Do Republicans Know Medicare is “Who Pays” Not “Who Gives Health Care Services”… Socialized Health Care.

Related: Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan Privatization of Medicare Plan

Is Medicare socialized?  Yes. Absolutely. Medicare is the US government guaranteeing health benefits for its citizens (paying for those benefits). In the case of Medicare, it’s just people who are over 65. Doctors accept Medicare as a payer. Are the rates lower? Yes – because they have the buying power to negotiate a better deal… just like Wal-Mart.

Medicare is a socialized health care system. Medicare is just like Canada, the UK, and all of Western Europe… but only for old people. If you love Medicare, then you love socialized health care. If you love Medicare, then you’re insane to NOT want to have a single payer system for all US citizens.

That sad part about the Medicare “debate” is that those in favor of privatization have made the waters so muddy that it’s impossible for the average Republican to see clearly on the issue. They want to privatize for one reason: it makes more money for health insurance providers. That’s it. It’s the same reason they argue to privatize Social Security: broker fees and more money for Wall Street.

The question to ask yourself is: do you value a guarantee in your retirement, or do you value a gamble? If you want a guarantee, then you WANT socialized health care and to keep Social Security what it is today: socialized NOT privatized.

Medicare is NOT health care services. It’s NOT a hospital or a doctor or a drug. It’s the method by which those things are PAID FOR in for elderly people in the United States: they are paid for by the US Government.

Medicare IS a single payer health program, but only for the elderly of this country. Medicare IS socialized health care in that, being single payer, it is the thing that pays for the health care services, not the person or a health insurance company.

Say it together now: Medicare IS single payer health care. 

That means Medicare is socialized. And you LOVE IT!

The battle that is going on in Washington is NOT about health care SERVICES, it’s about health INSURANCE. It’s about who pays for health care and who profits from it.

Since it’s about who PAYS not who PROVIDES, that’s why Republicans want to privatize Medicare: because they make a ton of money from getting health insurance premiums from all of the elderly in the country.

We have to look at some logic again, Republicans, so stick with me:

1. You like Medicare. We all like Medicare. It’s a great thing.
2. Medicare is single payer.
3. Single payer means the government pays for it all.
4. The government paying for it all means socialized.
5. Yet republicans seem to all hate socialized health care – because most have no idea what it actually means.
6. Everyone else in the country has private health insurance coverage (except the millions who can’t afford it because it’s too expensive). Private health insurance providers = privatized health care system.
7. You all hate that getting private health insurance coverage is so darn expensive (i.e. buying it on your own, which is what Republicans will mandate the elderly do if they privatize health care… see the problem here?)
8. Private health insurance companies GO OUT OF BUSINESS if they don’t make profits. As such, they charge high premiums, especially for high-risk people… like the elderly, and that has made private health INSURANCE, which is what Republicans want Medicare to become by privatizing it, too expensive, if not completely unobtainable because they deny coverage int he first place.

There is no great TERRIBLE idea than privatizing Medicare. The only people who will benefit are insurance companies who wil continue to charge high premiums …. if they even decide to cover an 80 year old person with health problems in the first place… which we all know they won’t… so….

Medicare is Single Payer. You love Medicare, therefore you love single payer.

The private health insurance system is too expensive and does not work to cover everyone in the country. Privatizing Medicare means making the elderly has to buy insurance from private health providers (the private health insurance system), therefore privatizing Medicare is too expensive and will not work.