Reply #17: Clinton's plan was for the government to assume the role of employer [View All]

[Bandit]

And pay for the insurance when the employer wouldn't or couldn't. It would have been exactly the same coverage as what IBM provides for their employees. We know what happened to that one.GOP shot it down. My idea is to make it similar to the military. Have government hospitals where no one gets turned away. Government doctors on salary and government buying in bulk would reduce inventory costs of drugs etc. In that scenerio there would be little choice if you chose to utilize the government hospital but you would still have the option of using a private source and paying the going rate.