I spent an hour on the phone yesterday, trying to set up an x-ray at the local hospital. That’s when I found out that the shitty insurance I have (thanks, Trump!) only permits me to get them at a different place 10 miles away, and not at the center that’s five minutes from my house. I was wondering whether it’s worse to be ignorant and get substandard care, or to know too much and be all too aware that you’re getting screwed. (Five more months until Medicare. I can’t wait.)
‘Health’ care
There is a simple and less costly way to deliver health care to Americans and that is Medicare-for-all.
Everybody pays in and everyone gets equal service from cradle to grave.
That means that the entire for-profit health care insurance industry will be ended.
It’s time for Americans to join the more enlightened countries of the world like all of Scandinavia, Canada, Germany, England, New Zealand, Australia, etc.
By the way the Scandinavian countries were again voted the happiest places on earth.
The US came in 15th.
I got Medicare when I became disabled, and if you could get it, you would want to do so. Allowing people to buy into it seems like the most politically feasible way of getting single payer, because it avoids the all at once disruption of the millions of folks who get their insurance through their employers and might not vote to change that.
Medicare will sell itself to the public, even in the face of rabid opposition, just like the ACA did, and like it did after it was first enacted.