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Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes
ananyo writes about improvement to Mexico's healthcare system. From the article: "A revamp of Mexico's beleaguered health-care system is proving to be a runaway success and offers a model for other nations seeking to reform their own systems, according to a review published this week in The Lancet (abstract). The key to the scheme's success is the way in which it has modified its reforms in response to scientific assessments of their effectiveness, the authors say. Launched in a law in 2003, the Mexican scheme was designed to sort out widespread inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the country's health-care system. Some 50 million Mexicans — nearly half the country's population — who previously were not covered by health insurance are now enrolled, leading the scheme's architects to claim that the country has near-universal health-care coverage. As well as the increased coverage, the scheme has seen the number of conditions treated under Mexican public health insurance nearly quintuple. Admittedly, the former health minister Julio Frenk, now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a co-author on the paper."
So your 'solution' includes destroys freedoms of doctors to do business as they see fit (put them on salary, whatever).
How about an actual solution - get rid of government in health care completely, abolish Medicare and SS, means test the current beneficiaries, transfer those, who can't afford to live without this on welfare, because that's all SS and Medicare are - these are welfare program.
You never pay into SS or Medicare, because there is no fund with any assets there, it's all IOUs, gov't bonds. Medicare and SS spend more money than they take in, so to finance these pyramid schemes the gov't sells bonds.
Whether there are bonds in the 'fund' or there are no bonds in the fund, the financing of these payments would be exactly the same as the financing is now - sell bonds. These are pyramid schemes and if it were the private sector running them, the gig would have been up and over by now, but because it's gov't, you can't escape it without actually escaping the country.
By the way, all this borrowing will blow up in the faces of the people who rely on the government to finance these pyramid schemes once the interest rates go up, because the only thing the gov't will do as the response is more inflation, more money printing.
There is no choice in cutting SS or Medicare. You can either cut them now legislatively and transfer those, who really need those programs and cannot survive on their own to welfare, or you can wait for the completely inevitable collapse of the US bonds and the dollar and then your SS and Medicare benefits would disappear anyway simply due to inflation.
Your choice. With the legislative approach you can still save the dollar (maybe). With the inflation approach you can't.
By the way, what's funny about the current crop of the Republicans is that they are just as Socialist in nature as the Democrats. Romney and Ryan will absolutely not cut Medicare and SS under any circumstances, they talk about it, about cutting it 10 years and more into the future....
as if anybody is going to do anything 10 years and more into the future. There are no 10 years, there is no future.
Ryan had his mother and talked about her on SS and Medicare, the guy makes what, 5 million a year? Why can't HE take care of HIS mother? Sell out, socialist pig dog shit.
You can't handle the truth.