Corporate Media Are Here to Warn You: Medicare for All Is a Very Bad Idea

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Corporate Media Are Here to Warn You: Medicare for All Is a Very Bad Idea

Alan MacLeod

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is heating up, and healthcare is a key issue up for debate. A number of high-profile candidates, including Kamala Harris, Tulsi Gabbard and Elizabeth Warren, have endorsed a Medicare for All solution to America’s healthcare problem. However, the idea is most closely associated with Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has made it a central platform of his election bid.

The United States spends around twice as much on healthcare as other high-income nations, with inferior results. Worse still, around 45 million Americans, 13.7 percent of the population, have no healthcare whatsoever. The Medicare for All plan, which aims to create a nationalized healthcare system like those employed by virtually every other high-income nation, is highly popular among the general public. In late 2018, polls from Reuters and Harris found that at least 70 percent of Americans supported the proposal—including majorities of Republicans.

However, corporate media appear to be almost univocally against the idea, with the flow of doom-mongering stories increasing to a roaring flood as the notion gains more traction among the public.

Ignoring Opinion

Ignoring the many opinion polls showing widespread and increasing support for the plan, CNN (4/24/19) suggests “most Americans” do not want Medicare for All. The New York Times (10/19/18) told us, “Don’t get too excited about Medicare for All.” Evincing no sympathy for the tens of millions without any healthcare, it invited us to feel instead for the private doctors who would face a “cut in revenue” if the progressive plan were implemented. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/21/18) described it as a “preposterous proposal,” while USA Today (9/20/17) claimed Bernie’s plan is “all wrong for America.”


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[Sherman A1]

1. Well

Thank Goodness they are here for us and paying close attention to the needs of their readers and viewers.

[GWC58]

3. Well they sure weren't going to give this a ringing endorsement!

This proposal would eat into their massive profits. Can’t have that, now can they?! Lousy fuckers!! 😡

[democratisphere]

2. Paying double for half assed lousy outcomes.

The white coat and white collar criminals having it their way, aided and abetted by the wall street media.

[myohmy2]

8. +1

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[2naSalit]

4. Since a lot of their sponsors are

drug and medical corporations, they aren't going to sing any other tune.

[Sherman A1]

5. Yup

How else would we find out about all the drugs we never knew we needed?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Take right drugs, make them rich! Take "wrong" (happy) drugs, get thrown in jail for a joint. . . nt

[2naSalit]

13. INdeed...

just one of the results of this rather successful attempt at conditioning us.

[Maggiemayhem]

6. The progressive wing of the Democrats is getting attacked viciously this past week.

[Vinca]

7. How strange. You'd think their giant pot of gold was on the line.

Oh, right. It is.

[watoos]

9. it invited us to feel instead for the private doctors who would face a "cut in revenue" if the

progressive plan were implemented.

Want to know what cut Medicare doctors wages? The Sequestration Bill. Every year from 2013 until 2024 reimbursement payments to Medicare doctors is being cut 2% every year.

What's with the statement, "private doctors?" There won't be an influx of government doctors under Medicare for all. The insurance provider will be the only change.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. American Exceptionalism: "Spends twice as much with inferior results" ... because Con ideology. . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. (wrong placement, sorry)

[BeckyDem]

14. Excellent.

K&R

[area51]

15. Please support

comprehensive Medicare for All, and ask Speaker Pelosi to support it.