Medicare for All Town Halls like this one will educate and force change (VIDEO)

[egbertowillies]

One of the biggest hindrances effecting the only health care system that will work in America is that most Americans are unaware that a proven solution already exists. Medicare for All Town Halls like the one held in Houston, Texas will change that.

https://egbertowillies.com/2017/07/09/medicare-town-halls-education/

[Skittles]

1. may I ask

is Medicare for all the same as single payer?

[egbertowillies]

2. Not necessarily. Medicare could have multiple private insurances as it does today.

Ultimately single-payer is much more efficient because of the efficiencies of one large base and infrastructure. It's math many hope we would forget in order to allow some to pilfer.

[MiddleClass]

3. Technically, yes. Medicare for all usually means one provider of insurance coverage, Medicare admin

Single-payer can mean just that, or single-payer/single provider or as it's called universal healthcare, where the government owns even the hospitals.

The government controlling only the insurance side, and private industry covering the provider is believed to be a better fit right now for the US. Specially because of disruptions in the healthcare industry, which is a group that is on our side that parts company when you start talking about a full Canadian type system.

A lot of Europe has a hybrid of government and private, which increases availability and at the same time suppresses prices.

Not many multimillionaire insurance and pharmaceutical executives as there is in the US

[Skittles]

4. interesting

thank you for both for your responses

I confess ignorance on Medicare - I need to shore up on my knowledge as I am getting up there in years

[MiddleClass]

6. 99 percent of American shares your knowledge level

So did I, until I found myself in a wheelchair fighting politicians to improve Medicare.

Along the way, talking with sick people without Medicare, I found out a world of protections that are built-in to Medicare.

While yes, coverage is not 100%, it's 80%. The remaining 20% is your or your private insurance responsibility.

One huge issue that doesn't explain, $100,000 procedure is not $20,000 deductible.
Medicare only pays $20,000, so by law, all you will be billed is $5000, $1000 if the procedure is in hospital
$100,000 surgery. The most you can be billed by law is $5000, even if Medicare pays nothing.
Once they accept any Medicare payments from anywhere they agree to accept or sue for the deductible.
That runs into millions of dollars of protection from expensive diagnosis.

There is a lot more built-in protections and cost control

[mitch96]

5. I think we should DEMAND the same insurance the congress and senate has.... Then

when they say we can't have that high a quality, we can then demand single payer/medicare for all.
Basic horse trading. Ask for more than what you will settle for...
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