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In reply to the discussion: Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All' [View all]DBoon
(24,661 posts)30. They love their employer insurance until they don't
Until they have a major procedure and find out because some detail wasn't covered, they owe tens of thousands of dollars
When the carrier tries to drop their spouse because the spouse does not share the same last name
When they change jobs and have to find a whole new set of medical providers, because the doctor they saw for years doesn't accept the new plan.
I could add to this list, but these are only the ones I have personally experienced.
A simple answer to a poll question isn't the whole story.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All' [View all]
Lazy Daisy
Feb 2019
OP
The problem is a majority of the country gets insurance through their employer, and likes it
Recursion
Feb 2019
#6
Well adopting unpopular stances like Medicare for all replacing work place insurance will lead
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#29
The only people who it really helps are the 6% of the country on the individual market
Recursion
Feb 2019
#14
Well there's the 40,000 plus people who die every year due to lack of healthcare.
Hassin Bin Sober
Feb 2019
#18
The issue is the states who refuse to expand medicaid and who are those states who are
Demsrule86
Feb 2019
#26
The AMA tried to stop Medicare, and neither the AMA nor the insurance industry is really
c-rational
Feb 2019
#9