The only thing you need to know to understand why Universal Insurance Care is an epic failure:

[Zhade]

Thank you.

[Gold Metal Flake]

1. Bumper sticker.

T shirt.

Coffee mug.

[LynzM]

11. Also: Health care not profit care

And:

Greed is a pre-existing condition

[patrice]

2. Cheese and Crackers got All Muddy, America!, WAKE the fuck up!!!

[Oregone]

3. Unless its public single-payer insurance

had to be said

[Zhade]

4. Please, elaborate the difference. Show me how that matters.

NT!

[Oregone]

5. Well...

When all necessary medical procedures provided by a doctor are automatically paid out by the system, ONLY the doctor and the patient are involved in health care decisions.

When profit is taken out of the insurance end, there is not an incentive to deny paying for anyone's care (other than resource limits, but if its tax funded, this subsides)

Your OP talks about corporate profits. There are none in single-payer insurance that are generated by denying care.

[Zhade]

7. It seems disingenuous to call that "insurance" instead of "health care".

It blurs the line between for-profit insurance and UHC.

I agree that health care should not be for profit (or I wouldn't have posted the OP).

[Oregone]

8. Thats just the reality

Single-Payer Insurance pays for health care, no questions asked.

Its insurance because it meets the definition of insurance. There is a risk pool and people pay into a service in order to receive compensation when something goes wrong.

My single-payer insurance entity is called "Health Insurance BC". Its provides the (in)famous Canadian universal health care.

You don't have to have profit to call it insurance. In fact, you don't have to have profit in any industry for a business to operate in that industry.

There are a lot of ways to do UHC. This is one. Others include socializing the medical field too, while some actually use a couple private non-profit multi-payers. UHC is not a single solution, but more of a way to describe what category many systems fit in.

Though I would say this multi-payer private crap the democrats propose will NOT be UHC

[uppityperson]

6. Total non-profit insurance, public insurance where no profit is

made by those making the decisions. Where the medical decisions are made by the doctor and patient and only paid for by the insurance company?

That is not insane

[WeCanWorkItOut]

9. Non-profit Blue Cross (in the 70s) was not very responsible.

But then it had enormous market power,
and it was dominated by doctors.
So it permitted a lot of price-hiking.

It might be better if we had a choice
of public options, so we could avoid some
of the abuses.

[indepat]

10. A corrupt, venal, and self-serving Congress knows not to deny those who deny health care

to fatten corporate profits their fatted corporate profits. :P