A Moderate Republican Plan To Fix American Healthcare: 'Medicare For All'?: What if "Medicare for All" ends up being a politically moderate way to bring more market competition to the U.S. healthcare system?
Pros and Cons
The control of the system by large for-profit insurance companies is a major con not seen here.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Here's an argument for single-payer healthcare | PennLive Letters | PennLive.com
Here's an argument for single-payer healthcare | PennLive Letters | PennLive.com: It makes financial sense.
This helps point out some basic issues in a simple form. Choice of provider should not mean the choice of an insurance company. Cost of advertising and profits and high insurance company exec pay should not be considered part of the cost of my actually getting health care. Medicare Advantage Plans should not be the model for a new system - it costs too much and takes our freedom of choice away. There is a big difference between the concept behind Medicare For All and Medicare Advantage. Original Medicare planning did not include giving us all away to the control of for-profit insurance companies. That evolved via $ from insurance companies in lobbying and campaign work. Medical Care For All is what we all are thinking of when we hear and see the pitch of Medicare For All. The concept of insurance should not apply to our access to basic health care services. Insurance companies do not provide health care. They "manage" it. They manage us patients and they manage our doctors. They manage us all to maximize profits, NOT to maximize our health. Their goal is to reduce our access to care so as to increase profits. They are responsible for this county's high cost of health care because their costs are included in those numbers. We can provide universal access by taking their costs out of the equation.
This helps point out some basic issues in a simple form. Choice of provider should not mean the choice of an insurance company. Cost of advertising and profits and high insurance company exec pay should not be considered part of the cost of my actually getting health care. Medicare Advantage Plans should not be the model for a new system - it costs too much and takes our freedom of choice away. There is a big difference between the concept behind Medicare For All and Medicare Advantage. Original Medicare planning did not include giving us all away to the control of for-profit insurance companies. That evolved via $ from insurance companies in lobbying and campaign work. Medical Care For All is what we all are thinking of when we hear and see the pitch of Medicare For All. The concept of insurance should not apply to our access to basic health care services. Insurance companies do not provide health care. They "manage" it. They manage us patients and they manage our doctors. They manage us all to maximize profits, NOT to maximize our health. Their goal is to reduce our access to care so as to increase profits. They are responsible for this county's high cost of health care because their costs are included in those numbers. We can provide universal access by taking their costs out of the equation.
Saturday, October 27, 2018
What Obamacare health insurance costs in every state
Voting does affect your health.
Compare WI & MN:
36. Wisconsin: $502/month
2017: $350/month
2018: $502/month
Change: +43.5 percent
10. Minnesota: $365/month
2017: $429/month
2018: $365/month
Change: -15.1 percent
Minnesota saw a significant decrease in premiums for plans on the state’s health care exchange in 2018 after a new reinsurance program was created. For 2019, all of the private insurance companies on the exchange have proposed lower premiums, according to HealthInsurance.org.
Friday, October 26, 2018
10 Reasons Medicare Advantage Plans Will Never Meet Our Needs
10 Reasons Medicare Advantage Plans Will Never Meet Our Needs: More and more policymakers and Americans are recognizing the value of Medicare for All, a national health insurance program run by the government on behalf of its citizens. But there is still some confusion about the role commercial insurers might play in such a system. | By Diane Archer
Republicans are mischaracterizing nearly all their major policies. Why?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-mischaracterizing-nearly-all-their-major-policies-why/2018/10/25/138dff92-d891-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0DX09IeW886MkEySocuRryKT7nz2GVLmg6B9iRr28p34aqN7WUzHX5stM&noredirect=on&utm_term=.1e006b33c19b
"If expensive illnesses befall some unlucky members of society, and they lacked the foresight or haven’t saved enough to plan for this risk on their own, then too bad. Life ain’t fair."
"If expensive illnesses befall some unlucky members of society, and they lacked the foresight or haven’t saved enough to plan for this risk on their own, then too bad. Life ain’t fair."
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