Rep. Yoder: Socialized Medicine Is Knocking on the Door, America
The Obamacare status quo is unacceptable.
It's become so obvious that politicians on both sides of the aisle are acknowledging it and proposing solutions to fix it.
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Socialized medicine in America is no longer a hypothetical. Senator
But what would the single payer reality look like?
First, the cost. The nonpartisan
Doubling the size of the federal government would take massive tax increases. An across the board doubling of rates would drive the top bracket from 39.6 percent to a whopping 79.2 percent tax of their income. Individuals making
In return, every American would be forced onto a socialized health care system to receive insurance from central planners in
In America, we value choice, competition, and access to care. In socialized medicine, those luxuries would be gone.
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Under a similar system, our wait times for routine surgeries like knee replacements would surpass 14 weeks, far longer than the 11 days it is now.
Long wait times would worsen our already existing emergency room overcrowding because Medicaid patients can't find primary care doctors who will accept their insurance.
Eventually, our emergency rooms could face a 50 percent doctor shortage.
In addition to the overcrowding, severe doctor shortages would be exacerbated as doctors would flee the system rather than be forced to take inadequate reimbursements for their services as set by the government.
Eventually, a two-tiered system based on wealth status would emerge here as it has in other socialized systems.
Private doctors would allow wealthy patients to jump the line for same-day appointments for a price. The rest of us would be forced to wait months for a visit with the government.
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Thankfully, it's not too late.
To stop socialized medicine from becoming reality,
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