How would you pay for Medicare For All?

[JDPriestly]

160. Why do greedy people gamble?

Interestingly, doctors that I know like to care for their patients and want to give the best care possible.

It is when you get shareholders who want to make money off of their money and not from providing good service and caring for patients that you get all these complicated delays in treatment.

Maybe insurance companies refused preventative medicine because they figured they could collect the premiums for the insurance while denying care and then, if the insured became ill, refuse healthcare coverage somehow. It may also have been the case than when people became ill, they lost their jobs, could no longer afford health insurance and then the insurance company could keep the premiums paid while the insureds were healthy and avoid paying for medical care after the person was too sick to work. Don't ever underestimate the sheer ugly, inhuman, uncaring soulless beings who will do anything to make that extra dollar.

One of the good things that I experienced in single payer programs in Europe was the sense I had that my doctor was the decider when it came to what healthcare I needed and should get. That was the big benefit. The managers of the single payer system did not permit money to be wasted. But the doctors were more in charge of your medical care. Here, the insurance company may be deciding whether you get a medication or not. I suspect that the incentive to deny needed treatments has been reduced by Obamacare, and that is one of the reasons I support Obamacare.

Doctors should be in charge of health care decisions (with the patient of course), not a for-profit insurance company with its cold, financial calculations. I would probably not be alive today had a for-profit been making medical decisions about the birth of my second child. Nor would she. I never forget that.