The Real Fix for Obamacare's Flaws: Medicare for All by Rose Ann DeMoro

[xchrom]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/03-13


(Image by National Nurses United, Medicare for All campaign)

Lost amidst the well-chronicled travails of the Affordable Care Act rollout are the long term effects of people struggling to get the health coverage they need without going bankrupt.

If that sounds familiar, it's because that's been the main story line of the US healthcare system for several decades. Sadly, little has changed.

Still, with all the ACA's highly publicized snafus, and less discussed systemic flaws, there's no reason to welcome the cynical efforts to repeal or defund the law by politicians whose only alternative is more of the same callous, existing market-based healthcare system.

US nurses oppose the rollback and appreciate that several million Americans who are now uninsured may finally get coverage, principally through the expansion of Medicaid, or access to private insurance they've been denied because of their prior health status.

[lostincalifornia]

1. The only way that will happen today is at the individual state level.

[Scuba]

2. Including dental, optical and hearing aids.

[xchrom]

3. yes. i dislike separating the whole body into parts. nt

[marmar]

4. k/r