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In reply to the discussion: Medicare for All Costs Too Much, Pelosi Adviser Assures Health Insurance Executives [View all]JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)22. A whole bureaucracy will need to be created to administer single-payer.
Maybe call it a monopoly government non-profit insurance company. I imagine it would be staffed from insurance companies.
The insurance company workers who are in marketing, advertising, corporate boards, they might be SOL.
Any insurance company employees who have all their 401k invested in their company's stock should look at diversifying, quickly.
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Medicare for All Costs Too Much, Pelosi Adviser Assures Health Insurance Executives [View all]
appalachiablue
Feb 2019
OP
The only pig at the trough that doesn't actually contribute to healthcare outcomes is the insurers
pecosbob
Feb 2019
#1
No shit!!! It seems like every discussion about the high potential healthcare costs...
Raster
Feb 2019
#32
Medicare for all is way cheaper than private insurance supplemented by emergency room visits
tclambert
Feb 2019
#3
I don't why anyone here believes anything that the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald's baby, reports on.
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#6
The ony way Medicare for All could be realistically implemented in the USA would be to
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#9
Phasing in gives the insurance industry time to dig their corrupt fingers into new flesh.
Magoo48
Feb 2019
#11
And make all electric utilities go back to coal so the miners can get back their jobs.
Cold War Spook
Feb 2019
#16
A whole bureaucracy will need to be created to administer single-payer.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2019
#22
I doubt that cost-effectiveness is the point of having Medicare for all.
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#44
Which other programs currently provide health care to children (by insurance or other means)?
No Vested Interest
Feb 2019
#48
VA is a good model for a single-payer system. Unless Trump dissolves it.
JustABozoOnThisBus
Feb 2019
#23