RE: Obamacare written to deceive the public.
November 17, 2014 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 11:15 pm by Heywood.)
(November 17, 2014 at 10:59 pm)Aractus Wrote: No, you would not "produce affordable healthcare" you would have to introduce universal healthcare. Tell me, how would a minimum wage earner in the USA ever be able to afford cancer treatment costing over $120,000 on average? And that's just an average - treatment of childhood leukaemia can cost up to $800,000, as was one such claim mentioned in that link. How are you going to make $800,000 leukaemia treatment "affordable" for everyone?
Suppose there is one clinic in town that treats Leukaemia and it charges $100,000 a year. The government can build a building, buy some medical equipment, train up some doctors and nurses, and open a second clinic in that town that charges nothing. Then your minimum wage earner doesn't have to worry about being able to afford the care.
The private clinic would need to reduce its cost and increase its quality to stay competitive. Some private clinics would go out of business as government clinics opened up......but not all would.
