Equitable
By Mitch Berg
A friend of the blog, who works in the medical industry, notes:
Liberals often like to say that the US is ready for single payer healthcare. Then, we have something like this.
This is the evidence that people don’t want single payer healthcare. Allina is simply asking nurses to share the wealth. As one nurse noted, it would be like a 15% pay cut.
Allina has said that transitioning nurses to a different plan would be equitable.
As I see it, if this much of a fight is going to be put up over sharing the wealth in a state like Minnesota, how would it play in the rest of the country? The only part that I don’t really understand is why people keep voting for liberal, share the wealth type policies when they clearly don’t want to themselves.
My theory: they want the part of “single payer healthcare” that makes them feel good about doing big things with other peoples’ money.
They don’t want any actual change in their own life.
Hope we’ve cleared that up.
June 15th, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Off topic a little bit, but I have to wonder if the nurses’ union would change their tune if the entire cost of their insurance showed up on their W2 as taxable income. You want to reduce the cost of medical care? Show us the full bill and we’re going to start to pay attention.
June 15th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
Headline: White house urges states to resist ObamaCare hikes.
No, it is not a joke. It is like we are living in a parallel universe right now.
June 15th, 2016 at 5:36 pm
JPA; translated, that means “please don’t tell the world the full cost or Hilliary doesn’t get this house and this gets repealed.”