Against National Health Insurance Medicare For All Act


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1. Universal Healthcare is the Wrong Direction. We cannot mandate that people make smart decisions. There are such things as personal responsibility and free will. Indeed, the concept of choice is central to the U.S. healthcare system. We all benefit from a selection of doctors and plans. Universal care will only limit those choices. In the process, it will also reduce our control over our own health and the overall quality of care.

2. Insurance is a better way to get to universal care. It doesn’t disrupt all the norms. It preserves choice. It encourages competition and thus cost control. And it doesn’t add an enormous new cost burden to an overloaded deficit nor require a new government bureaucracy.

3. Covering all residents in all territories is ludicrous. That would mean U.S. taxpayers would foot the bill for every citizen and legal alien from Guam to Georgetown, regardless of their ability to pay or willingness to work. In addition, Americans would be paying to cover some 12,000 illegal immigrants. There’s no way that will cut costs; it will probably raise them.

4. There aren’t enough physicians to go around. Many rural and inner-city areas are already underserved. The result will be longer and longer wait times for everyone – and of course, response time can make all the difference when it comes to healthcare.

5. Physician salaries will likely be frozen or decrease. This could drive even more doctors from the field and leave us with a dispirited, underpaid, understaffed healthcare infrastructure. Worse, gifted candidates could be less inclined to choose the medical profession in the future, which would simply exacerbate the problem.

6. It does not address medical liability. The high cost of liability insurance has already driven many physicians out of business. Any healthcare reform must make the practice of medicine a financially viable choice as well as a professional calling.

7. It’s too abrupt a change. Even if we embrace some form of universal coverage, it must be gradual enough for all parts of the healthcare system to keep up. This bill has no transitional strategy and no implementation plan. We just wake up on January 1 and everything has changed. It will throw government, the medical community and the people into an uproar.

8. It will stifle medical research and development. Pharmaceutical and medical equipment suppliers will be squeezed to the point there’s no money left to invest in new discoveries. The number of new or innovative treatments will decline over time as we reduce the amount of research fed into the development pipeline.

9. It will decapitate and decimate two primary industries. There are about 800,000 people employed in the health insurance industry and another 82,000 pharmaceutical researchers and developers who could be affected. In addition, it could take billions of dollars out of the free market. The impact of this upheaval on the overall economy could be enormous.

10. The government isn’t equipped to manage healthcare. We’ll get bogged down in bureaucracy and endless debates about what is “medically necessary.” It’s unrealistic and dangerous to consolidate the healthcare of our whole nation in a 15-member Board with no history of working together.

11. The costs are not contained. If you think costs are out of control now, wait until government gets its hands on a system with no built-in limits. HR676 asks us to give the federal government any “amounts sufficient to carry out this act.” We cannot afford to take on another $1.2 trillion – or more – every year.

12. It’s loaded with unspecified tax increases. To pay for this behemoth, every stock and bond transaction could be subject to a “small” tax. Businesses and individuals will still have to pay some form of excise tax. The rest of the cost will fall on the top 5% of wage earners. No numbers or limits are specified on any of these provisions, which is both sloppy and ill-conceived.

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