Saturday, July 1, 2017

State Single Payer And Medicaid Buy-In: A Look At California, New York, And Nevada

State Single Payer And Medicaid Buy-In: A Look At California, New York, And Nevada



The media does not
dig into this enough to know just how ingrained private for profit
companies are in the current Medicare and Medicaid systems and how
they are hidden in the proposals outlined here. Those corporations
currently make profits off of Medicare and Medicaid. The programs
originally were intended to be public with government setting rates
and paying vendors who agreed to sign up. Now the hidden system
(unaccountable as to finances as well) is that the government pays
the insurance company a per person fee who in turn is the one to pay
the vendors in their network for the covered services. My point is
that the politicians are being paid millions to keep the private for
profit insurance companies in the game and doing so even in the
proposals. For example, in CA Kaiser Permanente will stand to make
out like a bandit with their proposal for single payer.

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