Die Dynamik für Medicare for All nimmt zu: Während private Krankenversicherer ihre Prämien um Dutzende Millionen erhöhen, will nun eine Mehrheit der Amerikaner Medicare for All – auch wenn dies die Abschaffung privater Krankenversicherer und höhere Steuern mit sich bringt.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/medicare-for-all-health-popularity
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It’s exactly what the country needs, so naturally we can never have it.
They didn’t have to eliminate private health insurers in Canada. There is no way that a government plan can cover every expense – there are limits to everything. Further, there are minimum standards of care that are covered by the government, but Hospitals don’t generally go beyond that.
For example, while living in Canada, one of my kids fractured an ankle. We had the choice of a plaster cast (free) or a walking boot ($150). The supplemental insurance provided by my employer covered the walking boot.
„Free“ hospital rooms are wards (4+ to a room). Semi-private rooms (2 to a room) cost extra. Again, semi-private was covered by my employer plan.
Dental. Prescriptions. Vision. There will still be lots for private insurance to do beyond universal coverage.
As a physician gotta say easier to work with medicare/medicaid + drug companies most of the time than many private insurance for my field at least
If insurance premiums are eliminated, then the tax increase wouldn’t even be noticed by the average American.
Your increased taxes will be cheaper than a for-profit health insurer will ever charge you
Insurance does not lower costs or increase access. It exists only to generate capital for share holders and CEOs.
It shouldn’t raise taxes. What the worker would currently pay into Medicare and private insurance would go to their health insurance
Kill all private health insurance
It’s time for change. This failed private health insurance healthcare system must end even if we need to pay more in taxes.
It takes a LOT of taxes to exceed what we already pay for insurance. Remove the middleman and everyone gets to benefit
Note to all the „it’ll never happen“.
100yrs ago, that was child labor, work safety, civil rights, marriage equality, EPA, financial regulations, social security, etc
It CAN happen if there’s a massive enough vote for it
Here in Australia we have a dual system. Everyone gets free healthcare, but there’s also private insurance if you can afford it and you want a faster and higher level of service.
Jacobin based in reality as always, just not our reality
Hell yes and make sure the people asking for your vote listen hard about this too
Burn it all!
“ even if it means eliminating private health insurers” it frames that like anybody fucking likes these roaches lmao
„even if“ it ends private insurance ❌
Especially because it ends private insurance ✅
I know jacobin can be trusted here ofc, but it’s an important distinction. We want good care. Insurance isn’t care. It’s a middleman that exists for no reason.
Our best path to making it happen is more achievable than others realize, and it’s following the way Canada achieved it — starting small. It took one province doing it, then more, then boom.
In multiple blue states there are plans to get that ball rolling. That’s how it starts. When OR, NY, CA, and who knows who else has solved the problem, it’ll be a challenge to not roll it out at a wider scale.
America is a third world country in a Gucci belt. Our taxes line the pockets of the rich and don’t benefit the working & middle classes in any way.
Raising taxes….. they are paying for insurance that may or may not cover them. Its negligible the difference for actual guaranteed medical security.
Interesting fact, if all those people ended up voting and most of the US chose democrats, that is what you would get. These sort of things do not exist precisely because of republicans and non-voters.
1: ESPECIALLY if it entails eliminating private insurers. 2: Taxes don’t need to go up, there’s more than enough tax money already collected.
Fuck the for profit health insurance industry. Nothing but leaches on the system.
„even if it means eliminating private health insurers“ like anyone likes health insurance lol
Ain’t gonna happen until we get money out of politics… Establishment Democrats are just as opposed to M4A as the GOP
Maybe dems run on this
So long as Republicans control Congress and the filibuster is still in place, we will never have Medicare for all.
Gee, I wish this momentum had existed, say, back around the time of the 2016 primary.
Yes you would pay more in taxes, but less than you pay in premiums, deductibles, copay’s, fees.
Nobody looks private insurance. It’s what we’re stuck with. We all want better regardless of politics