Would medicare for all be a good next step to push for?
Are any progressive politicians putting forth a viable plan for getting us closer to universal healthcare?
It’s not the worst next step, but Medicare is far from a perfect system.
Just the question of what’s covered can sometimes be almost as complex as tax code. It also carries a 20% coinsurance, which for big ticket stuff can still bankrupt you in a hurry. And there’s a big push towards privatization/contracting out the administration to the big companies.
The one thing Medicare does well is that it covers everyone. Hit 65 years old and you’re in. It’s an entitlement. There’s a lot to be said for establishing a standard of health care coverage as an entitlement (veeeery loosely translated as “human right”) no matter what age.
american healthcare will continue to suck as long as politicians are friends of instead enemies of private health insurance. as long as both parties are on payroll of big insurance we’re all getting screwed
It was so disheartening that the ACA just funneled billions more to insurance companies, only it was taxpayer money.
It would be like trying to fix broadband internet by forcing everyone to have a Comcast plan, and using taxpayer dollars to pay for those plans.
And still letting Comcast set the prices
The ACA was always meant to be step one.
It was never the fix. It was the groundwork to start getting to the fix.
Politics is the art of the possible, and there’s no fucking way this country votes to go single-payer government run in one step.
What was meant to be step 2?
Medicaid expansion. The R-controlled states shit on that pretty quickly.
Would medicare for all be a good next step to push for? Are any progressive politicians putting forth a viable plan for getting us closer to universal healthcare?
It’s not the worst next step, but Medicare is far from a perfect system.
Just the question of what’s covered can sometimes be almost as complex as tax code. It also carries a 20% coinsurance, which for big ticket stuff can still bankrupt you in a hurry. And there’s a big push towards privatization/contracting out the administration to the big companies.
The one thing Medicare does well is that it covers everyone. Hit 65 years old and you’re in. It’s an entitlement. There’s a lot to be said for establishing a standard of health care coverage as an entitlement (veeeery loosely translated as “human right”) no matter what age.
american healthcare will continue to suck as long as politicians are friends of instead enemies of private health insurance. as long as both parties are on payroll of big insurance we’re all getting screwed