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OAITW r.2.0

(24,496 posts)
1. Fight keeps going.....Medicare for All has to be the goal because the medical care industry needs it
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 06:58 PM
Oct 2021

to survive financially.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. Is there a M4A policy & budget plan yet?
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:06 PM
Oct 2021

We wouldn't have Biden's magnificent BuildBackBetter Policy & budget plan if he hadn't gathered the best & brightest of unsung heroes to create it.

5 years & waiting to have M4A presented on paper as the necessary health policy it is.


OAITW r.2.0

(24,496 posts)
6. It has to happen....or the system will collapse.
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:13 PM
Oct 2021

Only in a federal universal HC system can we deliver a reasonable level of healthcare to all Americans.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
8. So who's writing the policy/budget plan. Any legislator can complile & present it
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:27 PM
Oct 2021

1st steps to making it a reality is to write & present the plan.
Otherwise it unfortunately will remain just a good idea forever.

Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)
2. Most likely, though nothing seems set in stone yet
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 06:59 PM
Oct 2021

Manchin seems to think the current Medicare needs shoring up before new obligations are added to it. You don't go from 3.5 Trillion to 1.5 or 2 Trillion without somethings getting axed, even if the the time frame is shortened. Of course, if Dems hold the House in 2022 and add a couple of seats in the Senate, we can try again in two years.

 

Woodswalker

(549 posts)
3. I'm pretty convinced we will never see comprehensive euro style healthcare
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:00 PM
Oct 2021

As long as dark money buys our elected leaders we will never see anything like the healthcare systems Germany, Denmark and the EU have. Worst part is billionaires world wide buy into America's corrupt system of campaign finance at the expense of working American families who are getting used to being urinated on. Shameful...stupid people will keep us down forever.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
5. Much needed fix for the Dark Money flow is to regulate the 504C PACs.
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:08 PM
Oct 2021

504C PACs are designed to hide foreign, corporate & Dark money, yet act as a flow-thru to campaign support.

Groundhawg

(551 posts)
7. Over the years the age has been creeping up
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 07:26 PM
Oct 2021

Why would it go down? Our life expectancy (barr covid) has been going up, and the program is running out of money.

Tribetime

(4,696 posts)
11. If you work for yourself and have pre-existing conditions
Fri Oct 1, 2021, 08:15 PM
Oct 2021

They're virtually screw to trying to afford insurance yourself

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