tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post1540319687196141316..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Public health system collapsingBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-48278304469855197622009-05-06T21:26:00.000-07:002009-05-06T21:26:00.000-07:00I hear a lot that "the public isn't ready for Medi...I hear a lot that "the public isn't ready for Medicare For All". The problem is, that's not what the public opinion polls say. The public opinion polls say that <A HREF="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/PollMemo.pdf" REL="nofollow">the public likes the notion of Medicare For All just fine and is even willing to hike their own Medicare payroll tax to pay for it</A>. It's the decision makers, the elites, who have decided that the public isn't ready -- not the public itself, which appears to be ready just fine. <br /><br />- Badtux the Health Care PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-46693879882862702492009-05-06T20:50:00.000-07:002009-05-06T20:50:00.000-07:00The public is not ready to extend Medicare to all....The public is not ready to extend Medicare to all. However, the public may be ready to lower the eligibility age for Medicare to age 60. With millions of jobs lost for a long time to our economy we have a choice of having either more chronically unemployed or more retired people. Lack of health care and the cost thereof is a huge barrier to retiring before age 65. Remove that barrier and more people retire. If more people will retire it will open up jobs to younger workers. It will also lower the costs for employers who provide health care to employees. In my opinion this would be an excellent form of permanent stimulus.Escapethenewgreatdepressionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04302366010651737841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-24784046425517596752009-05-05T12:48:00.000-07:002009-05-05T12:48:00.000-07:00Your lead-in sentence causes me once more to ask t...Your lead-in sentence causes me once more to ask the no-brainer "What were they thinking?"<br /><br />I used to love (no, not really) to laugh at the concept of "the best and the brightest" - especially considering the fine wars they brought to the lower classes: Vietnam, Afghanistan and that real winner Iraq.<br /><br />But still - and I ask again - where were they planning to live when the shit hit the fans?<br /><br />Thanks for following this for us from your lofty perch in the west.<br /><br /><I>3.8 million people have lost their jobs and thus their health insurance at the exact same time that state and local budgets have collapsed due to the Depression . . . leading to people literally dying in the streets for lack of health care.</I>Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-49440851067454984012009-05-05T09:16:00.000-07:002009-05-05T09:16:00.000-07:00You know, as much as I hate to say it, it will be ...You know, as much as I hate to say it, it will be really ugly how this plays out if the flu is resurgent and more lethal in fall. And it may be too much to hope that the lesson would finally sink in at that point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com