You don’t want ‘Medicare for all’
Read this and think before you vote: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/04/01/britains-version-of-medicare-for-all-is-collapsing/
One country's implementation. Remember that every western country has universal healthcare. Only the US doesn't. This is stupid fear mongering. Now let's compare to the completely dysfunctional US system where people go bankrupt for getting cancer, drug prices are unregulated and often cost multiples higher than other countries, and a single visit to the ER results in a several thousand dollar bill. Cmon. Think it's that fabulous here?
The fix needed is in reducing cost of drugs, treatment, and medical staff's ongoing training and eliminate insurance of any kind. That would bring down costs well below insurance premiums or tax. Disallow marketing, advertising, and soliciting by medical and pharmaceutical industry. That would go a long way and eliminate the middleman. (Edited: + eliminate insurance explicitly stated)
The number of people leaving the US for treatment exceeds the number of people incoming by a factor of 10. It's a myth that our health care is so much better than anyone else's. There are some select areas where the US is genuinely in the lead but when we can't even provide the basics to tens of millions of people, I don't think we have that much to brag about. Every other major industrialized nation pays less, covers more, and has outcomes that are just as good.
Health care is a service, not a right.
That's an opinion, not a fact. But even if you think that, you still should be for massive change, since we're spending so much more and getting so much less than the others like us. Health care was considered a "crisis" when it consumed 12% of our GDP 40 years ago. Well now it's nearly 18% and projected to climb to over 20%. That's not sustainable.
The government has no incentive to provide efficient, customer-friendly services.
Neither do insurance companies.
Sure they do - going to a different insurance company.
You’re going to lose all your hard earned TC when you have a serious encounter with illness later in life, or you have to support someone else who does in the US
America spends more on primary education per student than most OECD countries and yet the kids here still lag behind. You don't have to look across the atlantic to see that Medicare for All is going to be a cash filled dumpster fire 😂
Overseas solutions don’t scale.
Actually Medicare is anything but a "cash filled dumpster fire," given that it out-performs the private alternatives. There is no reason to believe that Medicare for All would be any different. And yes, of course, the universal solutions scale. Duh.
I am very glad I was diagnosed with cancer and treated when I was working in Mexico, I'd be terribly afraid of the cost of that had happened after I started working in the US. I think, good private hospitals in Mexico are not only cheaper but provide better care than average hospitals in the US and private insurance is more accessible.
But you don’t know how it would have turned out in the US to compare.
That's true, but the fact that I'm terrified of the expenses for what I do have lived of the healthcare experience in the US (even though I have access to a better insurance and paycheck than the average american has), speaks by itself. Don't you think?
What will all these other countries do when Americans stop subsidizing their medical care? It’s like airplane tickets, the full fare passengers subsidize the discount fares. If all that was offered was the discount fare, the flight wouldn’t be profitable and would get cancelled.
As prices are set today in healthcare, considering all stakeholders, US would go straight into bankruptcy in 6 months if they where to enact universal healthcare. Consider that US everything is for huge profit, all those stakeholders would milk the taxpayers to the last cent. Until the relationship between taxpayers and corporations don’t change I would implement it. Change the rules of the game than we should reconsider
Britain doesn't have "Medicare for All." They have National Health Care. There's a difference. Also, the conservative government has been starving it of resources, so of course there have been problems. Claims that it's "collapsing," though, are bullshit.
Starving of resources can never happen at any other time or place why?
Now if I had actually said something like that, you might have a point. I didn't. And you dont.