Michael Moore Gives MSNBC's Centrist Hosts a MUCH Needed Reality Check

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44. The biggest hurdle is education on convincing Americans that health care would be cheaper

despite the less take home money from your cheque. To show them that it is like contributing to a much larger pool than their own private insurer, thus less cost per person. Add to that, no middle man, or executives or shareholders to scoop off their take. Plus no pleading with insurance companies for coverage as their job is to DENY you, because they work for their companies bottom line. And its 10x harder to educate the public with not only Fox News and RW radio and internet spouting fake news about it, but the MSM networks as well. I still remember Doctor Gupta on CNN smearing single payer and lauding the private system every day during the debates before the ACA.

More than that, its convincing many Americans that Big Gob'mint will do it right, or that its not just another excuse for another tax and less money in their pocket, for some big boondoggle that they don't need. Especially with the push back from the News media, Republicans, PLUS some older respected Democrats who take donations from those corporations. Add to that the more lucrative hospitals and doctors. There is a huge steep unfair playing field just to get anything passed. It would have to be embraced by enough Republicans as well. It would take a 10 + year commitment. If Republicans would stop playing games of pushing buttons, and instead stood by the conservative mandate of reducing household costs for families, and businesses too BTW, they would get behind it.

As a Canadian that has my Medicare, I don't think many Americans understand that its not just a monetary thing, although you would on average pay half of what you do now. Which that chart does not show. Its also effects the national psychology in general in a very positive way. When everyone in a country doesn't even have to think about what happens if they get sick or injured, for their kids, or themselves. All their lives. It is a whole other way of living. There is no such thing as "pre-existing conditions". Here its called your "medical history". Also, we never use the word "insurance" in regards to our medical services, what does insurance have to do with a human right? Anyways, I just think that many Americans do not appreciate what that kind of peace of mind can do to help you be successful in other areas of your life. I mean how can you? I just want the same for you, my friends down there.




There's a reason why some countries are higher on the happiness charts. Although the UK is a bit of an outlier. Grumpy Limeys.