Its Now Time for Medicare for All

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Senator Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Jeff Merkley, are introducing a Medicare For All bill in the Senate. It’s a model for where this nation needs to be headed.
Some background: American spending on health care per person is more than twice the average in the world’s 35 advanced economies. Yet Americans are sicker, our lives are shorter, and we have more chronic illnesses than in any other advanced nation.
That’s because medical care is so expensive for the typical American that many put off seeing a doctor until their health has seriously deteriorated.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/09/13/its-now-time-medicare-all

[MineralMan]

1. Then, it is certain to sail through Congress and be signed by Trump, right?

No? Then it's not time for it quite yet. That time will come when we regain majority Democratic control of the federal government, and not before that time.

Gives us something to work for in 2018 and 2020, doesn't it?

[guillaumeb]

2. It does. It is time, in my view also, but it cannot pass unless Congress is controlled

by Democrats. We saw how much obstruction the GOP could mount when we had a Democratic President.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. The profit margin for preventative medicine sucks

Lotsa money to be made from surgeries & pharmaceuticals, though. Geez, how we gonna MAGA without considering the bottom line?

[guillaumeb]

4. Profit is always the only consideration.

Followed by commercial advertising explaining how the insurance companies really care.