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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSolution to the 'mandate' Brilliant!
Persons who decline insurance would be allowed to provide details of how they intended to pay for care otherwise, if they wished to do so, and to name a person who would be responsible for paying for the care if the patient were unable to direct payment, much as many people now have health care proxies.Anyone who chose not to have health insurance, and not to indicate how they would otherwise pay, would be put on a Do Not Treat list. Hospitals could simply refuse to offer any treatment, respecting the persons wish to make his or her own decisions free of an intrusive government trying to keep them alive.
I doubt many people would sign up for such a system, but it would certainly overcome the alleged constitutional flaw in the current health care law.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/how-about-a-do-not-treat-list/?hp
Absolutely brilliant.
Oh...and those on Medicare who are against 'socialized' medicine should turn in their Medicare cards.
Yep.
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Solution to the 'mandate' Brilliant! (Original Post)
trof
Mar 2012
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WingDinger
(3,690 posts)1. Really crapstrewn slippery slope.
trof
(54,256 posts)3. I think it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but...
it does nail those who want to scuttle the entire bill by (somewhat facetiously) railing against the mandate part.
"OK, fine. YOU can opt out of that.
Just don't expect the rest of us to pick up your ER tab."
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. There is no way that medical professionals are going to refuse to treat someone in need
and to pass a law like this would be heinous.