MEDICARE FOR ALL

[SmileyRose]

email it to everyone
post up the net -- have a funny back and forth with someone on Medicare who did not think this was government medical care - and I think I made a little headway.
pester the politicians - One of Saxby's phone guys admitted he thought single payer is the most economical way to go.
submit to the vent
wear it
drive it
live it
chat it up everywhere.
and anything else I can think of
each day

Until we have it or I die.

[Hannah Bell]

1. knr

[TBF]

2. Recommend. nt

[LWolf]

3. k&r

[Sherman A1]

4. K&R Well Said

[StandingInLeftField]

5. So true.

Medical science saved my life in '09.


I had no insurance....I'm not sure they did me any favors.

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[postulater]

7. And let everyone who works know that

"Workers' compensation was the first social insurance enacted in the US, i.e., a government program where risks are pooled and benefits are legally defined. Wisconsin passed the first workers' compensation law in 1911, followed closely the same year by Illinois."


If you work, you have socialized health care.

[LeftinOH]

8. "Medicare For All" should have been the terminology all along-

not just "Health Care Reform". The failure to 'brand' HCR properly has much to do with the resistance that some people feel.

[slipslidingaway]

9. knr - this should have been part of the dialogue when speaking of HC reform :( n/t n/t

[jannyk]

10. Kick & Rec!

[unkachuck]

11. K&R....n/t

[area51]

12. k&r

Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.; that's 100,000 deaths per year.

We need single-payer health care, not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.

We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, unregulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, bankrupts and kills people. Republinazi '93 plan:

"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."

"We will never have real reform until people's health stops being treated as a financial opportunity for corporations."

[Liquorice]

13. Medicare doesn't even cover dental or vision. It's not that good, unfortunately. nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. It is better than the nothing (pre-exister here) that I have now.

Many insurance plans don't cover dental or vision... But something is better than nothing.

[Liquorice]

16. It's better than nothing for sure, but it's disappointingly bad and should be so much better. nt

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. I reiterate, it's better than nothing. It is good compared to the nothing.

Anything at all is better than nothing.

[Liquorice]

18. We don't disagree. My point is seniors should have

dental coverage under Medicare. It's an embarrassment. Republicans made sure to write dental coverage out of medicare. They fought it tooth and nail, so to speak. As a result, my mom cannot get the care she needs. She owes over a thousand dollars to her dentist, and he doesn't want to see her anymore until she pays it off. She is suffering with toothaches, and it's NOT RIGHT. She also needs glasses, but Medicare doesn't pay a dime for that either. My great aunt needs a hearing aid, but they also don't cover that... And on and on. Medicare is a huge disappointment to many seniors. But yeah, it's better than nothing.

edit - for clarity.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. Thank you for acknowledging.

I appreciate it. :)

[SmileyRose]

21. I have "caddilac" coverage and it doesn't cover dental or vision either.

I do have dental insurance that costs $300 a year. It covers 50% - 70% of "covered services" up to a maximum of $1500.
Vision pays for an eye exam every 2 years but no coverage for vision correction. They do provide a list of providers that will give me a discount.

The exception is diabetes vision checkups - the caddilac medical insurance does pay for that once a year if one needs that service.


Which means Medicare covers what the most amazing health insurance company would cover as far as vision and dental.

[slipslidingaway]

20. The Conyers/Kucinich plan included dental and vision, an improved...

version. What a shame the Democrats, not the Republicans, would not even allow a discussion of Improved Medicare for All.

Waiting for the next shoe to drop on entitlement spending :(

[leftstreet]

14. K&R