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claire lost senatorial election  folks stayed home for she was flawed canidate

The 10 Most Important Details in Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All Bill

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Ronald Reagan speaks out on Socialized Medicine - Audio

this 1961 antimedicare piece is still popular.  argument against universal health

care and medicare expansion uses some elements of this

United States National Health Care Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

United States National Health Care Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:



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The summary of the National Health Care Act includes the following elements, among others:^[10]

1. Expands the Medicare program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free (i.e. tax-funded) health care that includes all medically necessary care. This would include primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care.
2. Prohibits an institution from participating unless it is a public or nonprofit institution. Allows nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that deliver care in their own facilities to participate. On the whole, private insurances would be replaced with the new nationalized system for all basic, major care.
3. Gives patients the freedom to choose from participating physicians and institutions—which, given the coverage of the new national system, would be any institution or clinic in the United States receiving any degree of public funding (i.e. the vast majority).
4. Prohibits a private health insurer from selling health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act. Allows the private insurers to sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits.
5. Sets forth methods to pay institutional providers of care and health professionals for services. Prohibits financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization.
6. Establishes the USNHC Trust Fund to finance the Program with amounts deposited: (1) from existing sources of government revenues for health care; (2) by increasing personal income taxes on the top 5% of income earners; (3) by instituting a progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment income; and (4) by instituting a small tax on stock and bond transactions. Transfers and appropriates amounts that would have been appropriated for federal public health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. These taxes would be paid instead of insurance premiums, as the government (instead of private insurance companies) would be paying for the care under this single-payer system.

note:  vastly superior to obamacare.  it is one of several universal care deals floating around.

look for significant gop resistance

Medicare-For-All Savings Would Be Equivalent to Eliminating Income Tax for 99% of Americans

Medicare-For-All Savings Would Be Equivalent to Eliminating Income Tax for 99% of Americans:



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So says the analysis of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and tax law professor David Cay Johnston.  Johnton makes it pretty clear that Sanders’ plan will be a boom to the economy.  Major US manufacturers have discussed that the current for-profit health insurance system adds as much as $1400 to the cost of manufacturing each vehicle in the United States versus their single-payor competitors, but the savings could be enormous for individuals.

Think about that for a minute, $1400 of the cost of your new Ford or Chevy is healthcare costs for their workers and it is cheaper in Germany or Japan for competitors with universal healthcare. Do you think the price of your next car might fall a bit to compete? Do you think manufacturers might consider America more attractive? Do you think that Walmart might shave $0.02 off a gallon of milk because their healthcare costs went down?

His plans, if smartly put into law, would actually make the economy more efficient, saving taxpayers huge sums in some areas, while costing more in others. In my book "Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality," and in Newsweek and Reuters, I have shown from official data that a smart single-payer system would save so much money it would be the equivalent of eliminating the income tax for 99% of Americans.

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This story, to me, seemed to be burying the lead!  It is deep into the analysis, but it might be one of the most important points.

Addendum: Thanks to Ozzie for pointing to an article in the comments below by Physicians for a National Health Program for spelling out in more detail how the current system robs Americans. It is interesting reading, and explains how the government already pays for 2/3 of all healthcare spending. www.pnhp.org/...

Countdown Bill Maher on pushing health care reform

from 2009

Bill Maher Explains the Healthcare Crisis, March 6, 2009

old one, but has obamacare cured this?  from 2009