Professor Richard Wolff Shows How NYC's Medicare For All Could Save Tax Payers money as well as their lives.
New York City is set to unleash Medicare For All thanks to Bill De Blasio. Predictably critics want to know how much insuring New Yorkers would cost the city.
Economist and Co-Founder of Democracy at Work Richard Wolff illustrates, the economics of New York City's Medicare for all and lowering drug prices, proving that Medicare for All will not just save lives, but also save tax payer money, when compared to expensive emergency room visits,
Do you think Bill De Blasio's Medicare For All plan will work?
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“Socialist” Europe has better healthcare than the US and pays less for it!
Make America even more sick Again!
Just wait until Jeff Bezos (Amazon’s CEO) starts giving you medical care…
So go move there. I love people who talk about other places being better but they don’t go
@HOLLYBANANAS….. He’s right. I should know. I moved to Europe in 1981 and it is better. Anyone who’s ever been here loves it… (would rather stay)
+HOLYBANANAS1968 Why shouldn’t the USA have representative government instead? Why shouldn’t the legislators act on “our” behalf rather than allowing the corporations to gouge us? Surely you are not that dumb.
UK is one of least Socialist in EU, but healthcare is free, in England many scripts are free and in Northern Ireland all scripts are free.
Who is the
Where have these people been ?
Unless your dying the Emergency room will do nothing to help you
They will send you home with no insurance an tell you to go See a doctor, Drug prescription has gone up 6.4% this year in Cost, with skyrocketed insurance premiums an deductibles, skyrocketed inflation prices, Same Oppression of min fed wage for decades,
Crooked politicians and lying politicians in the pocket’s of health care industry and pharmakia industry with the Greedy Welfare billionaires Millionaires. Look at the VA health care system they let them die or fix the appointment book’s an some Vets waiting Over Ten years from injuries occurred in the Military for hearings for approval, or Vet’s living in the streets dying before they get Approved by the VA system from military injuries,
600,000 people will not be at the hospital, you are talking about facilities for an extra 5,000 people per year a mere 15 extra beds. Who could disagree with that. NYC should med4all for itself.
FYI Thom: This plan doesn’t cover dental.
Wow. I see how this works. Reagan passed a bill that Emergency Rooms can no longer refuse anyone that doesn’t have insurance but he also passed a bill to put medical bills on your credit report. Won’t be long before Humpty Trumpty decides to pass a bill that you can’t write medical bills off on a bankruptcy (just like federal student loans).
Libertarians are worse then Republicans in many ways.
Bad idea, it would create a high risk pool if done at the state or local level
Make the government a public utility again!
Good Information Thom… (Brilliant)… Richard Wolf always excellent!
Wolf is an idiot. He doesn’t even know the basics of how economics works.
still holding that cancer causing phone next to your head!!! for a professor your not to bright bro
I’m fairly certain that the “not to bright” professor can at least spell “too” properly. You misspelled “your” also, it should be you’re. One of you is not too bright, bro!!
Why don’t we enforce the Sherman Act which makes price gouging illegal.
Capitalism is finally running out of gas..the only thing that may save it is socialism..pretty amusing .
Supply-side economics is alive and well despite morons trying their damnedest to regulate companies out of business.
a libertarian or GOP dirtbag says turn away the poor at ERs ….until something happens and its them being turned away
Except that never happens. Doctors at hospitals are more concerned about making people better, not their ability to pay. If you walk into an ER you will be treated.
For someone with a doctorate, he knows nothing about economics. What a crock.