I’m not especially committed to one way over another:
📣 Ahead of the upcoming #DemDebateMI, a reminder that regardless of their rhetoric or the confusion on branding, nearly every Dem POTUS candidate would support *multiple* paths towards Universal Healthcare Coverage…while the GOP wants to tear it away: https://t.co/bviXwwTOUU
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) July 28, 2019
I am shamelessly prejudiced toward whichever system actually happens and gets me covered, as a disabled person I can’t really see it otherwise.
The whole Heritage thought up, Romney implemented, Rube Goldbergian mandate, regulation and subsidies model seems far-fetched and needlessly wasteful compared to any single payer system that was seriously considered and implemented without being torn down at every chance by one of the two major political parties, but because of it I can see to type this, and without it I would still be blind.
That is true even though I have Medicare, which pays for 80% of the cost of the surgery that saved my eyesight, leaving me with +/- $2,000 up front to come up with on my own, which I just didn’t and still don’t have.
Politically speaking, the best looking approach on offer seems to be the Medicare buy in model. It gets the coverage part accomplished without the political heavy lift of destroying the current coverage of 150 million people and convincing them that their coverage will be better, and oh yeah, your taxes are going up to pay for it.
Now don’t get me wrong, the coverage most likely would eventually be better, and the tax increase would for most be less than the premiums that no longer had to be paid every month, but try convincing those 150 million people all at once and the likelihood of success goes way down.
Let people buy into Medicare (I have Medicare, and I’m here to say that if you could get it, you’d want to) and the program will sell itself to those 150 million. That’s why we still have it after all of these years of constant Republican attacks.
Ah yes, they will fight for youuuuuu . . . I don’t think so.
Biden is worthless. Harris is untrustworthy (misheard the question about private insurance eh?). Booker and Buttigieg would probably hire it out to Goldman Sachs. Warren or Sanders would give it a go but with half of the D congress composed of weak centrist white male wankers like Delaney (WTF is Delaney anyway?) you’d need someone to put the fear of God in them. Can’t wait until the country is ready for president Ocasio-Cortez.
As I head into Medicare next month, I’m terrified about co-pays and deductibles (especially since I got hit with a $25,000 bill for a cardiac test two years ago. So I’m paying for a Medigap plan that’s supposed to cover everything. I hope to God I can continue to afford it.