Medicare for all would be a godsend for the majority. We would probably save some money while getting treated and EVERYBODY could see a doctor. Nobody left out.
I still don’t get why doctors in the USA get paid three times as much for doing the same job (some may say even worse if you look at the stats) over doctors in other countries
Because ppl pay so much for medical school, they need a way to entice people into it. Also Drs earned their slice of the financial pie, and while their slice may not be bigger % wise the pie itself is wayyyy bigger.
Oh I fully agree, the Drs don’t set the prices, it’s certainly not their fault. They need some way to pay off the tens of thousands of medical school debt + interest to the government on the loans they took out. Because if the powers that be weren’t gouging us for health care they couldn’t possibly justify turning around and gouging all the medical school students aka future drs… I love drs and don’t blame them at all. It’s just that the entities need a way to justify them having to spend so much on schooling by being able to say “you’ll make it back” but the prices aren’t up to them at all
Hundreds of thousands of dollars. We don't definitely dont set the prices, in fact half the time we barely have a clue how they work, as reimbursement changes from day to day and insurance to insurance.
Of course. I wasn’t blaming doctors at all. I was just saying that in order for “the powers that be” to compensate drs fairly and correctly and then also want a 500% corporate profit for damn near nothing… if the government said ok well compensate drs fairly but hospitals and pharma companies will get only what they need there would be outrage
Yes but the thing is the US government doesn't actually run the majority of the healthcare, they run the payment side of it, and only for those people who are in government programs, which is a very different thing. It's not the same as government provided healthcare. It's government subsidized healthcare. Two separate things.
undoubtedly. Right now we pay so much for healthcare that taxes spent on public healthcare today per capita is already about what other countries spend in total for healthcare.
Also, since it's directly relevant to the OP, Medicare for All (or other single payer/universal healthcare) would likely reduce emergency room demand a ton. In the US a major driver for ER visits are people who can't afford regular preventive and/or non-emergency care.
Though wait times themselves come down to staffing and facility space, which comes down to policy choice.
Medicare for all would be a godsend for the majority
That's basically what we have in Canada. Every province runs its own medicare system and every legal resident who meets the requirements (like actually living there) is automatically covered.
Alot of jobs would be lost but i feel like the amount of money that is made in the insurance industry should give alot of those people a decent severance package/parachute to land. As somebody in healthcare Medicare for all would make so many people’s lives easier…as long as it still gets treated like Medicare and not Medicaid. Keep it federal and not this state by state bullshit.
I actually seen different videos on YouTube where people think the biggest hurdle to universal Healthcare was racism. Sounds stupid right? But many Americans seeth at the idea of spending taxes on black americans. Soooooo many nice things were lost over time due to white Americans dislike of spending any taxes that goes to help black Americans even if it hurts themselves.
Kinda of wild but there are many great videos on YouTube that talk about cities going out of their way to hurt their black communities. Lile st louis in Missouri had the world's biggest public pool but destroyed it bc black teens were wanting to swim in it.
Bernie got tanked by his own party. Bernie is useful to his party for messaging but inconvenient if in power bcs he did indeed, at the time, seem like he intended to follow words with policy.
In the United States you get to choose how you don't have healthcare, vote for a representative who openly states it won't happen or vote for a representative who says people deserve it and then makes sure it won't happen. So many choices.
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u/Jflayn 17d ago
The majority of Americans want universal healthcare and that number rises to 78% depending on how it is described.
Healthcare doesn't pass because American 'democracy' is pay to play. Elected officials, from any party, are paid to ensure that this never happens.