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There will be no mandates for any employers to either offer healthcare insurance or to NOT offer healthcare insurance. There will be no mandates forcing anyone to use the single payer universal healthcare system if they choose individually to not use it.
As all payments to doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies will be adjusted to be fair, reasonable, and more than equitable to reflect the complexity of the treatment, the length of the treatment, the quality of the treatment, the skill of the doctor, and other regional and geographical factors------doctors and hospitals can be assured that they will be part of a system that reimburses them fairly, equitably, and expeditiously. They will never see and "unpaid bill" languishing in their records for months and months on end, and for years and years on end.
Patients will never see a medical bill. Direct payment from the single payer will be just that-----payment from a single payer. This alone will save more than $400 billion a year. Rather than doctors offices and hospital billing departments spending tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars on armies of administrators trying to collect overdue bills; and rather than doing daily battle filing appeal after appeal after appeal to collect from Corporate insurance companies--------doctors and hospitals will be free to do what they are trained to do----treat patients.
An added benefit to such a system will be that once doctors and hospitals are once again free to "practice medicine" and when patients are assured that all their medical bills will be covered, litigation and lawsuits will slowly dry up. Doctors will be free to order the medical tests they truly believe need to be ordered for the best interests of the patients. They won't be hamstrung by the policies, procedures, and stipulations and constraints of the insurance companies need to maximize their CEO salaries, stock options, shareholder value, bonuses, and those lucrative golden parachute retirement plans that serve no other purpose than to milk the American people out of their life savings at the same time they put doctors and hospitals under a financial microscope.
Those senior citizens on Medicare will receive enhanced coverage for all your medically necessary needs. Those who are now on Medicaid will receive better care, and more complete coverage, and will have an incentive to work again and make as much money has you can, since your healthcare won't be dependent upon you qualifying as being below the poverty level.
Recent college graduates who no longer qualify to have health insurance under their parents plan because they turn some magical age of 23 ½, will, under my plan be fully covered.
Your age, your gender, your family status (whether single, married, divorced) will no longer determine whether you can obtain healthcare.
Your work status, and whether you have been on the job for 40 years, 4 years, 4 weeks, or 4 days, will no longer determine whether or not you have healthcare coverage.
After all, it's been said that the average worker will have about 12 jobs in their entire work career. Under our present system this is a ticket to disaster for most people because it means that you are now being re-examined by insurance companies for pre-existing conditions, at least 12 times in your lifetime, all for the purpose of denying you the ability to obtain a policy at any cost, or to obtain a policy that will cover everything BUT the health condition that your really need treatment for. This is absurd.
So no longer will your health care needs or your injuries, illnesses or medical conditions from ten, twenty or thirty years ago determine your ability to get health care.
Our Veterans will be able to get medical care at a VA facility if they choose, or if it is more convenient for them to get medical care at any other hospital or from any other doctor outside the VA system, our Veterans will be free to so choose.
And make no mistake about it. If you like your present healthcare policy and your employer likes paying for it, and likes providing it to you my plan will not prohibit in any way you or your employer entering into any contract that you and your employer agree on. But remember, 14,000 Americans today are losing their insurance mainly because they are losing their jobs. This is going to stop.
There will no longer be 50 million Americans without healthcare. There will be none without healthcare. Everyone will be insured.
Let me repeat. Everyone will be insured. Children, single people, families, single mothers, the employed as well as the unemployed, seniors, and young adults.
You will never find yourself in a position of not having access to healthcare.
You'll be entitled to coverage for dental care, prescription drugs, visions exams and prescription glasses, mental health coverage for you and your family.
