The only way to get health care for all our citizens is a national health care system. Medicare for all us probably as good as any, although I have not studied all the different systems used in different countries. I believe the systems are somewhat different.
That is no guarantee that the health care would be good.
Russia/USSR has had a law entitling health care for all for about s hundred years. They have never funded the program. There are few doctors and hospitals and the care is very poor. Russia cannot afford to pay for the needed care.
My point is that passing a law and being able to provide the funds to provide the care are two different things.
Whatever we want to do, we have to be willing to raise taxes to pay for it or it will not be there.
Big Pharma won’t allow a fair system, I’m sure of that, chuq.
One problem is that Medicare gives doctors and hospitals a % of the bill and if they accept medicare they must accept that amount. It is far below the billed amount. Sure costs are cut but if providers cannot make a profit and have no money for reinvestment and expansion they will collapse and we will lose a huge amount of providers. Would you care to work at a mere subsistence level ? Would you care to operate a business that merely breaks even or loses money each year ? Once again this socialist solution destroys and eliminates the entrepreneurial class in our society which is the wealth generating class. Socialized medicine generates no wealth for the providers, wage earners, researchers and innovators. How can a system survive that doesn’t create wealth for capitalist system ? Socialized medicine gets its revenue through taxes but how could the taxes be paid if citizens have no wealth ? Medicare for all would also eliminate at least 5 million jobs. Without those salaries entering our economy other industry collapses creating a further downward spiral in employment . Our system today creates wealth in the hands of people. Eliminating the source of wealth eliminates the tax base which would sustain Medicare for all.
I do support the idea of universal health care as a right but have no idea how to pay for it. Half the nation pays no income tax and if pay roll deduction made they all get a full refund. So if their income level is so low they qualify for no income tax how will the same low income be enough to pay for more taxes for health care ? In addition those already on Medicare will have to have benefits availability decreased while paying increased monthly premiums for less service for the added cost of universal coverage for millions of new enrollees. They already have their social security taxed by IRS on top of that. The idea of the tax cuts it to create jobs and get people of the welfare rolls and on payrolls which increases revenue and balance out tax cuts. Now I don’t have the stats one way or another but that’s the theory anyway. Where will the millions of people that work for insurance companies and adjunct industry find new jobs if middleman ins co eliminated ?