Posted on 05/12/2022 8:55:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The United States has the most dysfunctional, inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive health care system in the world.
That’s not just what I believe. That’s what the American people know to be true. According to a March 2022 survey by Gallup and West Health, an estimated 93 percent of American adults feel what they pay for health care is not worth the cost. That poll also showed that 64 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the availability of affordable health care.
Today, according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), we now spend an unbelievable $12,530 per person for health care. Yes. $12,530 for every man, woman and child in this country.
Despite this huge expenditure, 30 million Americans have no insurance at all and 112 million struggle to pay for the health care they need.
Further, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs with nearly 1 out of 4 patients unable to fill the prescriptions their doctors write.
Despite spending more than twice as much on healthcare as the average developed country our health outcomes are worse than most. For example, our life expectancy is about 4.5 years lower than Germany’s and we have the highest infant mortality rate of almost any major country on earth.
While the current system is not working for ordinary Americans, it is working VERY well for insurance and drug companies and their CEOs.
Last year, the six largest health insurance companies in America made over $60 billion in profits, led by the UnitedHealth Group, which made $24 billion in 2021. The CEOs of 178 major health care companies collectively made $3.2 billion in total compensation in 2020 – up 31% from 2019.
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No, it isn’t
Medicare for all will be medical care for none.
This could easily be done. We need to cover the $2.3 trillion for medical care that is not currently paid by the government. A new 35% tax on all salaries will take care of it.
Not what you had in mind, Senator Sanders?
There’s a trick to Medicare....They deduct $170 a month out of my SS check...and that’s after paying into it for more than 50 years...How do you balance the newbies??
Actually it does work. Having been born and raised in German and worked there I know how is done.
So, let's make it worse!...................
No sugar daddies except the companies that process the Medicare claims. And the government bureaucrats who get payoffs and decide who will live and who will die.
But you go for it Bernie. As soon as you give up your gold plated Congressional health plan and go into Medicare...
Apparently, it’s also time for all school loans to be paid, abortions for free, renters get a pass and free baby formula for illegals only. I’m sure I missed a few freebies.
So let’s make it even more dysfunctional, inefficient, bureaucratic and expensive. Right.
Until medical services (I refuse to call it healthcare) return to a free market model, we will never make it more available, affordable or efficient.
What do you think Medicaid is??
Single payer was always their goal.
Public policy starts at home, Bernie. Sell a couple of those $1 million + houses that you and your wife own and hand the money over to your local hospital.
And all because of the government intrusion into the practice of medicine.
So we will cure it with more government intervention.
The average Medicare recipient receives three times more in benefits than they contributed to the system. Expanding the system won't change the math that much. Bernie wants socialized medicine.
The primary reason our health care system has issues is government involvement, IMHO. Medicare drives the health care system already.
For example: we all know far too well about hospital employees being fired for refusing a vaccine. They didn’t have much choice with a government mandate saying get all your employees vaccinated or get nothing from Medicare. Since the only health care facilities which don’t take Medicare are those run on a cash only basis, that’s just about everybody.
Medicare is government and therefore inefficient, wasteful, etc.
In the movie Idiocracy..maybe it was a documentary?..they had medical care lottery on the video machine in the hospital entrance.
ReEEeeEEE REEE RRREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Simple. Those who have already paid in the system will be forced to forfeit their hard earned money. They will do it and like it or be punished.(Translation:eliminated)
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