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Originally Posted by hobbes9324
Well, Heller just announced he's out on the Senate bill, and if he sticks to what he said in his press conference, it's hard to see how they're going to change it enough to get his vote.
Weird. Nevada has two relatively reasonable GOP's - Heller and the soon-to-be ex gov. Sandoval. Not where you'd expect to see such an endangered species.
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Nevada is a pretty moderate state these days, largely due to the growth of Las Vegas (its population nearly doubled from 1990 to 2000 and went up another 22% from 2000 to 2010), and immigration in the region.
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
i obv realise that preventing some of your neighbors from accessing healthcare is a great laff, but is it really worth an extra 7% of gdp
A lot of this has to do with the Western diet, and food additives that are used a ton in the US compared to the rest of the world... High fructose corn syrup being the prime example.
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Originally Posted by synth_floyd
Can't they just offer a government run single payer system that people have the option to buy into? If you like your current employer healthcare or whatever healthcare you already have then you don't have to do anything and nothing will change for you. I know Obama said "If you like your current healthcare you can keep it" and that ended up being not true but I don't know what happened with that.
Nevada is actually considering something similar to this. Everyone would have an option to buy into the state Medicaid program at cost.
Obviously the risk is that employers see this, drop coverage, and view it as a cost-saving mechanism without increasing wages, which makes people lose the coverage they want to keep. My proposal would be:
1. Anyone can buy into "single payer," style coverage (Medicaid, Medicare, whatever) at cost.
2. Anyone who's employer drops their coverage can also buy into that plan, in other words the insurer must accept them at the same cost as before.
3. Any employer who drops coverage must increase their employee's salary by the cost of the plan they dropped.
Then you may get people laying off employee A to hire employee B, but ultimately there is going to be a path for the greedy and heartless to benefit, and we can fight that one on the living wage front.