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D-a-H-e-c-k t1_j6z8dha wrote

Reply to comment by Pruedrive in CT residents would see billions in medical debt erased under Lamont plan: 'It's the right thing to do' by savings2015

At the state level sure. Don't agree with a national single payer health plan. Perhaps a federal network and framework, but I don't trust the Fed to manage such a service properly

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maybe_little_pinch t1_j6zfvu8 wrote

Eh. But then you will have red states refusing it and gutting it like they did with the Medicaid expansion. This whole “the states do it better” schlock needs to die when it comes to stuff like human rights. Healthcare is a human right.

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RWMach t1_j7137q3 wrote

The bigger issue I see is that no state even ATTEMPTS to implement a system like that in their own state. States like CT, NY and CA say it's such a good idea and the only way forward Yada Yada, but that never try making a state system despite every republican in the federal system saying it should be up to the states.

Well, if it's up to the states and no state implements anything, what does that say?

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D-a-H-e-c-k t1_j6zh0b7 wrote

No one has rights to other people's labor.

The closer the government the more accountable to its constituents. State level healthcare is on the same population scale as most other healthcare systems around the world.

To get right down to it I'd rather just have it at the municipal level.

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blumpkinmania t1_j6zmu56 wrote

That cant work because poor and sick people will just move to places that have universal care and bankrupt those places. It must be national.

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D-a-H-e-c-k t1_j6zpeeq wrote

Property values will accommodate demand.

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blumpkinmania t1_j700437 wrote

Yeah. I’m not sure keeping the poor and sick out by turbo charging already high housing costs is a viable let alone desirable idea.

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D-a-H-e-c-k t1_j709vsr wrote

That's a separate issue. Same with education. Housing values follow school performance.

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Pruedrive t1_j6za8qw wrote

Sure there is a lot of distrust but the federal goverment is perfectly capable of running large agency's and programs, as long as they properly fund them and give them enough autonomy to do their own thing. Can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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shotpun t1_j73wosj wrote

imagine how fucking horrible the USPS would be if you made it a state by state thing. some things just need to be able to communicate internally on a national scale

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