U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D - Conn., are among 16 Senate Democrats who've declared support for Vermont Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders» «Medicare for All»
single payer healthcare insurance bill.
Not exact matches
If we are going to avoid
single -
payer, we will need a plan that liberalizes (and cheapens) access to routine
healthcare while offering affordable catastrophic health
insurance to the struggling working class.
Why?For one thing because we don't have
single payer universal
healthcare like all other civilized countries.Wake up and stop watching Fox News and listening to crooked politicians who are stoodges for the
insurance companies.
Jesus would support universal
healthcare and tell the
insurance companies to leave that business to the government «of the people «and to stop corruptng our politicians, the ones who would deny us
single payer universal
healthcare
Wasn't slavery permitted by your loving God in the bible?And slaying everybody around as long as they didn't belong to yiur tribe?I think I prefer this government as corrupted as it is by
insurance companies who don't want us to have
single payer universal
healthcare.
It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their
healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed,
single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private
insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.