As Dr. Oz Helps Prove ‘There Is No Republican Health Care Plan,’ Democrats Have Solution Most Refuse to Embrace: Medicare for All
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As Dr. Oz Helps Prove ‘There Is No Republican Health Care Plan,’ Democrats Have Solution Most Refuse to Embrace: Medicare for All
Source: Murky-Site7468
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I still can’t fathom that why GOP is always against working class people.
Blame politicians all you want but it’s the VOTERS who don’t want Medicare for All. We do not vote consistently for those candidates who campaign for it.
And even when baby steps are taken, like the ACA (Obamacare), the very next midterm, we voted in republicans who controlled the House and Senate and reduced it to whatever it is now.
This is 100% on us, the voters.
Federalize all health insurance companies
Fire all the executives
Roll the rest up into the Medicare program
Enroll all US citizens in Medicare
Profit-seeking in healthcare is EVIL, and this is all private insurance and private hospitals do.
“tHaT wOuLd Be ComMmUnIsM!?!”
As a humanitarian capitalist and social libertarian. For Universal Healthcare. We have to learn from other nations. Also, to roll out universal healthcare could take a decade to do so. Not impossible but possible.
* In that 10 year span need a bipartisan plan to work on lowering healthcare cost.
* Roll out flat rate for all generic medications.
* Lessen years medications from 20 years to 12 years.
* Implement flat progressive income tax rate.
* End social security income tax cap.
* End Physician resident cap.
* Reverse Department of Education policy on professional degrees.
* Implement taxes cover public preschool and community college tuition fees.
* Body percentage fat tax.
* VAT tax.
* Import and tariff tax.
* Universal healthcare for those that need emergency surgery, emergency transplants, oncology care, prenatal & postnatal care, mental health care at non-profit facilities, and for children six and under.
* Carbon tax.
* Excise tax on corporations not headquartered in the US.
* Tax on unrecognized gains over $25 Million.
* 0.25% financial transaction tax.
* Flat percentage of income tax return.
* Tax capital gains same as income tax.
* End marriage tax bracket.
* Focus on making food healthier in the US less chemicals and processed.
* Support CRISPR, domestic agriculture, and GMOs.
* Support free lunch for all public schools in the US by 2030.
* Support tax credits and tax prebates for those not receiving TANF or SNAP.
* WIC for all.
* Expand childcare subsidies.
* Those with a DCFSA, FSA, or HSA have a rebate of $2,500 a year from the Government.
* $10,000 tax voucher that can be used to pay medical debt for those with a tax ID.
* Healthy American Presidential Challenge for all age groups. Receive extra $2,500 on tax refunds if able to complete the goals for the year. $1,000 cash reward that children can use on an online shop run by the government to buy various toys and electronics. Also, can put that money to a national tuition savings account for future education endeavors.
This was the last straw for me. I usually voted Republican. No longer. I’m now on board with Bernie, AOC, etc. The health insurance system will collapse, it’s just a matter of time. Bernie is right, Medicare for All is the only correct answer.
They should at least open Medicare to anyone 50 and above. That should reduce the cost of insurance for people below 50 in the private insurance market.
I’ve seen a lot of mentions of HSAs recently. My experience with an HSA was entirely negative. Maybe 20 years ago, my employer offered the option of putting money into an HSA of their choice. Being very healthy, that seemed like a good option so I did for some period of time. Years later I was curious how much money was in my HSA so I did some digging. It was all gone! The entire account was drained by fees!
Someone who will never appear in American media: I know how to put 17 trillion dollars in working Americans’ pockets over the next 10 years.
Media: How?
Said person: Medicare for all.
Screen quickly irises to black.
There is a Republican healthcare plan. Assuming that “go fuck yourself” counts as a plan.
This is why I’m fine ending the shutdown and you should be too. They own this and hurting regular people was never going to lead to anything other than hurting people.
If they ever enact Medicare for all, they really need to name it the Official Benefit Assuring Medical Access care Act (or the OBAMAcare Act for short).
Just to make Republican heads explode.
Medicare for all means tax-payer funded healthcare. Each of us becomes a contributor to the cost of the medical care of each other. Are you willing to support abolishing certain lifestyle-related behaviors that are known to be detrimental to health in order to have Medicare for All?
Let me give a couple of examples. Under a Medicare for All system, I would ban all tobacco products, all of them, to reduce the incidence of smoking-related heart, lung diseases and cancers. Get rid of tobacco, and you can greatly reduce the cost burden on our healthcare system. Especially one funded by taxpayer dollars. Next? Sugar. Too much sugar in everything has contributed to the explosion in Type 2 diabetes (aka insulin resistance). No more Capt’n Crunch and Sugar Pops. That is shit, nutritionally speaking. The sugar lobby is way too powerful. It has to go. But our healthcare costs would go down.
Part of my point is that Medicare for All without behavior modifications that try to pivot 330 million Americans off the Standard American Diet and other bad habits will fail because the costs will get out of control. A well-formulated Medicare for All plan would include these behavior modification efforts that will, undoubtedly, take multiple generations. But it would get there. A healthier American population is the best way to keep healthcare costs down and make Medicare for All a reality.
It needs to be a medicaid for all program, not medicare. Medicare isn’t much better then the insurance program currently, ask the seniors currently on it. Medicaid is the answer. Set amount, based on income and number of family members. No co-pays, no deductible. Medical, dental, vision. Percent of income.
Democrats should seriously just name their healthcare bill
Trump’s
Republican
Universal
Medicare
Plan
Then just get some paid off Republican to introduce the bill, say it’s bipartisan and watch as Trump demands everyone gets on board. Democrats should even resist it a little to make it seem like it’s not their idea.
By “most” you mean the insurance/drug companies, the investors in those companies, and the corporate politicians who have been bought and paid for by those moneyed interests….so the only opinions that matter apparently.
Progressives, NOT “Democrats”.