Paying hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of paying thousands in deductibles that does not cover prescriptions makes no sense

[Razoo]

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Taxpayers and such,

When I waitressed, I had to pay hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of paying thousands in deductibles each year for insurance that didn’t really cover prescriptions.

It was cheaper and the best option financially to just go uninsured and pray nothing happened.
I remember vividly one day, I decided to walk around and ask everyone I worked with – waiters, bussers, cooks – what insurance they had. Everyone had the same answer: none.

It made more sense for us to save up the money we’d otherwise pay on premiums and spend it on actual medicine and care.

That’s one reason why I support Medicare for All.

To this day, I work so my campaign staff is better insured than I am. But as an employer, I hate that their healthcare is tied to employment. When people get debilitating diagnoses, why does our system force us to stress about care ending with employment rather than getting better?

If we had a universal system, the huge sums employers pay for insurance could go into employees’ pockets in other forms (like raises). The answer can’t continue to be subsidizing the Affordable Care Act more and more as premiums go up and up.

The answer is single payer healthcare: Medicare for All.

Having to choose between bankruptcy or your life is a choice that people shouldn't have to face.

 

[Razoo]

Reasons Americans Need Single-Payer

With a system that is highly dependent on employer-based, for-profit health insurance, millions of Americans have no or inadequate coverage. The patchwork of expensive, unequal insurance plans has contributed to bankruptcy, homelessness, preventable disease, and death.

Inflated insurance and health care costs place unfair demands on businesses and taxpayers. By making high-quality health care for all as cost-effective as possible, a single-payer system meets the health needs of the public and contributes to a healthy economy.

Top 10 reasons to support single-payer on Medicare’s birthday - CitizenVox

To celebrate Medicare’s anniversary, I thought I would share my top 10 reasons, out of literally thousands of others, to support a single-payer health care system: 10. Under single-payer, say goodbye to medical bankruptcies in the United States. According to Physicians for a National Health...

citizenvox.org

Why We Need Single Payer | Health Care for All - California

More States Are Proposing Single-Payer Health Care. Why Aren’t They Succeeding?

The Democratic presidential primary might feel like a lifetime ago, but one important storyline in that race was health care — specifically single-payer health …

fivethirtyeight.com

 

[Craig234]

I'm not sure that's the party message of the day as Obama goes back to the White House to celebrate the ACA.

 

[Razoo]

Obamacare is not the answer ....... too expensive = not enough has changed.

 

[Razoo]

Paying hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of paying thousands in deductibles that does not cover prescriptions makes no sense......this system has not made sense for 75 years.​

It's all about draining wallets ......

 

[HIP56948]

I get tired of putting up stuff like this but the truth is, I wish it were not true.
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(CNN)...The US once again ranked last in access to health care, equity and outcomes among high-income countries, despite spending a far greater share of its economy on health care, a new report released Wednesday has found.
The nation has landed in the basement in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has conducted since 2004. The US is the only one of the 11 countries surveyed not to have universal health insurance coverage.

 

[Ginger Ale]

Obamacare is not the answer ....... too expensive = not enough has changed.

I agree. We need the public option he said was coming. I haven't heard a peep about it for a while. It's a shame, well over the majority of people in America want a public option that's cheaper and drug prices regulated.

 

[Helix]

We're decades away from real single payer, IMO.

 

[Razoo]

I agree. We need the public option he said was coming. I haven't heard a peep about it for a while. It's a shame, well over the majority of people in America want a public option that's cheaper and drug prices regulated.

the option was politically rhetoric IMO. More than 70% in this country want Single Payer not attached to the insurance industry.

It's hard to understand why elected officials do not pay attention to we the taxpayers. Of course they make it sound as if it is cost prohibitive yet there is always plenty of tax dollars available for war, the MIC and subsidies for wealthy for profit corporations.

I say it is time to call them out and reorganize tax dollar spending that covers single payer. Of course that means special interest funding of elections will need to take a hike. On the other hand there is likely enough
corruption elsewhere to keep politicians happy........ I would not approve.

 

[Razoo]

This is still true:

When I waitressed, I had to pay hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of paying thousands in deductibles each year for insurance that didn’t really cover prescriptions.

'It was cheaper and the best option financially to just go uninsured and pray nothing happened.
I remember vividly one day, I decided to walk around and ask everyone I worked with – waiters, bussers, cooks – what insurance they had. Everyone had the same answer: none.

It made more sense for us to save up the money we’d otherwise pay on premiums and spend it on actual medicine and care." From the AOC above.

 

[Chillfolks]

We're decades away from real single payer, IMO.

I agree, there is a lot of political mileage and money left in still only talking about a solution.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Obamacare is not the answer ....... too expensive = not enough has changed.

HR 676 was definitely not the answer.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676

Which federal M4A bill do you support?