On 50th Anniversary Of Medicare, Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls For Medicare-For-All

[JDPriestly]

19. Building railroads across the Rockies was an uphill battle.

Getting healthcare for all is not. It's just a matter of making sense of it and explaining the advantages. One of the advantages is that if you go to Illinois to work on a project for six months, you can easily use the insurance you purchased in Nevada. No problem. The rules are pretty much the same everywhere, and there is one provider network and one insurance payment and insurance management administration, and it makes everything easier.

In Europe each country had its own insurance system, but everyone was covered somewhere. It worked out fine. I had two babies. Each time, the baby was born in a country in which we were visiting -- in one case specifically to have the baby there. (We lived near the border of the country in which the baby was born.) In the other case, we had moved on the promise of a job that did not materialize.

The doctors were delighted to help me. No questions asked. My husband was working on the economy and had local insurance in different countries in each case. No problem.

Here, we over-complicate our health insurance issues.

If I am with Kaiser, I can't go to any doctor that isn't in he Kaiser network unless I get special permission. Why should that be? Why aren't all of our doctors, regardless what office they are in and with whom they prefer to work, on the same insurance schedule and list?

In my experience, it is our system that is full of red tape and unnecessary bureaucratic naysayers.