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Subsidizing healthcare with taxpayer money isn’t lowering healthcare costs, it’s switching payments from one hand to the other. The way to actually lower healthcare costs is to get government and insurance companies and any other middlemen out of it!! Let doctors and hospitals run their own businesses in a competitive market.
 
If looking to lower health care costs, President Trump signed an executive order that hospitals and doctors are to list their medical prices. That way Americans can price compare and help to lower health care costs.

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I personally belong to a Christian Health sharing plan. It is similar to insurance but different. In order to lower costs us members are asked to price compare between hospitals and doctors, choosing the lowest cost option. As a result my health care cost coverage is about half the price of what insurance would charge.
 
Subsidizing healthcare with taxpayer money isn’t lowering healthcare costs, it’s switching payments from one hand to the other. The way to actually lower healthcare costs is to get government and insurance companies and any other middlemen out of it!! Let doctors and hospitals run their own businesses in a competitive market.
What country woold you like the US to emulate for health care, since it sounds like you have one in mind.
 
What country woold you like the US to emulate for health care, since it sounds like you have one in mind.
None, do it our way. America is not like other countries. Obama care pushed out primary care practitioners and ushered in urgent care facilities with nurse practitioners. These doctors were getting paid pennies on the dollar from the insurance companies. That’s why so many retired and very few are going into that field. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I do know that something’s gotta change.
 
Democrats have really lost the plot

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None, do it our way. America is not like other countries. Obama care pushed out primary care practitioners and ushered in urgent care facilities with nurse practitioners. These doctors were getting paid pennies on the dollar from the insurance companies. That’s why so many retired and very few are going into that field. I don’t claim to be an expert, but I do know that something’s gotta change.
Isn't that a big red flag then, particularly when we have a pretty good idea of how many countries with single payer systems have been able to balance quality of care and prices?

Doctors in the US actually make significantly more than they do in most other countries. The primary issue is med school is expensive and their artificially high salaries are the result of the AMA limiting residency spots, which in turn increases burn out and workloads.
 
Isn't that a big red flag then, particularly when we have a pretty good idea of how many countries with single payer systems have been able to balance quality of care and prices?

Doctors in the US actually make significantly more than they do in most other countries. The primary issue is med school is expensive and their artificially high salaries are the result of the AMA limiting residency spots, which in turn increases burn out and workloads.
Can you give me an example of a country with healthcare that you like?
 
The CR was not passed today for the 13th time.

Time to bring up emergency SNAP funding asap.
 
Taiwan and South Korea are helpful models to emulate I think.
What about the aging population(Boomers) that would strain on the systems finances? Also what about healthcare shortages? Uncle Sam is a greedy mofo, he’s not about giving more for less.
 
What about the aging population(Boomers) that would strain on the systems finances? Also what about healthcare shortages? Uncle Sam is a greedy mofo, he’s not about giving more for less.
Unless Uncle Sam gives the health insurance corporations taxpayer money.
 
I kinda agree with MTG in that House Republicans would be better served passing legislation in Washington and finding an "off ramp" to COVID-19 pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of this year if a deal isn't reached.
 
Naw, that’s for their foreign wars and $500 toilet seats.
A solution for the ACA is to make Medicare available to everyone. I'm on Medicare and it's better than every insurance policy I've ever had. Plus, the cost of it depends on how much you make.

Let the insurance corporations compete with that and watch the premiums go way down. If they can't compete, then fine, bye bye to the useless middle mangs.

And yes, the amount of wasteful government spending is a problem that also needs a solution.
 
I wrote a column for Creators Syndicate a few weeks ago explaining how Democrats have shut down the government over the expiration of the temporary COVID-era premium tax credits established under the Affordable Care Act. Originally created in 2014 to subsidize health insurance for low- and middle-income Americans, these credits were expanded to higher-income households in 2021 under the American Rescue Plan and again under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022—but only through 2025. Every Democrat voted for that sunset clause. Now, as the expiration nears, they are demanding that Republicans extend the very subsidies they themselves voted to end.

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Oct 27, 2025
 
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We need more DOGE and Russ Vought cuts. Make the government smaller and more efficient. Eliminate the waste fraud and abuse.
Maybe one day we can have a balanced budget.

The tariffs are helping a lot.
Federal Reserve rate cuts would lower the cost of servicing the debt. It's costing over 1.2 trillion now. Could be less than half that.
 
What about the aging population(Boomers) that would strain on the systems finances? Also what about healthcare shortages? Uncle Sam is a greedy mofo, he’s not about giving more for less.
That is the downside to that approach. It's not perfect but I think it's the lesser evil. Not to mention you can integrate immigrants while technology develops more.

And what do you mean by health care shortages?
 
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