -- many more others, perhaps -- are debating (loudly) things that aren't likely to be on the table.
I think discussion about the sky falling in with single payer are a red herring. Aside from the fact that that's not being proposed and would never pass here, "single payer" alone isn't going to fix things or make them worse. If we look around we see plenty of other countries with a variety of ways of doing things, from Canada's and Britain's systems to Germany's universal coverage using only private insurers. The devil is, as always, in the details, not in "single payer" vs. free market private insurance.
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