There would be the VA, a plan/program for the general population, then a health care plan for Congress and staff, and how may others? Which plan would offer the best care? How would a difference be justified?
A good question, and these three have not answered it.
Yes. There would be several federal programs, with some better than others. I do not know the names of the programs already in existence for the elites of the federal government. I wish I did.
If Single Payer passes, how many federal health plans/programs will there be?
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Single Payer hasn’t even been proposed, which makes it tough to answer such a hypothetical. It depends on whether or not the bill (which nobody in power is proposing) consolidated some of the existing plans or just added a new one. I would point out the political difficulties in messing with the current systems like medicare and the VA, but since passing a single payer plan is so far fetched anyway in the current political climate, combining these plans isn’t really any more far-fetched.
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In theory, there should be only one federal plan, though the lobby managed to get the idea of a single-payer system tossed out before it could even be debated.
Anybody wanting private care should be able to purchase it, and the rest of us should have care equal to that available in Canada and Europe, paid out of our taxes.
Granted, tort reform and the severe reduction of the involvement of lawyers in medicine would be necessary for this to work, but I don’t think there would be a lot of grousing about that…
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Single payer is not on the table and never has been.
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A good question, and these three have not answered it.
Yes. There would be several federal programs, with some better than others. I do not know the names of the programs already in existence for the elites of the federal government. I wish I did.
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The VA.