It shows us how stupid, useless and pointless it is to force people to buy it.
People cannot afford the cost of health care on their own. That is why they collectively pool their money together and providers are reimbursed from that pool. Everyone is going to need health care at some point in their lives. All we are talking about is enrolling everyone in Medicare, doing away with all other forms of insurance, doing away with private insurance, and saving us nearly half of the cost in the process while putting more money in the hands of most consumers. Right now, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, it costs about $17K a year to insure a single worker. Of that $17K, the worker pays about $5K and the business pays $12K. For a business of 50 employees, that cost could run about $600K. Under Sanders' single payer, Medicare-for-all proposal, workers would no longer pay premiums, deductibles, co-pay, co-insurance, drug costs, ambulance rides, etc. Instead, they would pay a flat 6.2% of their income and that would be their premium. The average wage in this country is about $53K a year, so $53K x 6.2% = $3,286 a year. Now is $3,286 > or < $5,000? Likewise, a business of 50 employees would have to generate about $10M
in profit in order to pay the same for health care they pay right now. And very few, if any, small businesses even clear $1M in profit a year. Those that do are hedge funds, in which case fuck those guys anyway. So clearly, a Medicare-for-all system makes the most economic sense for businesses and workers. Plus, no more Obamacare. No more Medicaid. No more S-Chip. No more private insurance. No more Medicare supplemental plans. A streamlined, single payer that handles all reimbursement that can use its leverage as the single payer in the marketplace to play providers and drug companies off one another for cheaper fees, rather than vice-versa as it is right now.
ItI'm not a Republican. I'd never vote Republican because, as you're pointing out here, they're just as bad as the Democrats.
Oh right, the Conservative who isn't a Conservative. LOL! Heard that one before. You're not Conservative or Republican, you just kind of find yourself agreeing with them on everything, you espouse their stupid positions, you willfully believe everything they say. But you're not one of them. LOL! You expect me to believe that? In my experience, those who try to equate Republicans with Democrats are self-loathing Conservatives who just don't want to be held to account for all the shit they sipped up over the years.
Have some fucking dignity, dude. Own your fuckups.
