Reply #6: for some reason people are afraid of a single payer system. they equate it with [View All]

socialism. it's not, but they see it as if it were. thanks media!! i look at it as a series of small pools. it makes more sense to have one big pool that everyone is in. people like myself are less likely to need much more than a yearly check up and my counseling. the reason medicare has a hard time is because by the time people can access it, they are more likely to need to use it frequently. so most of the people in that pool are drawing from it. but if we were all in the same pool, then someone like me is paying in but not really needing to use it.... but grandma down the street who is retired may need a hip replacement or something else.... but since i am paying more in than i am using, my contributions are ensuring her hip replacement. as it stands now i am paying towards an insurance policy that if i do not use it just lines the pockets of the insurance company. but if instead we are all just pooling our insurance dollars together, the money just keeps going towards healthcare instead of being funneled out to stock holders. that is a fine business plan if we are selling bicycles, but heath care is not a very good business model. the money needs to be there if one needs to use it. i find there to be something very wrong with a system that i pay for, and then still ahve to pay a high amount of money out of my own pocket before the person i am paying has to spend a dime. where else do we see this??? there is no other business that i know of where if they didn't provide the service or product to you after you pay them they wouldn't be committing a crime.