“He first visits our friendly neighbors to the north in Canada, among them his aunt and uncle, who must go to Sear’s to get travel insurance in case anything happens to them while they visit the US.”
What is your point? That the US should give free health care to anyone including foreign visitors? They don’t do that in Canada either.
However, Canadian health care takes care of those who travel abroad. They do not have to buy Sear’s insurance. They are already covered by Canadian insurance. They only need to give their Canadian insurance card. The hospital would either get reimbursement from Canadian Health or they pay upfront and apply for reimbursement themselves. Likewise, most American insurance cover emergency treatments when you are travelling. They do not cover emergency evacuation back to the States though.
Moore is a sicko. A couple of years ago, a group of doctors went down to Cuba to investigate why there was a large increase in child blindness. Ans: the kids were malnourished. Btw, certain Cuban could fly in a foreign expert to take care of him. I wonder if other Cubans could have similar treatments.
Americans should not have a single payer healthcare system. We should have at least 50 payers. Each person should be responsible for his own insurance premium. Either pays into his employer’s plan, or the state’s plan. Those who cannot afford the premium will be helped out by the state, i.e. other taxpayers. Like MediCare Plan D, if the pot of premiums is large enough, the insurance companies would fight over the pot.
Americans want choices. Single payer plan takes away their choices. If individual state plans were good enough, Americans would choose them. If a state is not big enough, then may be it can attach itself to another state. Eventually all 50 states may band together to negotiate with insurance companies for the levels of premiums and cares. Each insured will deal with his own insurance company with claims and reimbursements. No huge taxpayer-funded bureaucracy to process claims or deals with healthcare providers, the job is better done by insurance companies. No huge tax increases to pay for a single-payer system. No entitlement to those who can afford to pay their own premiums.
