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No Medicare Single Payer BECAUSE Many From All Sides Are Investors/Receive Campaign Money

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Improved Medicare Single Payer Insurance for All would provide real Health Insurance Reform!


The United States spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on
healthcare – $8160 per capita – yet performs poorly in comparison and leaves
over 46 million people without health coverage and millions more
inadequately covered.

Expanded and Improved Medicare for All is the solution.

- Easy to Implement: Medicare has been in existence since 1966, it provides
healthcare to those 65 and older, and satisfaction levels are high. The
structure is already in place and can be easily expanded to cover everyone.

- Simple: One entity – established by the government – would handle billing
and payment at a cost significantly lower than private insurance companies.
Private insurance companies spend about 31% of every healthcare dollar on
administration. Medicare now spends about 3%.

- Real Choice: An expanded and improved Medicare for All would provide
personal choice of doctors and other healthcare providers. While financing
would be public, providers would remain private. As with Medicare, you chose
your doctor, your hospital, and other healthcare providers.

- State and Local Tax Relief: Medicare for All would assume the costs of
healthcare delivery, thus relieving the states and local governments of the
cost of healthcare, including Medicaid, and as a result reduce State and
local tax burdens.

- Expanded coverage: Would cover all medically necessary healthcare
services – no more rationing by private insurance companies. There would be
no limits on coverage, no co-pays or deductibles, and services would include
not only primary and specialized care but also prescription drugs, dental,
vision, mental health services, and long-term care.

- Everyone In, Nobody Out: Everyone would be eligible and covered. No
longer would doctors ask what insurance you have before they treat you.

- No More Overpriced Private Health Insurance: Medicare for All would
eliminate the need for private health insurance companies who put profit
before healthcare, unfairly limit choice, restrict who gets coverage, and
force people into bankruptcy.

- Lower Costs: Most people will pay significantly less for healthcare.
Savings will be achieved in reduced administrative costs and in negotiated
prices for prescription drugs.
 
Provide 3 choices: Put this to a vote thus allowing patriotic citizens decide!

=== Retain ObamaCare insurance for those who are pleased with it or apprehensive to change.

=== Self financed health care allows the fiscally fit to opt out. Open this door.

=== Provide the opportunity of Single Payer Medicare for ALL = excellent coverage to many millions upon millions more.
OPEN this door. This coverage is no more free than ObamaCare however it does cost CONSIDERABLY less.
 
Improved Medicare-for-All—is the best cure for the American health care crisis because:

• It saves money and controls costs by replacing multiple public and pri- vate payers with a single national health insurance program. The national program will negotiate fees with providers, purchase drugs and medical supplies in bulk, and monitor budgets and capital plans for hospitals and other medical facilities.

• It minimizes risk, combining the whole US population into one large pool of over 300 million people.

• It eliminates private insurance. Private insurance eats up 30% of every dollar in profits, marketing and administration. Medicare operates on less than 5% overhead.
( This being said I BELIEVE Consumers should make this choice on their own)

• It simplifies health care. One program will cover all health issues for everyone.

• It guarantees quality care for all. No one can be denied care or forced to use an emergency room because s/he has no doctor or coverage.

( I SAY if we want to reduce the cost of local, state and federal governments this is one item that could help dramatically)
 
Those who Are Investors and/or Receive Campaign Money are increasing the cost of health care .....
 
Who are these "investors" who "receive" campaign money?

What are these "investors" investing in?

Who is paying these "investors" who are "receiving" money.

Where are those people paying the "investors" getting the money?

Inquiring minds want to know...
 
Razoo said:
Improved Medicare Single Payer Insurance for All would provide real Health Insurance Reform!


The United States spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on
healthcare – $8160 per capita – yet performs poorly in comparison and leaves
over 46 million people without health coverage and millions more
inadequately covered.

Expanded and Improved Medicare for All is the solution.

1) - Easy to Implement: Medicare has been in existence since 1966, it provides
healthcare to those 65 and older, and satisfaction levels are high. The
structure is already in place and can be easily expanded to cover everyone.

- Simple: One entity – established by the government – would handle billing
and payment at a cost significantly lower than private insurance companies.
Private insurance companies spend about 31% of every healthcare dollar on
administration. Medicare now spends about 3%.

- Real Choice: An expanded and improved Medicare for All would provide
personal choice of doctors and other healthcare providers. While financing
would be public, providers would remain private. As with Medicare, you chose
your doctor, your hospital, and other healthcare providers.

- State and Local Tax Relief: Medicare for All would assume the costs of
healthcare delivery, thus relieving the states and local governments of the
cost of healthcare, including Medicaid, and as a result reduce State and
local tax burdens.

2) - Expanded coverage: Would cover all medically necessary healthcare
services – no more rationing by private insurance companies. There would be
no limits on coverage, no co-pays or deductibles, and services would include
not only primary and specialized care but also prescription drugs, dental,
vision, mental health services, and long-term care.

- Everyone In, Nobody Out: Everyone would be eligible and covered. No
longer would doctors ask what insurance you have before they treat you.

- No More Overpriced Private Health Insurance: Medicare for All would
eliminate the need for private health insurance companies who put profit
before healthcare, unfairly limit choice, restrict who gets coverage, and
force people into bankruptcy.

- Lower Costs: Most people will pay significantly less for healthcare.
Savings will be achieved in reduced administrative costs and in negotiated
prices for prescription drugs.
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Do a simple thing and try to compute what it would cost to just expand Medicare (as described in #2 above) for the 50M people now covered by Medicare (in #1 above). Dropping the $1,600 anual premiums alone would cost about $80B and that does not include removing any other existing out-of-pocket costs for existing deductibles, supplemtantal insurance and/or co-pays.

Medical care providers can afford to treat their current (50M or about 15%) Medicre patients at reduced billing rates by charging more the for care given to the rest of their (privately insured) patients. That fact is not publicized enough and as the number of Medicare (for some) patients rises from about 50M now to about 80M by 2030 will drive up medical care costs (for the privately insured) even more.
 
Razoo said:
Improved Medicare-for-All—is the best cure for the American health care crisis because:

• It saves money and controls costs by replacing multiple public and pri- vate payers with a single national health insurance program. The national program will negotiate fees with providers, purchase drugs and medical supplies in bulk, and monitor budgets and capital plans for hospitals and other medical facilities.

• It minimizes risk, combining the whole US population into one large pool of over 300 million people.

• It eliminates private insurance. Private insurance eats up 30% of every dollar in profits, marketing and administration. Medicare operates on less than 5% overhead.
( This being said I BELIEVE Consumers should make this choice on their own)

• It simplifies health care. One program will cover all health issues for everyone.

• It guarantees quality care for all. No one can be denied care or forced to use an emergency room because s/he has no doctor or coverage.

( I SAY if we want to reduce the cost of local, state and federal governments this is one item that could help dramatically)
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Do you actually know anything about Medicare? Medicare is NOT free, you've been paying for it your whole career, AND you pay a charge for it every month. Medicare is NOT"health care", it is hospitalization with deductibles. If you want doctor visits covered, that's extra and you have to get it from a third party, a PRIVATE INSURER. It's the same with prescription drug insurance. What you're describing is NOT Medicare.
 
People don't support it because for the most part the government had done its best to run medicare off the tracks as well. Not that great of insurance. A lot of doctors restrict the number of patients, no out of pocket cap, surprise "We don't cover that so you have to pay the whole thing" charges.

If you want to have universal care, then advocate for universal care. I am fine with UHC. M4A--no damn way.
 
Razoo said:
Which is why this issue should be put to a vote due to the fact too many are accepting bribes in one form or another.....

YES, I WANT MY TAX DOLLARS TO PAY FOR INVESTING IN THE USA:


== Protecting Women’s Rights Across The Board - Women Get Out and Vote You Own The Ballot Boxes!

== Single-Payer Insurance Which saves $450 Billion Annually Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year | Democracy Now!
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Medicare for All is Universal Health Care both of which = Single Payer

Which could eliminate:

Medicare as we know it
Medicaid
Veterans Care aka VA ( Best care ever for vets)

And could reduce the cost of goods just about everywhere as no employers would be paying health care insurance

So it seems Medicare Single Payer aka Universal Health Care would be paying for itself.
 
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Drawdown said:
People don't support it because for the most part the government had done its best to run medicare off the tracks as well. Not that great of insurance. A lot of doctors restrict the number of patients, no out of pocket cap, surprise "We don't cover that so you have to pay the whole thing" charges.

If you want to have universal care, then advocate for universal care. I am fine with UHC. M4A--no damn way.
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Screw universal health care, it's a sucker's bet.
 
it's just me said:
Screw universal health care, it's a sucker's bet.
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I don't dismiss the idea based on past or present failures. Money is rather meaningless anyway. It becomes a matter of willingness. No more, no less.
 
Razoo said:
Improved Medicare-for-All—is the best cure for the American health care crisis because:

• It saves money and controls costs by replacing multiple public and pri- vate payers with a single national health insurance program. The national program will negotiate fees with providers, purchase drugs and medical supplies in bulk, and monitor budgets and capital plans for hospitals and other medical facilities.

• It minimizes risk, combining the whole US population into one large pool of over 300 million people.

• It eliminates private insurance. Private insurance eats up 30% of every dollar in profits, marketing and administration. Medicare operates on less than 5% overhead.
( This being said I BELIEVE Consumers should make this choice on their own)

• It simplifies health care. One program will cover all health issues for everyone.

• It guarantees quality care for all. No one can be denied care or forced to use an emergency room because s/he has no doctor or coverage.

( I SAY if we want to reduce the cost of local, state and federal governments this is one item that could help dramatically)
Click to expand...

Provide 3 choices: Put this to a vote thus allowing patriotic citizens decide!

=== Retain ObamaCare insurance for those who are pleased with it or apprehensive to change.

=== Self financed health care allows the fiscally fit to opt out. Open this door.

=== Provide the opportunity of Single Payer Medicare for ALL = excellent coverage to many millions upon millions more.
OPEN this door. This coverage is no more free than ObamaCare however it does cost CONSIDERABLY less.
 
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