Healthcare CEO explains why Warren's Med4All plan will work.

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But for UMass Memorial Health Care CEO Dr. Eric W. Dickson, Medicare for All — specifically, Sen. Elizabeth’s Warren’s plan for Medicare for All — is not only worth considering, it’s worth praising.

“It’s a bold and courageous plan, and the best plan that any candidate has come out with to date,” Dickson said Tuesday. “It’s an option to consider ... very few health care CEOs would say that at this point.”

Early last month, Warren released a plan to enact Medicare for All that she said would not raise taxes on the middle class. The plan, constructed with help from economists and health policy experts, estimates a $20.5 trillion cost over a decade and moves the country to universal health care over three years by first building on existing laws, including the Affordable Care Act. The plan is largely paid for by requiring employers to pay what they would normally pay in health insurance premiums to the government in the form of an Employer Medicare Contribution.

https://www.telegram.com/news/20191207/umass-ceo-eric-dickson-backs-medicare-for-all-calls-plan-bold-courageous?

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Dickson wrote to the Massachusetts Democrat to offer his support, earning a Nov. 2 Twitter shoutout from Warren, and Dickson tweeted in support of a “redesigned Medicare for All plan,” the following week.

In an interview Tuesday, Dickson broke down two major challenges in health care that he said Warren’s plan would address: people without insurance, and care that costs too much and is getting more expensive.

The first challenge would be solved by definition by Medicare for All, Dickson said.

The high cost of health care is a more difficult nut to crack.

But Dickson said Warren’s plan has crucial elements that make it work.


A “linchpin” to the proposal for Dickson is administrative simplification — particularly simplifying the preauthorization and denial processes through streamlined forms rather than a form unique to each state and/or each medical insurer.

Not only would this go a long way to reducing costs by freeing up physicians’ and workers’ time, it would also lessen physicians’ frustrations with — and burnout from — constant paperwork, Dickson said.

The Warren plan also “levels the playing field” for health care providers by paying them all at 110% of Medicare rates, Dickson said.
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[The Mouth]

1. This is impressive

Must rethink.

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2. It always takes ONE prominent CEO to admit the change is DOABLE and right to

get the ball rolling.

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3. K & R big time. NT

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4. Thanks. There is a crack in the dam that was erected.

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5. After work kick. Hope more people read the entire piece and

reconsider their personal or political bias against Medicare for All.

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6. K&R

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7. Nobody argues that it won't "work"...

They argue that it will be more expensive than voters are willing to accept and that people aren't willing to give up private insurance options.

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8. It will be LESS expensive overall. Is there a legit argument that explains HOW it

will be MORE expensive for people?

“We spend $140 million a year on our employees’ health insurance,” Dickson said. “If the government were to tax me $140 million a year and give all of our employees insurance, I’m neutral ... With no new costs, we could pay that to the government and then we could move to a single-payer system.”

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10. Then make the case it's more expensive - they CANNOT because

it isn’t. They’ll pat themselves on the back after declaring it’s too expensive then walk away from actually trying to prove it.

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9. Med4All SAVES billions in money and time wasted on paperwork.

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Health insurance paperwork wastes $375 billion
PUBLISHED TUE, JAN 13 201511:54 AM ESTUPDATED TUE, JAN 13 201512:08 PM EST
Dan Mangan
@_DANMANGAN
And you thought your bills were out of control.

The United States health-care system wastes an estimated $375 billion annually in billing and insurance-related paperwork that could be saved if the nation moved from a “multipayer” health coverage system to a “single-payer” system run by the government, a new study says.

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11. That guy might be right, but he's a evil millionaire.

So doesn't Warren and her supporter drink their tears or is that just billionaire tears? LOL

https://www.telegram.com/news/20191207/umass-ceo-eric-dickson-backs-medicare-for-all-calls-plan-bold-courageous

Meanwhile, some UMass Memorial executives saw their salaries jump in 2014. UMass Memorial paid Chief Executive Dr. Eric W. Dickson about $1.6 million in compensation in 2014, up from $917,900 the year before, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.

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12. This is too serious to be dismissive, rogue. There ARE patriotic

Millionaires and billionaires who are willing to come around. Why be dismissive when one of them does and admits the truth? Jokes are for distracting from the serious truth....that single payer IS the answer and the most cost-effective for the country.

No one has ever said that wealthy people are all the same. Patriotic millionaires and billionaires WANT their taxes increased and want a universal healthcare system. And they appreciate what Warren is saying, and don’t take it as being directed at them. The targets are the ones who go on tv and cry and whine about paying a fairer share of taxes.

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13. Your right, and send this exact reply to Warren.

Maybe she'll stop selling billionaire tear mugs or tweeting stuff like the below tweet.

Link to tweet

I donated to her campaign during the earlier days. The eat the rich message that her campaign adopted ended that support.

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14. Having wealthy pay a fairer share is not eattherich

It’s civilization based in common sense economics.