Love single payer. No pulling out when you are pulled out of the picture.

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These both are informative about how FTAS are making affordable health care and education impossible:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.5725 (US)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.678.59 (Canada)

Additional info: http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf

It would be morphing into single-payer right now.

It isnt being public that makes single payer affordable actually, guaranteed issue makes it more expensive if you have cherry picking insurance companies skimming off the healthy, profitable customers.

to it there would be clear proof people have wanted single-payer.

They have tried the same things over and over again, and they always fail, meanwhile, a huge number of people have died.

http://www.pnhp.org/states_flatline/State%20Health%20Reform%20Flatlines%20IJHS%20-%202008.pdf

Better to get rid of the "surplus population" than suffer that!

to prevent this!

Also, public services violate our own trade deals, which we're pushing all around the world, the FTAS - the policies we are pushing make it impossible for any new nonconforming public services to be created because we agreed to dismantle them in 1994.

Read this paper about the obstacles faced by Maine:
http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf

For the US to suddenly start allowing public services which gave away health care and forced insurance companies out would be a major change in US policy, kind of like the Pope endorsing birth control or something.


You can read the actual text blocking nonconforming monopoly services in here under Standstill.

https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/54-ufins_e.htm


Sorry. Bill Clinton should never have signed it back in 1994

One company has a monopoly now, not good....something needs to be done to fix this...

http://www.adn.com/article/20160502/moda-health-leave-alaska-s-individual-insurance-market-2017

And it is not just the insurance company's fault.

Hospitals charge an outrageous, unregulated amount.

I just had two surgeries, for over $300,000.

Moda had to cover my second surgery of +$130,000 and I have only paid them $1600.

I feel really guilty for being part of the problem here, but what the heck was I supposed to do?

Health care should be Not-For-Profit, and executive salaries need to be regulated.

to 1998 regulatory ceiling. I think it is january 1998, that is pre-ACA. So we will then basically get Third World insurance and to reduce prices they wil use the disciplines on dmestic regulation to either import doctors and nurses under Mode Four or they will ship people with low cost insurance to other countries when they need any serious medical procedure. So we wil lose guaranteed issue, we will lose basically all of the good things in the ACA, but the tiered system will be perpetuated- also they will have successfully gotten rid of the high wages without being directly blamable for it, sacrificed on the altar of for profit health care. Same thing with other service sectors.

read up on what "Standstill" and "Rollback" and "ratchet" mean in the context of international trade.

here is Lori Wallach talking about it, she mentions the rollback in this Democracy now.

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/20/a_plan_only_banksters_will_love

You should also learn abut TiSA

They have tough time over charging Medicare.

Would love to see the loophole that allows these companies to simply exit the plan.

do you?

The main thing with Obamacare was to create a system that perpetuated the tiered system, against all odds, complies with US trade policy, which perpetuates a number of big lies, also stop the potential fall in healthcare prices and drug prices, to prop them up, and especially stop write-offs, stop the free riders.