Medicare for All will help solve health care crisis

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Medicare for All will help solve health care crisis

By Richard A. Damon MD. - 11 hrs ago

In contrast to other advanced countries of the world, health care as a human right is still controversial in the United States. Our market-based system still treats health care as a commodity for sale on the open market with access to care based on ability to pay.

The inadequate and shoddy debate over health care is closely linked to the thousands of ill-informed Americans who do not seem to possess even the most rudimentary understanding of the benefits of universal health care reform. John Geyman, MD, author of “The Human Face of Obamacare,” has suggested three alternatives to consider how health care will be financed and how Americans will pay for it under the Trump administration:

1) Repeal the ACA and replace with a vague GOP plan with total privatization, ill-defined subsidies, health savings accounts, and cross-state insurers.

2) Continuation of the unsustainable ACA with changes, but with private insurers, drug makers and big corporate medical stake holders continuing control of costs.

3) Enactment of a single-payer Medicare for All system of National Health Insurance (NHI)...

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http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/letters_to_editor/medicare-for-all-will-help-solve-health-care-crisis/article_fa5a7082-4bdb-5a34-8fe1-d94832e2ca34.html

[libtodeath]

1. We have a government controled by people that want medicare for none so what is our real option?

[yallerdawg]

2. I'm frequently told Medicare is managed by private insurance companies.

And private insurance companies handle the supplemental coverage.

How far off is the Affordable Care Act if it's almost "Medicare for All"?

Or are we talking about ending Medicare as we know it?

[Girard442]

3. 4) Repeal ACA and replace it with nothing.

Lower taxes for the 1% and more dead lower-class folks.

Why would Dr. Damon think this won't happen? That's what Trump supporters voted for, even if they think they didn't.