I need to shout this from the roof tops every time I see a Medicare-for-all story. Medicare isn’t cheap. Cheaper than regular insurance? Yes. But we should be demanding healthcare as a right, paid for by the taxes we already pay and the taxes rich people and corporations SHOULD be paying. Zero cost, not more affordable.
True universal healthcare subjugates pharma companies and large medical providers, allowing for price controls, eventually eliminating market elements that provide healthcare for profit (commodification of human health and life is a violation of human rights).
Complete nationalization ensures public funding is put into research, development and medical education where it is needed most. Instead of pharma companies trying to develop and market new opioids, dick pills and happy pills to dope people into compliance with capitalism-induced misery, that funding can instead be driven towards finding cures for cancer, figuring out the looming threat of widespread antibiotic resistance, etc.
Doctors can be provided free medical education if they show sufficient aptitude, and we can go through with tort reform to protect medical practitioners from high liability costs. If doctors no longer have to pay back insane student loans and malpractice insurance costs, then we don’t need to pay them so much anymore, further cutting back costs.
Other countries show us how little money medical professionals will provide service for. Many doctors don’t do it for the pay - they do it because they get to be doctors… The for-profit healthcare system creates a bourgeois class of medical professionals.
we should be demanding healthcare as a right, paid for by the taxes we already pay and the taxes rich people and corporations SHOULD be paying. Zero cost, not more affordable.
That’s basically what M4A is: single payer (AKA paid for via taxes) free at point of service healthcare for everyone.
It’s not the CURRENT Medicare system for everyone, as you seem to think.
I need to shout this from the roof tops every time I see a Medicare-for-all story. Medicare isn’t cheap. Cheaper than regular insurance? Yes. But we should be demanding healthcare as a right, paid for by the taxes we already pay and the taxes rich people and corporations SHOULD be paying. Zero cost, not more affordable.
True universal healthcare subjugates pharma companies and large medical providers, allowing for price controls, eventually eliminating market elements that provide healthcare for profit (commodification of human health and life is a violation of human rights).
Complete nationalization ensures public funding is put into research, development and medical education where it is needed most. Instead of pharma companies trying to develop and market new opioids, dick pills and happy pills to dope people into compliance with capitalism-induced misery, that funding can instead be driven towards finding cures for cancer, figuring out the looming threat of widespread antibiotic resistance, etc.
Doctors can be provided free medical education if they show sufficient aptitude, and we can go through with tort reform to protect medical practitioners from high liability costs. If doctors no longer have to pay back insane student loans and malpractice insurance costs, then we don’t need to pay them so much anymore, further cutting back costs.
Other countries show us how little money medical professionals will provide service for. Many doctors don’t do it for the pay - they do it because they get to be doctors… The for-profit healthcare system creates a bourgeois class of medical professionals.
Under the current system, no.
That’s basically what M4A is: single payer (AKA paid for via taxes) free at point of service healthcare for everyone.
It’s not the CURRENT Medicare system for everyone, as you seem to think.