Republicans Push Capitalist Healthcare

I had to laugh at this article in Bloomberg. Actually it was one of those filler blurbs that they put in the side of the News to fill out the empty space. If you weren't looking for it, you missed it.

And Bloomberg was telling (a part of) the truth for once. (In a long time.)

“Republican hopefuls pitch Obamacare ideas.” Just call O-care “The Affordable Care Act” and it's closer to the truth.

Rubio wants those with pre-existing conditions to be able to get affordable coverage instead of being gouged.

Cruz wants to de-link insurance coverage from employment. You get unemployed, you still have insurance and you can take it with you to your (hopeful) next job.

Bush (III) wants to use financial incentive programs to encourage wellness. (How about making healthy food more affordable and junk food more expensive? Just a thought.)

Kasich wants to use episode based payments to hold down costs and let doctors and hospitals share savings from reduced spending.

All of these exist in the Affordable care act.

All of what they are proposing isn't anything new – just the fact that the ACA is forcing people to buy insurance from private corporations is.

All of this is covered under Medicare and other single-payer programs.

Bloomberg won't tell us this part because their profitability is dependent upon private insurance companies buying over-priced advertising in their corporate propaganda rag sheet.

So, let's get a discussion of single payer going.

Properly done it saves money and lives.

We have the money – just cut the wasteful spending at the Pentagon, CIA, and NSA.

And we know it works – because it's the health plan that Congress gets.

So why isn't available to the rest of us?

Bloomberg probably isn't going to go into that.