Michael Lighty speaks on Sanders' Medicare for All bill, the corporate-fueled war inside the Democratic Party, and the battle for American minds
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Medicare for All Divides Democrats but Might Unite the Nation
I am for guaranteed medical care for those whom can’t afford it. I am also for a basic income for those who earn less than $100,000. Warren Buffett doesn’t need either one nor should he recieve it. He can buy an insurance company.
Who is paying you the $100,000?
Where does that come from?
Quantum Easement? … SDR’s? … Electronic digits?
+Will224000 Quantitative easing has absolutely nothing to do with this.
medicare will be privatized and this will subsidize the private insurance companies just like Obamacare. Bush tried to privatize it in 2004.
It’s hilarious they’re talking about how much everyone loves their insurance company. Like, have they ever talked to a real person?
There are good reasons no one likes the insurance companies. They provide an absolutely essential service, at least for people who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. Yet their profit is derived from making healthcare more expensive.
Health insurance companies have wildly distorted costs, because none of them control enough market share to control costs, and probably more importantly, they have little incentive to try to control costs because in aggregate, the more expensive healthcare costs are, the larger their profit margins.
Most people seem to agree there needs to be a public option for essential healthcare, so that insurance companies are no longer positioned to profit from providing essential services.
If people want to keep private insurance for any reason for non-essential service, it shouldn’t matter, but private insurance should not be subsidized or mandated like it is now under Obamacare. These plans to subsidize insurance are terrible.
Dumbest political strategy ever – who loves their health insurance company? Bernie had a great answer tonight at the Fox town hall on “what about people who like their employer provided plan?” Bernie pointed out that (a) you could lose or quit your job and end up with other insurance and (b) your employer could switch to another insurance provider and put the doctors you prefer out of network. He said with Medicare for all, all doctors and hospitals are in network, so you go where you want; that makes it more stable than employer provided health insurance.
+Don P Yeah, people love not being afraid of going deeply into debt or bankrupt from an unexpected medical emergency. No one loves insurance companies.
I’m watching that town hall now. It’s great. Thanks for mentioning it.
It turns out that we actually can have nice things. – #MMT
AmeriCare: Better-than-Medicare… for all! #EverybodyIn #NobodyOut #UniversalHealthCoverage
That could happen if govt stops all the expensive wasteful warmongering that benefits the big donor class (the pimps that buy the political prostitutes) …
Who’s brave enough to fight the greedy insurance companies and the military industrial complex❓
Doug Grinbergs We can’t do THAT! We need a whole Air Force of $200 million dollar airplanes.
It is a right. Any sound mind can see. Only the greedy want to perpetuate this dysfunctional system we currently are forced to follow. The layers upon layers of corporate paper-pushers dodging all manner of payment for profit. They are not needed. Eliminate them and give people care. The time has come.
Also, healthcare should never be tied to the corporations… it’s too confining for people’s job mobility.
People must demand that…
The people that run student loans,the feds and have ran students into debt the last 10-12 years,are now being encouraged,by people like you,encouraged to run the nations healthcare,I live in the worlds dumbest country,this has to be out there,how do you people not know this,or are you that dumb,let the feds run it good idea
KELLI2L2 Agreed. We are too mobile as a society these days to tie insurance to corporations.
+Omerta4204 ~ It’s so much better to let the greedy 4-Profit corporations run everything… NOT
+KELLI2L2 they don’t “run everything” if that were actually true,do you think you would still have rights?,no you wouldn’t,people run everything,I do,you do,its called choices,make betrer ones,and stop blaiming everyone else for your fucking issues,Take control of your own life,make better choices,its pretty simple,or give your money,your rights,your choices to those that cant even run a check book,if they did stuxents wouldn’t be 100s of thousands of dollars in debt,even then,they know yet still make that choice,make better choices,
Maga wants to shoot disease with a gun.
Libtards want to drain it in opiods and profit pharma
Bernie2020. its not rocketscience. just complex systems.
Who knows maybe US fire departments will start charging premiums like health care to pull people out of deadly fires?
Fireman:
“Excuse me, sir, do you have the premium?
Victim:
“I can’t reach my wallet.”
Fireman:
“Oh well, enjoy the after life, buddy.”
mm ix This actually happens here in the USA…some counties have a fee for fire department and if you don’t pay the fee the fire department won’t show up to your burning house!!!!!
+BeeFriendlyApiary Oh my and here I thought I was being facetious!
+mm ix No, he’s telling the truth and it’s a sad, sad truth.
Having spent years in the insurance industry, I can tell you that the insane patchwork of private plans complicates insurance claim analysis to the point where doctors offices spend half their time trying to fill out forms according to the zillion plans being sold, always trying to game it so they get paid for care. On the other side of that battle, those plans are devised to guarantee profit, not guarantee care. In the middle is the doctor and the patient. That’s messed up. M4A would greatly simplify billing for patients, for doctors, and for claims analysts. It would also *greatly* simplify the patchwork of government services trying to help a little here and and a littler there where the other services missed. Who needs private insurance *and* Medicaid *and* CHIP *and* so on, when one setup does it all?
The present system is crazy. Everybody is out to make maximum profit – the hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical industry. Healthcare should be a social issue not another for profit entity, end of discussion. Time to join the rest of advanced industrial countries which all view healthcare as a human right,
+Haley Brown My wife was a nurse in intensive care. A few years ago, before the tightening up on pain pills was begun, she would tell me of young people coming in the ICU with unbelievable amounts of narcotics prescribed by doctors running pill mills in town. She often said that she’d never even seen terminal cancer patients with that much medicine. Dirty pharmaceutical companies and dirty doctors out to make a dollar are largely responsible for the opioid hell we’re living in and almost 200/day are dying from. America has lost her way. She’s and addict and the drug is the dollar. Chasing the dollar at all costs and the cost will be the death of our country if greed isn’t brought under control. But how on Earth can it be brought under control? I do not know.
+88Gibson LesPaul Talking about high stress job – Intensive Care Nurse. These days hospitals are run by an army of well paid administrators, making all the decisions. Time to return to before 1980 when hospitals were staffed with only a handful of administrative positions but lots of healthcare workers. This is one contributing factor why hospital care in the US has becomes so expensive.
People are very confused, because they are very ignorant… Ignorance, about such simple issues, in the age of information, is a choice… People that choose to be ignorant, are very stupid… It ain’t no Rocket Science…
MITCH MCCONNEL MADE IT CLEAR,,,NO MEDICARE FOR AS LONG AS HE IS SENATE MAJORITY LEADER,,,HE IS GOING TO PROTECT INSURANCE COMPAINIES BILLIONS IN PROFITS AND HE HAS SUPPORT FROM RAND PAUL,RICK SCOTT,NANCY PELOSI AND CHUCK SHUMER.——THEY ALSO HAVE FOX NEWS PUSHING THEIR AGENDA——ITS AMAZING WHAT FOX NEWS AND THESE POLITICIANS WILL DO TO PROTECT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES BILLION DOLLARS PROFITS
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CNN / MSNBC push that same agenda very hard, too.
FOX NEWS HAS TAKEN THE LEAD IN FAKE NEWS,,SPREADING LIES TO STOP US FROM GETTING MEDICARE FOR ALL–THEY DONT WANT THE INSURANCE COMPANIES T0 LOOSE THEIR BILLION DOLLARS PROFITS
KENTUCKY IS THE BIGGEST REASON WE CANT GET MEDICARE FOR ALL—-THEY VOTED FOR THE BIGGEST ANTI MEDICARE FOR ALL SENATORS—MITCH MCCONNEL AND RAND PAUL.—THESE SENATORS WILL PROTECT INSURANCE BILLION DOLLARS PROFITS,INSTEAD OF HELPING US.
sandy gibson I completely agree. When Roosevelt wanted to pass the Social Security Act, Republicans labeled it socialism. When Lyndon Johnson was trying to pass the Medicare Bill back in the 60s, Republicans, especially the governor of California, Ronald Reagan, label it Socialism-Communism. Republicans do love to frighten their base.
I live in Germany and for us is beyond belief that THE reachest and advanced (?) country of the world does not offer all its citizens acces to healthcare!
Do not buy the “communism”- propaganda and go for it!
mihai grigoriu The Republcans know it isn’t Communism and so do the Democrats. Republicans are using ”Communism” to frighten the Republican base.
Same here, and you’re right.
But there are many proposal on Capitol Hill for Medicare for All. It’s not all the same thing. There are some plans that protect Medicaid waiver for people with disabilities. Bernie’s new bill adds those protections. I encourage you to deepen the analysis of this issue. You’re right it’s a critical issue but there are levels to it. And there are other proposals that don’t articulate these protections.
take the ball point pen from who is clicking it.
Medicare for All!
Bernie Sanders 2020!
Great interview.
Medicare is in place. People love it. The insurance companies still have things sell to Medicare recipients. Is Medicare isn’t perfect, ever hear of the donut hole,? It could be better but it works better than anything in place.
If Sanders ran as an Independent, he’d win. But he won’t get the Democratic Party nomination, the Corporate Democrats fun the party and they’ll screw him again.