Medicare for All can be attained
In her Feb. 16 column, Cynthia Tucker claims that many health experts say a Medicare for All plan which includes dental, vision coverage, mental health care and long-term care can’t be done while saving money. Yet many health experts say it can.
Furthermore, it’s more than politics that keeps us from having Medicare for All; it’s the insurance companies that have spent millions of dollars lobbying to keep it from becoming a reality. The current Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was designed by the insurance companies with their own interests (profits) placed first and the health care of Americans second.
Gerald Freedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, told the Huffington Post in January that he estimates “a single-payer system would save about $600 million in its first year alone.” Single-payer savings would come from reducing the money and resources that currently go into administering the private health insurance system, such as eliminating the enormous dollar costs that are faced by every medical office for maintaining staff needed to decipher the cost of procedures, and what and how much the insurance companies will reimburse.
Savings also would come from eliminating overhead, underwriting, billing, sales and marketing departments, as well as huge profits and exorbitant executive pay. Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. As a result, administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans’ health dollars, most of which is waste.
According to Physicians for National Health Plan (PNHP), “Single-payer financing is the only way to recapture this wasted money. The potential savings on paperwork, more than $400 billion per year, are enough to provide comprehensive coverage to everyone without paying any more than we already do.”
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reality of the current system.
Folks like you have decided NOW to draw a line in the sand, which is not just suicide but reflects a lack of perspective.
This silliness of purity voting, you wont cast your vote for a corp friendly person 
Good luck then, because other than Bernie, they ALL are to one degree or another.
it is nice to see that view has grabbed your support............ 
