Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Breakdown: 'Centrist' 2020 Candidates Get BOOED Off Stage" video.

David you want to check out Wendell Potter, whistleblower on the insurance industry, former senior executive of Cigna (PR no less, he says he has a binder full of arguments against Canadian style healthcare, it was part of his job to came up with them). he might even do a video or telephone interview, he may want to promote the book (written a few years ago). He testified (either Congress or Senate) in 2009, did not help with the Obama admin and the sellout Dems. Needless to say he is a single payer supporter now. (I think he still does speeches on the issue).
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Imagine being a guy that was able to make 200 millions off the back of U.S. patients, because the U.S. system offers a LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES for the MIDDLEMEN. - and then the peasants dare BOO you !
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Those morons really think people are attached to the for-profit insurance companies ? ? people would for sure be afraid to be w/o coverage but even simple minds understand the concept "you are under the care of Medicare from now on". Even if they are pessimistic: Medicare isn't going to screw them worse than the profiteers. At least it will be a lot of people on the one side with ONE set of treatments they are entitled to (or have difficulties getting). Versus ONE institution on the other side. So they know exactely whom to blame (it will not be the specifics of this or that contract or your medical history or the fine print). That becomes a question of political leverage (and the beneficiaries would also include wealthier people - it is always good if they have skin in the game, they have a megaphone and are not putting up with crap).
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MfA ALSO should help with employment of people of the age of 55 (first round: the rollout would be for people until age 25 and from 55 on).
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Those morons really think people are attached to the for-profit insurance companies ? ? people would for sure be afraid to be w/o coverage but even simple minds understand the concept "you are under the care of Medicare from now on". Even if they are pessimistic: Medicare isn't going to screw them worse than the profiteers. At least it will be a lot of people on the one side with ONE set of treatments they are entitled to (or have difficulties getting). Versus ONE non-profit public institution on the other side. So they know exactely whom to blame (it will not be the specifics of this or that contract or your medical history or the fine print). That becomes a question of political leverage (and the beneficiaries would also include wealthier people - it is always good if they have skin in the game, they have a megaphone and are not putting up with crap).
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"universal healthcare" is fine for these tools - as long as the useless middlemen are still allowed to extract profits. That also triggers insane dysfunction and red tape. The bureaucraZy is necessary for the efffort of maximizing profits while paying lip service to the law and some human decency. (the most cost-efficient way for those vultures whould be to let people die on the steps of the hospital, but that does not quite fly). In reality the middlemen are to blame for doubling spending per person - and this is NOW: take all the spending that happens in the country ** already - divided by all the people. - 10,240 per person per year in the U.S. ** spending no matter who pays: companies, individuals in form of premiums or later out of pocket, and the colluding ! government in form of subsidies, without the high subsidies the system would have already collapsed. Maybe it would be better if Trump and the Republicans had abolished ACA - then the yellow vests would be on the streets already. So of course there can never be "universal" and good coverage it is just too expensive in the dysfunctional for-profit system. Healthcare is expensive in the best of cases - USD 5,000 - 5,500 for every child or adult in the country ON AVERAGE amounts to a lot of money. That is what most wealthy nations spend. Or the U.S. with 10,240 (OECD data 2017)
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