2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: My detailed take on why NOT Bernie Sanders [View all]ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)research Bernie's Health Care Plan. My daughter and son-in-law have their Master's degrees in they're given field as ARNPs. My daughter, cardiology my son-in-law, general medicine. They work with a full fledged doctors, but they see their own patients and are able too treat them too. They have few limitations, but there are some like being unable to prescribe controlled substances. But they can prescribe medicine, admit patients, etc. And BOTH of them UNDERSTAND what he's saying and have also told me that many. many doctors and fellow workers WANT this! And they DO believe it will save money. Just saying raising taxes is easy and OMG horrible, but it's HOW it's done that gives you a complete picture! Thom Hartmann had a guest on his show last week, I forgot his name (sorry) but he explained very well after he crunched the numbers. You can probably find his comments from his show The Picture, maybe Wed. or Thurs. What can it hurt to check it out?
Insurance companies and Pharmaceutical companies CONTROL so much of Health Care now and even with ACA it's still extremely expensive. Big Pharma has not been stopped from raising prices and too many LARGE Insurance companies still have LOTS of control. Fixing ACA is something they are completely against. It does nothing to cut down on office costs and piles of paperwork. The system has even gotten more complex because THERE ARE MORE OF THEM!
I live in a county that's voted RED almost every single election, and even here the doctors want to start over. Fixing ACA and NOT REALLY addressing Insurance companies and ESPECIALLY Big Pharma will change very little. I wonder how many here even know the POWER of Big Pharma! It's right at the top of the list with Lobbyist growing day by day. Yeah, even Howard Dean has sold out to them along with Hillary.
So, say what you will and believe what you think is the truth, I'm just repeating information that's been told to me by my own daughter and her husband. I believe their stories more than Hillary's and TPTB!