Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill 'Medicare for All'

[guillaumeb]

This needs to be repeated over and over again.

From the article:

Even before Democrats finish drafting bills to create a single-payer health care system, the health care and insurance industries have assembled a small army of lobbyists to kill “Medicare for all,” an idea that is mocked publicly but is being greeted privately with increasing seriousness.
Doctors, hospitals, drug companies and insurers are intent on strangling Medicare for all before it advances from an aspirational slogan to a legislative agenda item. They have hired a top lieutenant in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign to spearhead the effort. And their tactics will show Democrats what they are up against as the party drifts to the left on health care.

To read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/politics/medicare-for-all-lobbyists.html

And why are the profiteers spending all of this money?

Because Medicare for All threatens their profits. It is that simple.

The Insurance industry, Big Pharma, and associated profiteers see any form of single payer as an existential threat to their profits.

And when I read about various unions, and their insurance plans, remember that none of these plans are guaranteed any longer than the life of a union contract.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And HUNDREDS of thousands, probably not millions, not sure, of JOBS directly

related to our current BAD FUCKED UP system

I want UHC, but we have to employ the rank and file people now employed by that system in the new system.

[guillaumeb]

2. An excellent solution.

The US is ranked 37th. And it is ranked 37th for a reason.

[LonePirate]

3. I am still amazed how some Dems & Dem candidates prioritize corporate profits over human health.

[guillaumeb]

4. And pretend that there is no other solution.

When every other industrialized democracy does it better.

[pecosbob]

5. Unfortunately if our health-care system is ever to be 'healthy'

a great number of people that work in the industry will have to find new jobs. The unavoidable Jersey barrier in our way are the ranks of superfluous workers that are in effect parasites on the system, specifically insurers and bean-counters. Not that they're evil people or anything, it's just that these jobs are wholly unnecessary and terribly expensive. That's my two cents for today.

[guillaumeb]

6. And you are correct.

Perhaps they can find jobs in the Green New Deal. And no, I am not trying to be funny.

[SoCalNative]

7. Time to mobilize

to kill the insurance industry and get the healthcare industries in line with government controlled pricing and salary caps.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. It would be great to see them mobilize

To improve health care for all Americans so that nobody is interested in seeking alternative systems.

[guillaumeb]

9. What a silly idea.

That would require taking less in profit. And the 1% would scream about that.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. I know

What *was* I thinking?