Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Speaker Pelosi-There's no need to reinvent health care -- just improve Obamacare [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)so you don't someday have sorted stacks of unpaid medical bills on your table costs significant money every month, though, money a whole lot of people just don't have. So, many millions of people do without, knowing that they could be one course of cancer treatment or occluded arteries away from financial devastation.
The other policies are my medication policy, and that matters when one drug alone out of several costs over $300, and our dental and eye policies -- those both only pay part, but for us every bit counts.
Universal healthcare means replacing this system and spreading costs across society to bring the blessings of modern medicine to everyone, not adopting old problems for everyone. And that's why letting the nation think that'll mostly just mean letting everyone qualify for "Medicare" is a scam. Brilliant marketing ploy, but dishonest. It wouldn't be Medicare for All, it'd be something new for all.
Something very like the ACA in fact. I could never understand why Sanders would try to destroy the ACA only to replace it with a very similar profit-based system, instead of completing and advancing what we have up and running well. But Democrats created the ACA when he insisted they were just Republicans at heart and of course he was, as usual, self-sidelined while others lead the way. I strongly wonder if the answer isn't in the assault on his belief system.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden