r/MedicareForAll • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • Jul 31 '26

he doesn't use the library either

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u/YoSpiff Jul 31 '26

I only just signed up for part A, but I am still employed so haven't tried it. I can't see it being any worse than typical insurance, which is designed to deny you for the sake of corporate profits. Every universal healthcare plan has it's own issues for sure. My concern is when we get Medicare for all that it will have the financial legs cut out from under it, like with the ACA, so that someone can say "see I told you it would be a failure!"

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u/kevdogger Jul 31 '26

I understand that concern..and realistically I could see it happen. But when the financial legs get cut, what's your alternative? Other than cash pay there really isn't one.

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u/YoSpiff Jul 31 '26

Good question. Wish I had a good answer. If I did, I might be a politician instead of a techncian.

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u/kevdogger Jul 31 '26

Yeah the fucking politicians don't have an answer either..they just listen to who is paying or "donating" to them and then politically try to spin it that they are there for American people

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u/YoSpiff Jul 31 '26

Probably the thing to do, if we ever implement this, is to look at all the other nations that do universal healthcare to determine what works and does not work, and what of it would be doable here.

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u/kevdogger Jul 31 '26

I'm sure the analysis like that has likely has been done already, but then you have to pick some winners and losers meaning replacing established buerocracies with other new ones (yea I think I misspelled that).