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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/107 to Matt Munson on Mon May 1 18:40:00 2017
    Enter SB 562, California~s effort in having a single payer health care
    system.
    Co-written
    by Senators Lara and Atkins it is called the ~Healthy California Act~, where the authors
    strive to improve access to health care. I agree that something should be
    done
    when
    insurance premiums are approaching almost 10 thousand dollars for a family. However,
    the bad point of the bill is no private option.

    People don't believe that you cannot have socialized medicine if you offer a private option. I was told that years ago but did not believe it. As I have gotten older, I do. I think that is what has happened with ACA, sort of, except that the young folks they expected to get on it to keep it afloat took the "option" of no care. Meanwhile, those who could afford private (and who were likely more-healthy) did that.

    Without forcing everyone onto the same system (no private option), you cannot force the healthy and wealthy to subsidize the rest. Taxes would be too high to force them to pay for it that way, so you have to get them on the same system as the rest.

    Those of us that would want choice will never get it again if they ever go
    that route.

    Mike

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  • From matt munson@1:116/18 to Mike Powell on Wed May 3 00:02:36 2017
    On 5/1/2017 6:40 PM, Mike Powell wrote to Matt Munson:

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    Enter SB 562, California~s effort in having a single payer health care
    system.
    Co-written
    by Senators Lara and Atkins it is called the ~Healthy California Act~,
    where
    the authors
    strive to improve access to health care. I agree that something should be
    done
    when
    insurance premiums are approaching almost 10 thousand dollars for a
    family.
    However,
    the bad point of the bill is no private option.

    People don't believe that you cannot have socialized medicine if you offer a private option. I was told that years ago but did not believe it. As I
    have
    gotten older, I do. I think that is what has happened with ACA, sort of, except that the young folks they expected to get on it to keep it afloat
    took
    the "option" of no care. Meanwhile, those who could afford private (and who were likely more-healthy) did that.

    Without forcing everyone onto the same system (no private option), you
    cannot
    force the healthy and wealthy to subsidize the rest. Taxes would be too
    high
    to force them to pay for it that way, so you have to get them on the same system as the rest.

    Those of us that would want choice will never get it again if they ever go that route.

    People would be on the public option automatically, but would also be given the
    option of
    private supplemental coverage. California bill would make private supplemental coverage illegal.

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