Why is calling universal healthcare often called medicare for all?
Are the two different, if so, how?
And could Universal Healthcare cut corporations out of decisions between patients and doctors?
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How Universal Healthcare Could Cut Corporations Out Of Medicare
Will, Thom. It will.
Yeah well Cortez already stated to fund universal healthcare you have to RIASE taxes I already pay over 100 a week for federal theft I dont need to be robbed anymore!
Mike Bolin
It will decrease of your health care costs ! Additionally, it will give a boost to the economy with a healthier workforce , freeing up monies from businesses .
But you won’t have to pay any medical insurance, copays, prescription costs, etc etc etc.
You will keep more of your income because you are not getting ripped off !
The robbery occurs when the morbidly rich get tax cuts. Stop watching Fox it is bad for your health Mike.
I’m retired and pay way more than that, quit complaining
The US needs a national funded publicly run health system as all other industrialized countries do!
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Hartmann don’t have clue
I live in the UK NHS !
Hartman is right !
Muricans are very very stupid !
They defend the predators who are eating them alive !
Really? Perhaps you could expend on your thought and give others a chance to debate.
UHC is good for EMPLOYERS, not good for Hedge Funds.
Universal Healthcare could save companies big and small a fortune if we have Medicare for all.
will they still need me, will they still feed me, when I’m sixtyfour. ’70s in Liverpool at the height of the oil crissis and fourday week and 20% inflation and 20% unemployment, one could actually go on pension at age fifty. and as it turns out, yours truely was born in ’55 and have early danish state pension since age fiftyfive years old. One is encouraged to buy extra insurance to take the edge off of the drop in pay, going onto flat state pension at age sixtyseven, i think it is now
Comparing here and there to some now and then, is a friggin jungle and i suppose i am lucky to live in a place were some ould friends are neighbours and one was an accountant and keeps upto date with all the changing rules and regulations. Only cost be a bag of beers to get him talking, if i ignore all the talk about his kids and ex wife, well actually his oldest lives upstairs, maybe i could save on the beers and trade gossip, which seems to be the real currency of the age
’88 Thom Hartmann was in China, early ’80s I was two years in ausstralia. I remember my first day upstairs in an english bedford double decker bus and two headscarfed scotish accented middle aged yapping housewifes, going to see their doctors, down the Swan river at Freemantle. ” and wait until I tell ye, my doctor says this and my doctor says that ” and a younger healther me , think, doctors differ and patients die.
To say ‘productivity’ has increaced by such and such percent over such and such time, and wages are such and such. It is all self justifying gibberisch. Some evil ‘they’ have the long end of the stick, and they are not giving it back. If I want something out of the system, believe me i don’t look to the city tax office. ye do have welfare entitlement
As a rule of thumb, aske three times, chances are they will only refuse ye twice. Whatever bull shite social contract ye think the public have with the powers that be, count it as dead wood. rotten gone disintigrated. Now like some silly poem. run yer mile, if you can take your loss, in a game of pitch and toss, and carry on, then you are a fool my son. The fake mentality of these Rudard Kiplings has seeped into the anglo culture, the culture we are told are western values. I laugh my arse off and local state representative nonsence.
We have to put retirement age up because there are too many foreigners no on the local workmarket. They must be intergrated into our way of life. Some of it is so outragious one can only think they eighter don’t really wish to hold public office or they simply don’t want anybody to vote for anything at all
@Norman Keena, I remember the early 1970’s very clearly and, to be honest with you, it was a three-day week and not a four-day one as you mentioned! In fact I worked a normal five-day week and the reason for this was because I was a civil servant working at the Department of Employment at the time ( it’s now known as the Department of Work and Pensions ) and I even remember working overtime to keep up with the layoffs of workers – I remember being paid accordingly so I actually profited from those layoffs!
I remember the ordinary working people who’d been laid off due to the strikes queuing up to get their payments at the office where I worked in Irlam, Greater Manchester – it seemed to me at the time that we were the only ones that were actually in employment! I realise that this makes me sound like I was profiteering off the backs of others but it was part of my job and I had no say in the political situation that was created by the then Tory Government and their fights with the trade unions! We simply had to pay out the ‘dole’ money to those who qualified for it so that they and their families didn’t starve!
This situation didn’t change the fact that we had to suffer through electricity supply cuts on a daily basis in our private lives and when we were at home and it was a complete mess until the end of the miners’ strike in 1972!
Medicare for all should mean the same health care for the rich and the government as it does for the rest of Americans.
Yes! Watch how exceptionally good “Single payer Medicare For All” gets when the rich and government officials have to use that system also! Wow.
How many more years are you Americans going to continue to debate and discuss this topic? You’ve been discussing this for YEARS and still you haven’t managed to sort out your pathetic and outrageously overpriced PRIVATE healthcare system, have you? Meanwhile a lot of people in the U.S. are DYING because they can’t afford to pay PRIVATE medical insurance premiums or for their prescriptions, can they?
I’m just ecstatic that I live in the U.K. where our N.H.S. is FREE at the point of delivery to EVERYONE who needs it and we don’t have to endlessly debate whether or not it works – it has done for the past SEVENTY years and is considered to be amongst one of the best healthcare systems in the world whereas yours is one of the WORST in the developed world, isn’t it?
Happy 70th Birthday N.H.S. and long may you continue!! 😉
Medicare for all single payer would also save $ for employer’s Large & small as they wouldn’t have to provide healthcare to the employees. With Bernie s plan everyone’s covered plus there would be coverage for dental and vision too. its more efficient than the current system which is for profit insurance companies & big pharma.
Profit should never be a part of keeping people healthy or safe. We’ve taken profit out of fire departments and policing. It should be taken out of medicine too.
Ex Presidents live into their 90s the rest of us our average life span is 78 and going down.
Yes, if you’re not disabled.
Many disabled people do well indeed to get past sixty.
Yes! Watch how exceptionally good “Single payer Medicare For All” gets when the rich and government officials have to use that same system also! Added benefit is we are not responsible to pay their high end upscale insurance policies, while we get something very different. Wow.
Because people are ill informed, they believe anything they hear like Free Trade. Even though it cost them everything.