Democratic Socialist, Bernie Sanders, has been trying to pass some form of Medicare for All for over 40 years and he has failed.
Most people have no idea what Medicare for All is. Is it allowing everyone who doesn’t have health insurance or those who can’t afford it to sign up for Medicare? If so, what parts? A? B? C or D? Or all of it? Or is it only for those who can’t afford insurance. If so how can they afford Medicare, because it isn’t free. Ask any retiree.
Medicare for All isn’t what you think it is. It is a complete overhaul of our healthcare system and it is going no where. It eliminates the insurance industry (which actually isn’t a bad idea) and the millions of unnecessary jobs that would be transitioned into the government. They call it a “single payer system” or “Universal Health Care”, other simple minded titles that simple minded people can understand. The last time it was filed it died in committee after the cost was estimated at $30 TRILLION. That’s TRILLION with a T. That alone would scare the living shit out of most Americans and it does.
The problem with Medicare for All is that no one can sell the idea to the America public and no one who advocates for it has performed the hard work to sell it. Ask Bernie and his Bernie Buds. They talk a big game but have yet to do the hard work to make it happen. Ask how hard it was to pass the Affordable Care Act. It requires a tremendous amount of negotiation and compromise, something the supporters of Medicare for All can’t and won’t do. So in the end they get nothing.
Everyone wants health care especially when they are sick, but those who have it are afraid of having something different. Those who don’t have it are not willing to lead the fight. At this point after 40 damn years it’s a loser idea. No one is going to just flip a switch and make it happen overnight.
Or over 40 years. So quit with the Medicare for All crap and come up with something that most Americans can understand and something that can actually pass Congress.
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I moved from NY state 2yrs ago. As freelancers, who eeked by in that $$ city my husband and I each had to pay $750/mo on insurance out of pocket. we joined the “freelancers union” to get their “deal” which was better than buying on the open market at like 1000/mo or like COBRA rates which are bonkers. then NY allowed medicaid expansion for those who qualified. we qualified by the skin of our teeth and paid $20/mo each… as opposed to basically paying the same as our “rent controlled” rent in insurance costs that we could barely use. and it was good insurance! it covered what we needed. when I got pregnant we both started having FREE insurance. and that was the best insurance I’ve ever had in my life (except for the fact that they were constantly asking me how much money i made, which is impossible to answer as a freelancer and gave me literal hives). they literally said, “if you get a bill, it means someone did your paperwork wrong. tell us and we’ll make sure it gets taken care of” so at least that’s how it worked for us. In texas you need to make less than $3600/yr AND be pregnant to qualify for the level of coverage i got, and have no assets, and not live with someone with assets. which is a catch 22. You can’t live on that, you can’t live like that. and if you were living like that you couldn’t apply.
The issue is valid. The solution that Sanders proposes is not. Our system has to be better but Sanders and his Squad just can’t sell it. We need a better appoach.
did you prefer the “medicare for all who want it” approach that Guttierez had?
John Coby, there is some hyperbole in this question, however, what is the closest thing to a perfect system of health care in your opinion?
I think a single payer system would do just fine but….that isn’t my point. No one can make this happen. And those who yell and scream for “Medicare for all” dont know what they are talking about and won’t work to make it happen
This comes as no surprise.