Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders didn't win any larger argument [View all]Locrian
(4,522 posts)we're going to have millions of people out of work (no employer health care and little $$) - a devastated economy, people who are nearing retirement who have lost $100,000s ....
What type of health care should be proposed? "Free market" type healthcare? Like the current system with not cost controls? What does it look like? People who are locked into a job (what "choice" do you have for HC?) and even WITH coverage risk going bankrupt with a major illness.
I liken this to the end of WW2 when the Great Britain etc were devastated. What do you propose, in light of the current system and it's ability to take care of people not just with COVID-19 but the 60,000 who die each year who have no HC?
I really want to know because I don't think the US will survive (except as a third world country) w/o some type of universal HC focused on the citizens and not profits. There's no mathematical way that you can have a HC system that delivers billions to insurance companies and is accessible to everyone. I fear that most of the other plans try to have it both ways - and I don't see a way to deliver on that. It will *always* favor profits over people.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden