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The answers to AAPS Single Payer IQ Test™ questions and relevant “take-home lessons,” are now available as a handy one-page (double-sided) study guide, to educate patients, friends, family, and voters who are hearing more about single-payer and Medicare-for-All during the midterm campaign season. The guide is available as a PDF download here: http://aapsonline.org/single-payer-iq-study-guide.pdf or simply click […]
Answer: On the contrary; medical treatment becomes a privilege granted by the Payer. Bernie Sanders promises patients that if we had Single Payer, all they’d have to do is show their insurance card, and they’d get all the treatment they need—no copays, no hassles, no bills. Doctors are promised relief from the complexities of […]
Answer: Costs would increase. The single payer would try to limit spending with wage and price controls and possibly a global budget. When something is perceived as being “free” or nearly so, demand increases, as all human experience verifies and as illustrated in the classic supply-demand curve below. But of course, someone is paying. When […]
Answer: $32 trillion over 10 years is one guess. Actually, it will devour every dollar that can be taken from taxpayers or creditors and diverted to the system. Bernie Sanders himself pegged the price of his “Medicare for All” single-payer plan at $1.38 trillion per year. This is about the same amount that the federal […]
Answer: Whomever it pleases. Some money will trickle down to those who help patients, but 40% or more may be siphoned off en route. It is often asserted that Medicare is the very model of efficiency, with a mere 3% in administrative costs. But that is just the part of the HHS and CMS budget […]
Answer: Younger and less experienced physicians, foreign physicians, subservient physicians, non-physicians—or possibly no one. Having an insurance card doesn’t help if there are 50 people ahead of you in the waiting room—and the doctor is not in. Single payer is supposed to remove the barrier of having to pay for care, but none of the […]
Answer: If the condition is “covered,” it could be illegal for anyone other than the single payer to pay for treatment—so it will be unavailable. Charlie Gard, not Billy Kimmel, is the face of single payer. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) not only denied baby Charlie treatment for his rare genetic condition, but refused to […]
Answer: The federal government is the “single payer,” collecting money from taxpayers and creditors and distributing it through its agencies and contractors. Most American advocates of the single payer will say they are against “socialized medicine,” in which the government owns the means of production, and medical workers are its employees. This is the monopoly […]
Bernie Sanders is introducing his “Medicare for All” proposal, with the support of at least 15 Democrat senators, including all considered likely to be presidential hopefuls in 2020. Could a “fringe” proposal, which would “never, ever” come to pass, according to Hillary Clinton, be moving in to fill the vacuum created by the implosion of […]
The momentum for “single payer,” “Medicare for All,” or “Medicare Extra” is building at both the state and national levels, especially after the narrow primary election victory of young democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in New York, observes the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). The sky-high premiums, huge deductibles, and complexities of ObamaCare make […]