Tom Steyer: „Wir brauchen eine einheitliche Gesundheitsversorgung“
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5668579-tom-steyer-single-payer-health/amp/
Tom Steyer: „Wir brauchen eine einheitliche Gesundheitsversorgung“
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5668579-tom-steyer-single-payer-health/amp/
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The system we have is closer to wealth care than health care.
It literally prioritizes money over health.
That would have been more useful of an opinion if he believed that when he ran for president not governor of California
At least medicare for all with the option of buying supplemental coverage.
Healthcare in the USA is a dumpster fire, and without some major changes it will only continue getting worse.
Only way there’s a possibility of change is if the Dems get the Presidency & a supermajority in Congress. Without a supermajority, Citizens United and everything else on the wish list is never gonna happen!
I’m liking this guy more and more
The US needs to get money out from politics and propaganda out from media, then the rest will follow.
Of course it’s a Democrat. Republicans fight anything that helps American people.
America is the only first world country with GoFundMe health care system.
Billionaire private health care companies will do everything including paying media to demonize universal health care system for obvious reasons.
Is there any federal law that would prevent any states that wanted to participate to have a single-payer system?
This is the way.
Dems need to just say what they want-no more placating the “right leaning” people who will never be on board.
dude wants medicare for all but made billions off the same broken market, it’s more like jeff bezos running for postmaster then promising to kill amazon, isn’t that pathetic?
The single biggest hurdle to healthcare equity in the US is that big insurers and their related PBMs make an ungodly amount of money off it. Go check your 401k – good chance you have UHC or CVS Health (Aetna) featured in the funds you invest in. That’s because they make money hand over fist. Trying to disrupt the billionaires from this system will be a painful fight. It’s worth fighting for sure, but they own politicians and make huge political donations, which makes diminishing their market all the more difficult.
Don’t misunderstand me, we absolutely need single payer. However, if the only thing we change is whose paying the bill we will fix almost nothing. Hell we might even make it worse, out of sight might make it even easier for doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies to charge wildly inflated prices. Until we put out big boy panties on and attack the entire system we will absolutely continue to pay wildly inflated costs.
For example, I’m diabetic and one medicine that I have to take is $1000 a month and the manufacturer admits it cost $10-15 to produce.
Hospitals happily charge $15 for a single Tylenol.
Want a real treat, drive through the doctor’s parking lot of a hospital on a warm summer day and count the $250k+ cars.
Yes we do
Yes, we certainly do. Will we get it? Not likely.
Welcome to the 20th Century, Merica! Next: realizing all the high capacity carbines are not protecting your students! Ambitious, I know.
This is the second time Ive seen this headline without noticing the sub and I keep assuming it’s gonna be about „single player games“ or something just because my feed is normally about games
You think?
The only way to get universal health care in the US is to expand Medicaid to everyone without health insurance.
A public option won’t work because millions won’t pay their premiums.
Medicare people have their premiums deducted from Social Security. $205 per month for 2026.
The idea that *two* layers of profit—one for the provider and one for the insurance company—must be skimmed off of every instance of care we receive is why Tylenol at the hospital “costs” $800 per dose. Absolutely batshit idea for a system.
Of all the things that have been used to divide the people and keep us at each others throats how is this not the single issue we all come together on and unite. I hate single issue voting but this is my exception. Poor and middle class being bankrupt by health care is insane. Being bound to your employer for health care is insane. People need to wake up and demand better.
Then he should have backed Bernie instead of trying to run for president himself and then endorsing Biden in 2020.
This is low-key a big deal since he was completely against single-payer healthcare in the 2020 democratic primaries.
Where all my Steyer Stans at????? #SteyerStan!
The only good thing about the Trump presidency is that single-payer is now inevitable.
This is really the only serious way to tackle our health care dilemma. Too few covered at too high a cost in a system that is designed for exploitation by middlemen. We will save money with single payer and remove the sword above every American’s head from a service that everyone must inevitably use many times, and which unfortunately drives too many into bankruptcy today.
Republicans now blaming Obamacare for propping up insurance company profits. Single payer fixes this but republicans don’t want it?
Bernie has been saying this for decades.
95% of Californians have health insurance
A modern-day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent
Don’t put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day’s events
The river
Has ANY country ever adopted the US model? Not a one.
“That’s communism” – idiots
Honestly, they could cut everything else in terms of safety nets, just give us single payer healthcare including dental and vision.
We need you to pay taxes.
Uh oh. A billionaire with opinions on how the world should work. Get him.
Y’all steyer says we need single payer, meanwhile his hedge-fund homies just shorted unitedhealth into the stratosphere very “practice what i preach” energy, pfft
Massachusetts implemented near universal healthcare in 2006, and consistently ranks as the best in healthcare access and outcomes across the country. This is not rocket science, Tom, millions of people have been saying it for a long time.
I wish voters hadn’t inexplicably dismissed this guy last time.
He’s an actual successful businessman who actually earned it, and now uses his wealth for philanthropy.
His platform seemed sensible.
The main discernible flaw was that people didn’t like his knitted tie or something.
I’m not voting for a billionaire.
Billionaires need to be removed from our financial system.
We need rich people to stay out of politics, … and pay their taxes…
Nothing that you’re legally obligated to have, and will be fined by the government for not having, should be profit focused.
We’re basically bullied by the government into paying the executives who run these companies millions to do so, and millions more in stocks, just to get screwed ourselves. Would we need subsidized premiums if the executive and CEO wages weren’t so insane? They’re robbing the country to fill their own pockets. Health insurance in America is basically legal theft, and people should be in the streets about it.
They intentionally make it extremely difficult to get a price on services before purchasing them, leaving many people in a situation that feels like they’re just making up whatever price they feel like after you’ve already committed to paying (also illegal, I think).
As health insurance companies are for-profit, and members have already paid premiums, they make money denying care by not paying back out for someone’s care. Denying care often leads to someone’s death. Health insurance makes the most money when denying services to someone, and that person dies. They got their money, and didnt have to pay any out. 100% profit margin per customer in these cases. Refusing to deliver goods or services that have been paid for is already illegal in almost every other industry, and should be here. Denial of care should not exist.
More so, outside of the weapons industry, making money killing people should be outright illegal. Remember the outrage about „death panels“ with Obamacare? More projection from the right. They just wanted to further entrench the service-denial, for-profit, death panel system that already exists.
I mean everyone else does it better. Time to let the exceptionalism slide and do something that benefits the majority of the population instead.
We needed it decades ago. I can’t believe this is still so controversial. I mean, if the US system is so wonderful, why aren’t other countries adopting that system?
A billionaire gubernatorial candidate. Great. A rich guy can finally get a little power and run things.
/s for the smooth brains.
I’m in LA and he’s running a lot of ads on affordable housing and limiting how much private equity can buy. I have no opinions on him at this time but hopefully this will bring the issues into the forefront of the conversations.