What to know about 'BernieCare,' Sanders' health overhaul

Only because they adopted single-payer decades ago, when it was actually affordable, and have controlled the rate of increase ever since.

 

That should have been a feature, rather than a bug. All of Vermont's 65 and older population, and their onerous healthcare costs, would have been excluded from the state plan.

 

Wouldn't it make more sense for people to pay the routine dr. visits and have the plan cover only major medical like surgeries?

 

It's the routine visits people won't bother with if money is tight. That vague flu-like symptom can wait, then they discover later it's lymphoma.

 

Who's fault is that?
If folks don't have to pay for major medical, they could afford dr. visits. That's what makes plans so high. You have to pay something yourself to keep costs down.

 

Depends on if the doctor charges $25 or $555

 

There are free market alternatives:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/economy/cash-only-doctors/index.html

 

He will cause more than that...........

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University professor, 37, dies from lung cancer after string of doctors dismissed symptoms as 'anxiety and depression'

Premature twins died after being given 10 times too much morphine, nursing tribunal hears

Failings in NHS cost 30,000 lives every year

Inspections highlight 'barbaric' home care failings

NHS watchdog to tackle malnutrition in hospitals

Elderly warned of growing isolation as face-to-face care cut

Family of RAF's finest who shot V1 rockets out the sky forced to sell medals to pay for care home

Closing the Independent Living Fund shows how low the government will go

Elderly patients diagnosed with 'acopia' - a disease that does not exist

Mid-Staffs scandal: Sir David Nicholson could face corporate manslaughter and misconduct charges

Growing fears of Bolton hospital death rate 'cover up'

Patients 'are still in danger from nurses who can't speak English' say MPs, as they call for urgent action

Older diabetics are suffering 'needless' amputations and blindness because they get the worst care

Pensioner placed on Liverpool Care Pathway WITHOUT family's permission dies after spending eight days without food or water

‘Basic errors in care cause kidney deaths’

Choosing a GP means gambling with your life – this must stop

Seventeen NHS hospitals have dangerously low numbers of nurses

Hospital patients won’t complain for fear of retribution

New avoidable-deaths scandal to put more pressure on NHS chief

Nurse linked to the death of premature twins killed by '10 times too much morphine' is allowed to keep working

NHS neglect: elderly patients ‘denied help with food’

Hip fracture patients suffering 'indefensible postcode lottery'

Snap inspections expose scandal of 'institutionalised abuse' in care homes and hospitals

Children's lives are being put at risk by a 'chronic shortage' of hospital doctors on weekends and evenings

Hospital that left patients lying in soiled sheets and shivering with cold is given a stark warning to improve by health watchdog

Mother-of-three dies of meningitis just five days after being admitted to hospital with EARACHE

A&E patients being forced to wait in ambulances for up to eight hours because of lack of beds

An unprecedented crisis is approaching, say the health service’s most senior figures

Number of patients being tied up and locked in rooms by care staff DOUBLES as MPs issue warning about hospital abuse

Thousands dying of thirst on NHS: Watchdog forced to issue guidelines on giving patients water

Woman who was sterilised is horrified to discover metal surgical clip had travelled from her groin to her CHEST

'My daughter was sent home from A&E to die of croup': Grieving mother to sue hospital after one-year-old's death

The little girl who could have been saved from meningitis - by jab NHS refuses to fund

Concerns over nursery worker who raped child 'were not investigated'

GPs predict longer waiting times - survey

NHS waiting lists are longest in five years

Pensioner died in agony after developing a horrific bedsore in hospital which left her spine exposed

Grandmother, 55, died from cervical cancer after her GP dismissed her symptoms as the MENOPAUSE

Children left disabled by meningitis after GPs failed to diagnose them are paid £28m in compensation

Girl, two, 'died after doctors failed to talk to each other about MRI scan that showed she had water on the brain'

Surge in elderly abuse and neglect claims

'I would worry if my family was taken to hospital at weekends': NHS boss admits he is concerned about staffing levels

How GPs are paid £50 bonus to put elderly on 'death lists'

Christian missionary, 49, died of heart failure and brain damage after waiting more than an HOUR for ambulance to arrive

'You condemned my sweetheart to death'

Doctors, nurses and managers to face five years in jail if they neglect patients

Dehydration and malnutrition led to 2,162 deaths in care since 2003

Jeremy Hunt says 32 hospitals are under investigation over links to claims of sexual abuse by presenter

Colchester hospital faces criminal investigation over waiting list figures

Brain haemorrhage patients face unnecessary delays, study finds

Four hospitals understaffed, says NHS watchdog

Royal College of Nursing claims that as many as one in six nursing posts at some NHS hospitals are lying vacant

Thousands of seriously ill NHS patients reportedly denied drugs

‘Postcode lottery’ denies patients access to treatment despite obesity crisis, surgeons warn

Midwives and patients warn of ‘devastating’ staff shortages

'He loved the NHS, but it let him down': Councillor, 78, died after waiting 15 months for triple bypass and a new heart valve

'Our son died because he dropped off the appointments list': Parent's heartbreak after crucial scan for boy, 3, was missed

Scandal-hit Mid-Staffs NHS Trust to be broken up after hundreds died as a result of appalling care

The hospital blunders that allowed a new mother to die

Heart failure cases do not get specialist care, doctors warn

Man mistakenly given vasectomy instead of minor procedure

Transplant patient wins payout over kidney from donor with cancer

Essex care home worker arrested on suspicion of assaulting elderly resident

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Victory for widow awarded £50,000 in damages after GP misdiagnosed her husband's deadly bowel cancer as PILES

NHS patients not treated fast enough, say MSPs

NHS patients in uproar over 'incompetent' drug delivery service

Cancer waiting time figures reveal first breach of target

Mother-of-five, 46, died from breast cancer after being misdiagnosed with TENNIS ELBOW for two years

'My baby died of whooping cough after doctors sent him home three times': Mother's devastation at death of baby boy

Breast cancer victims ‘left in needless pain’: Terminally ill failed by care system

The British mum killed by a 'drunk' doctor in C-section blunder: Devastated partner says he is 'going to let justice do its job'

Yet ANOTHER NHS horror story from Wales: Dying elderly cancer patient left 'screaming in pain' on a trolley in A&E for nine hours

Great-grandmother, 89, left lying on pavement in the rain for two hours because of 'high demand' for ambulances

Grandmother had six months of gruelling chemotherapy only to discover she NEVER had terminal liver cancer

Twinkle in my eye turned out to be cancer: When former Hull City chairman Paul Duffen had sparks in his vision, GPs diagnosed a sinus problem. The truth was more sinister...

Mother left brain damaged and needing 24-hour care after doctors missed signs of deadly infection wins six-figure payout

Mum called NHS 111 helpline 23 times before death

'Insufficient' Government funding threatens NHS's ability to provide universally safe maternity care, says MPs

Maisha Najeeb: Girl to receive multimillion-pound payout from hospital after accidental injection of glue into brain

More than 11,000 lives could have been saved if heart attack care in Britain matched that in Sweden

Waiting times at five-year high in British National Health Service

Are five-hour waits for ambulances the sad state of our healthcare system?

'Insufficient' Government funding threatens NHS's ability to provide universally safe maternity care, says MPs

Data reveals six NHS trusts with 'persistently' high death rates

Maisha Najeeb: Girl to receive multimillion-pound payout from hospital after accidental injection of glue into brain


More than 11,000 lives could have been saved if heart attack care in Britain matched that in Sweden

Thousands of seriously ill NHS patients reportedly denied drugs

Four and a half hour wait for ill 81-year-old

Pensioner with broken hip waited TWO HOURS for ambulance

Schoolboy with back pain left lying in field for TWO HOURS

Woman with serious illness told of EIGHT HOUR wait to see doctor

Concussed horse rider waited FOUR HOURS for ambulance

Crashed biker waits nearly 90 mins for ambulance

Yet ANOTHER NHS horror story from Wales: Dying elderly cancer patient left 'screaming in pain' on a trolley in A&E for nine hours

Heart-attack victims forced to wait FOUR hours for ambulances

'Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed

NHS mental health care in crisis: 'There is no hope for people like me'

NHS surgery horror stories revealed

Britain’s Single-Payer Horror Show: Report Details NHS Body Count

HOSPITAL patients were left unwashed for up to a MONTH by uncaring nurses — as bosses cut staff and slashed costs, an inquiry revealed yesterday.

Hospital horror: Coatbridge couple slam NHS chiefs after 'botched surgery'

In case the NHS horror stories couldn’t get any worse….

Four and a half hour wait for ill 81-year-old

Heart-attack victims forced to wait FOUR hours for ambulances

Overcrowded Hospitals Overwhelm U.K.'s National Health Service

My NHS: From relief to horror after I contracted MRSA on the ward

Britain’s Single-Payer Horror Show: Report Details NHS Body Count

Yet ANOTHER NHS horror story from Wales: Dying elderly cancer patient left 'screaming in pain' on a trolley in A&E for nine hours

NHS case study: Sunday Mirror readers reveal their hospital horror stories

Overcrowded Hospitals Overwhelm U.K.'s National Health Service

NHS surgery horror stories revealed

NHS horror: Heart-attack victims forced to wait FOUR hours for ambulances

In case the NHS horror stories couldn’t get any worse….

Up to 1,200 needless deaths, patients abused, staff bullied to meet targets... yet a secret inquiry into failing hospital says no one's to blame

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