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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWendell Potter@wendellpotter: While the impending economic devastation from COVID-19 is obvious
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MEDICARE FOR ALL 2020
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Wendell Potter@wendellpotter: While the impending economic devastation from COVID-19 is obvious (Original Post)
BeckyDem
Mar 2020
OP
That may be a good result. People have been chained to their employers with only the employer's
SharonAnn
Mar 2020
#3
Single-Payer Healthcare will take a large expense out of a company's balance sheet
Roland99
Mar 2020
#5
BComplex
(8,050 posts)1. It should have happened when Medicare was first created.
It would have saved many of us a great many headaches. It's never too late to do the right thing.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)2. It sure would have, yes.
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)3. That may be a good result. People have been chained to their employers with only the employer's
insurance options available to them. And whatever, costs the employer chooses to saddle the employee with.
And if you have a health problem, you can't afford to leave your employer. You're truly a "slave" to them.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)4. Well said, thank you.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)5. Single-Payer Healthcare will take a large expense out of a company's balance sheet
they don't get it.
Azathoth
(4,608 posts)6. Lots of people are suddenly gonna be on Medicaid thanks to Obamacare
Once they get used to the idea that they can get insurance from the government and not end up in Stalin's gulags like Fox tells them, private employer-based insurance will be in trouble.