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Medicare for All is widely popular in the US. The insurance industry, hospitals, and employers who want leverage over workers buy off politicians to prevent it
by claudeganon 6y ago
Medicare for All is widely popular in the US. The insurance industry, hospitals, and employers who want leverage over workers buy off politicians to prevent it from happening.
- aceman22 6y agoJust my humble opinion, but it seems Medicare for all would only exacerbate the actual problem of medical costs being too high due to government subsidization. I'll take my down votes and go now...
- rattray 6y agoHN's guidelines discourage commenting on downvotes; you may wish to remove the last sentence. I will say that I recently had to deal with the medical system for a family member, and he was on decent private insurance. We actually would have received better care at a lower cost if he was on Medicare instead. N=1, of course. I'm pretty sure that Medicare has been shown to be a more effective negotiator than the private insurers and generally operates more efficiently, but I may be misremembering. Disclaimer that I don't support medicare for all myself, I'd much prefer a model closer to the NHS, with caveats (federal funding, county administration, state oversight).
- the_mitsuhiko 6y agoMedicare for all would create the largest insurance pool the US has seen. It makes absolutely no sense why that would raise the costs.
- azinman2 6y agoOr it would be if they hadn’t successfully tied it to political identity so much.
- BTCOG 6y agoMedicare is specifically only for elderly people, not all.
- chc 6y agoMedicare for All is a proposed law (S.1129 and H.R.1384) that expands Medicare to be a comprehensive single-payer system for all Americans. It has fairly high bipartisan support in polls, but relatively few (and only Democrat) supporters in Congress.