Reply #23: If everyone [View All]

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is insured in the exact same way, then how would you be limited in what doctors you choose to see more so than you are now? If there is one coverage for everyone, then everyone would have the same choice of doctors. Fragmenting coverage to thousands of different private providers is exactly why choice is limited for most in the first place. If private insurance is done away with, and everyone has the same plan under one provider, then everyone has access to the same doctors as everyone else. Making health coverage universal would greatly increase the list of doctors just about everyone could see, regardless of the plan. Are you telling me that your plan allows you to see whomever you want, and they'll foot the bill 100%? If that is the kind of care you have, then you are very much the exception. I don't think society should have to capitulate to that very small percentage so that small percentage can maintain their status quo (that can be taken away at any moment), and others have to go without.

Under the health care you have now, through a private entity, you have no control over what doctor you see. You really have no choice. You perceive that you have a choice, because the health insurance is letting you make that choice. As long as they're footing the bill, however, there is nothing to stop them from telling you you can't go to that doctor anymore unless you want to pay for it yourself. Basically, that's the case whenever any 3rd party is paying the bill for you, but it is particularly true when that 3rd party is a private entity who's bottom line is profit.

Not to mention the fact that your private carriers can drop you, or refuse to take you in the first place, something that couldn't happen under UHC, because everyone is guaranteed coverage. Some people are un insurable under the current system.