2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumInsurance Industry Panics As Sanders Vows To Ban For-Profit Healthcare
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/insurance-industry-panics-as-sanders-vows-to-ban-for-profit-healthcare/The truly damning piece of the picture is that even with these absolutely outrageous costs, America ranks dead last in health outcomes among the 17 most developed nations, according to the World Health Organization. The obvious cause of these runaway healthcare costs, which have devastating impacts on Americans at a time of declining real incomes, is the fact that the American healthcare system, unlike its counterparts throughout the rest of the developed world, has been run almost exclusively on a for-profit basis, incentivizing money-making speculation at the expense decent, affordable care.
Even as Republican obstructionists seek to keep Americans indebted to price-gouging pharmaceutical and insurance companies by voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act for the 62nd time in a criminally misguided defense of their sacred market principles, both of the leading candidates for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are hoping to build on Obamas progress with new measures to curb healthcare costs. Sen. Sanders, who is now the leading candidate in both Iowa and New Hampshire, has been particularly aggressive in his drive for better healthcare, making it a centerpiece of his social democratic campaign.
In perhaps his most poignant expression yet of support for a total overhaul of the healthcare system, Sanders said yesterday in an interview on MSNBCs Morning Joe that for-profit healthcare must go once and for all in America. First question we have to ask, he said, is should healthcare be a right of all people or should it not? I think it should. Weve decided public education is a right. You dont have to be rich to go to high school. We should make that determination [about healthcare]. Every other major country on Earth has done it He went on to praise the Affordable Care Act for eliminating the obscenity of pre-existing conditions and expanding Medicaid, but called the Act a small victory for the uninsured.
Segami
(14,923 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)doing the right thing for several years.
The sad reality is either all or 99% of elected cons will obstruct all out single payer and half or more of elected Dems I think will also.
kenn3d
(486 posts)Which is precisely why WE the 99% of unelected morons have to stand with Bernie and ELECT a Congress that won't obstruct his doing the right thing for our country's pathetic profit-driven healthcare system.
All we have to do is VOTE, and it's GAME OVER for the crooks and profiteers who've been running and wrecking this country for decades. We outnumber them 99 to 1, and that's what Bernie has been saying to us... "LOUDLY and CLEARLY" throughout this campaign.
Elect him. And make sure the Democrats AND the Republicans know what WE expect of them all.
randome
(34,845 posts)And there is nothing to indicate panic other than the author's opinion.
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earthside
(6,960 posts)... every Democrat and every average working American ought to get on board with Bernie Sanders.
EOM
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE RICH!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)We probably won't get it, but we for sure won't if no one fights for it.
riversedge
(70,383 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)riversedge
(70,383 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)The first $2,700 and lets the rest go to the DNC, where her poodle (DWS) spends it for her benefit.
sonofspy777
(360 posts)perfect.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I guess the insurance industry needs boosters too.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Sure, if some sleaze can make a few bucks on someone else's health care, he might support the profit motive in medicine. Yet even that sleaze wouldn't want his own health care options determined by someone else making a profit.
A lot of people may assume our medical system runs on a for-profit basis, but almost all of the largest hospitals actually operate on a nonprofit basis. Many medical insurance companies also operate as nonprofits. Much of the administrative overhead in American medicine and medical insurance comes from for-profit insurance companies looking for excuses to deny claims. Denial of legitimate claims is a big money-maker for them.
kacekwl
(7,024 posts)I have been in a panic for decades regarding my health care. It's amazing how little choice you have on marketplace insurance policies. I don't understand why. They are getting paid the full boat amount even though I may get a subsidy . No hospitals covered , few doctors covered , even with high deductibles. SCREW THEM. Healthcare for all please.
blondie58
(2,570 posts)To Get People That will work with Bernie. The Revolution Has Started.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Go Bernie!
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)There are probably several hundred.
in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)FDR - SOCIAL SECURITY . Johnson - Medicare. Sanders - Medicare for all.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Instead he outsourced policy to Joe Lieberman