Henry Ford
Footballguy
I certainly understand that many people don't support Medicare for All or Single Payer Healthcare. There are other threads for that, and it's a big topic. I'd like to know whether people support the following:
When people are victims of crimes and have no health insurance or poor health insurance, it can lead to a complete disruption and/or destruction of their lives. For example - one of the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Anthony Borges, was shot five times while shielding classmates from gunfire, has had extensive surgery and wears a colostomy bag. That's not just a huge life disruption, it's a massive financial disruption, likely for life.
Worker's compensation gives us a model wherein an insurance company can pay for medical treatment related only to a specific injury. The injury at work gets taken care of by worker's compensation insurance, everything else is the responsibility of the worker by private payment or other insurance. The insurance company can challenge whether an injury or treatment is related to work, and similarly, a fund could challenge whether an injury or treatment is related to a crime.
Using that model, would you support a government-funded and government-run "compensation for victims of crimes" healthcare "insurance" to pay for the medical treatment of victims of violent crimes?
When people are victims of crimes and have no health insurance or poor health insurance, it can lead to a complete disruption and/or destruction of their lives. For example - one of the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Anthony Borges, was shot five times while shielding classmates from gunfire, has had extensive surgery and wears a colostomy bag. That's not just a huge life disruption, it's a massive financial disruption, likely for life.
Worker's compensation gives us a model wherein an insurance company can pay for medical treatment related only to a specific injury. The injury at work gets taken care of by worker's compensation insurance, everything else is the responsibility of the worker by private payment or other insurance. The insurance company can challenge whether an injury or treatment is related to work, and similarly, a fund could challenge whether an injury or treatment is related to a crime.
Using that model, would you support a government-funded and government-run "compensation for victims of crimes" healthcare "insurance" to pay for the medical treatment of victims of violent crimes?