If you honestly think that California could, singlehandedly introduce a fundamentally different healthcare system than the rest of the country… I mean, wow. That’s just… Not at all how things work.
Politics is a lot easier to talk about when you aren’t constrained by reality although that talk doesn’t mean much.
States already have their own regulatory frameworks for insurance and the provision of healthcare services, it’s very doable for states to implement healthcare legislation. It just happened in Ohio to some degree, and that was a ballot initiative.
States already have their own regulatory frameworks for insurance and the provision of healthcare services
You understand that’s fundamentally different than transforming into universal healthcare, right? You might as well say that I am qualified to run google as I’ve used search AND have a gmail account.
It just happened in Ohio to some degree, and that was a ballot initiative.
Are you actually comparing a right to abortion with implementing universal healthcare? Really?
There is no healthcare planning at the federal level in the US and states vary greatly in how they regulate healthcare. There is nothing stopping California Democrats from implementing publicly funded healthcare other than they don’t want to do this because it runs contrary to the interest of their donors and PACs. State funded programs already provide primary care in cases where people aren’t served by FFS. This even goes to municipal-level public health clinics. The idea a state government can’t provide healthcare funding to it’s citizens is contrary to programs that already exist. Expanding public health clinics and having the government negotiate fees with practitioners is absolutely doable because it already happens.
There is no healthcare planning at the federal level in the US
No one said there was?
But honestly… Well, it reminds me of when I was a really young kid and I watched soccer. I couldn’t understand why the players ran really fast sometimes and couldn’t just do that all the time.
That’s sort of what this argument sounds like.
It’s about as compelling as your nonsensical decision that protecting the right to abortion was pretty much the same as instituting a radically different form of healthcare.
I think this has been as productive as it’s going to be. Cheers.
If you honestly think that California could, singlehandedly introduce a fundamentally different healthcare system than the rest of the country… I mean, wow. That’s just… Not at all how things work.
Politics is a lot easier to talk about when you aren’t constrained by reality although that talk doesn’t mean much.
States already have their own regulatory frameworks for insurance and the provision of healthcare services, it’s very doable for states to implement healthcare legislation. It just happened in Ohio to some degree, and that was a ballot initiative.
You understand that’s fundamentally different than transforming into universal healthcare, right? You might as well say that I am qualified to run google as I’ve used search AND have a gmail account.
Are you actually comparing a right to abortion with implementing universal healthcare? Really?
There is no healthcare planning at the federal level in the US and states vary greatly in how they regulate healthcare. There is nothing stopping California Democrats from implementing publicly funded healthcare other than they don’t want to do this because it runs contrary to the interest of their donors and PACs. State funded programs already provide primary care in cases where people aren’t served by FFS. This even goes to municipal-level public health clinics. The idea a state government can’t provide healthcare funding to it’s citizens is contrary to programs that already exist. Expanding public health clinics and having the government negotiate fees with practitioners is absolutely doable because it already happens.
No one said there was?
But honestly… Well, it reminds me of when I was a really young kid and I watched soccer. I couldn’t understand why the players ran really fast sometimes and couldn’t just do that all the time.
That’s sort of what this argument sounds like.
It’s about as compelling as your nonsensical decision that protecting the right to abortion was pretty much the same as instituting a radically different form of healthcare.
I think this has been as productive as it’s going to be. Cheers.