Ok, we are ALL in agreement that medicare/medicaid needs change, but how do you achieve it?
Ryans plan is to go to a voucher system, another givaway to big insurance, and a major cost to seniors. Along with less coverage.
Obama's plan is to cut the abuse, the overbilling, the double testing, and fraud. The ACA is also supposed to bring lower costs to supplement plans by creating market coops for people to purchase.
To myself the later plan is better, it isn't perfect and sooner or later will have to be changed to socialized medicine. You can't continue to pay a middle man everytime you want care, and the overhead of administering a couple hundred different insurance plans is top heavy.
If all of America went to a single payer system, issued a card at birth, everybody pays, even on welfare the cost is deducted from your check! You can walk into any doctors office, any hospital, and get care. Your whole medical history is on that card, one swipe and any doctor/hospital can access your records in seconds. When you have to go to a nursing home, its covered, you do not have to worry about losing your lifes savings, work, just because your old! Yep, we ALL would have to pay for OUR own care, nope we wouldn't have any co-pay, hidden charges, coverage loopholes, or out of area charges.
How long can big insurance and the Republican party continue the onslaught of anti-socialized medicine media, and lies? How long before the people of this nation wake up? We are not #1 in healthcare, we 27th in the world! The only people who come here for medical care are the rich, they can afford to have their own personal ball washer, most of the US cannot..
If you look at history for 77 years the Republican party has called SS a pox on America.. For 77 years it has kept the elderly from poverty, hunger, and even death. They have no other plan except to kill it, along with Medicare, they would like nothing more than to give it all to the big insurance, and market giants.. The problem is that markets crash, and big insurance likes to raise their prices every year..
Think about this little fact, on 9/11 3000 people died, we invaded two countrys, spent a couple trillion dollars on these wars.. Every year 45,000 people die because of lack of healthcare, and the best we can do? I guess vengence is a bigger driver than basic care? The Republican party would much rather build a military than take care of its own..