Sunday, September 17, 2017

Dennis J Bernstein — The Push for a Medicare-for-All Plan

Sen. Bernie Sanders has unveiled a new single-payer healthcare plan which would provide all Americans with government-sponsored health coverage. Sanders’s plan, supported by some 16 Democrats in the Senate, calls for an overhaul of the healthcare system with what would essentially be a tweaked and revitalized version of Medicare-for-all.
“Today we say that a function of a rational healthcare system is to provide quality care to all in a cost-effective way,” declared Sanders, an independent from Vermont, “and not to continue a system which allows insurance companies and drug companies to make hundreds of billions in profits each year and makes healthcare industry CEO’s extremely wealthy.”
Flanked by supporting senators in making his Wednesday announcement, Sanders also noted that a Medicare-for-all program would end “the complexity of a system which adds enormous stress at a time when people need it the least.”...
Consortium News
The Push for a Medicare-for-All Plan
Dennis J Bernstein

4 comments:

NeilW said...

Time for the US to join the 21st century.

The rest of the developed world had this resolved decades ago. We all find it astonishing that the US can't get this sorted, when they have a pretty good example of a working system next door in Canada.

So is it cultural, or is that republican federal system just not up to the job any more and the country has become too large a democracy to get anything done. Much like India.

Matt Franko said...

" which allows insurance companies and drug companies to make hundreds of billions in profits each year "

The entire global earnings of the sp500 is only about $1T what is his moron even talking about....

This is embarrassing....

Noah Way said...

What's embarrassing is your straw man attack. Pfizer's 2011 profit after taxes was > $10b. That's just one corporation, and it's not even the largest.

Matt Franko said...

ALL of healthcare only contributes 15%

https://us.spindices.com/documents/additional-material/sp-500-eps-est.xlsx

And this is GLOBAL....