Medicare for All sieht eine entscheidende Verschiebung in den Umfragen, da die Amerikaner über die steigenden Prämien für gewinnorientierte Versicherungen wütend sind
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Medicare for All sieht eine entscheidende Verschiebung in den Umfragen, da die Amerikaner über die steigenden Prämien für gewinnorientierte Versicherungen wütend sind
https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-for-all-popular
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Amazing how quickly opinions shift once people realize their premiums are climbing faster than their paychecks. Nothing motivates change like getting squeezed by “for-profit care.”
Sam Seder made an interesting point the other day that while the Trump administration is killing suspected drug dealers becasue they are killing tens of thousands of americans a year with their drugs….the administration itself is cutting medicaid and healthcare subsidies that will kill tens of thousands of americans a year.
Claiming that they are trying to protect americans, while on the other hand they are harming them, calls into question the true motives of attacking these boats.
Yes, use your aggressive feelings. Let the anger of not having a healthcare system flow through you.
I’ve always wondered why more people aren’t on the Medicare for all mindset. Americans have complained for decades about how unaffordable health insurance is and how much insurance companies deny claims.
We need price controls on hospitals and prescriptions before our tax dollars fund any universal program though. No hospital should be allowed to charge $400 for OTC Tylenol given at the bedside or $80,000 for hip surgery, and pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t be charging $600 for a steroid medication for asthmatics. These prices are out of control and capitalism unchecked is killing us.
The cost of for-profit health care is the cost of not-for-profit health care, plus the profit.
Firefighting? Socialized. Policing? Socialized. Sewage treatment, interstate highways, trash collection? All socialized. Healthcare? Privatized.
We’d have NONE of those things if it were up to a vote with today’s murderous conservatives.
It doesnt help that Trump pissing away all this money, there was no excuse that should have been given before this that we cant afford it.
lol the entire concept that people got brainwashed into supporting companies profiting off your health is insane
Republicans want Medicare for all. They want their elected officials to support it. The problem is they they don’t want black and brown people to get it too thus Democrats are bad and we can’t have good things
>Data for Progress released [survey results](https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11/medicare-for-all-is-popular-even-when-put-up-against-attacks) late last month showing that 65% of likely US voters—including 78% of Democrats, 71% of Independents, and 49% of Republicans—either strongly or somewhat support “creating a national health insurance program, sometimes called ‘[Medicare for All](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/medicare-for-all),’ that would cover all Americans and replace most private health insurance plans.”
Health costs are changing minds faster than campaigns ever could
Any outcome outside of the complete destruction of the health insurance companies and the creation of a single-payer healthcare system is unacceptable. The Affordable Care Act enriched the parasites that worsened our healthcare system.
Get involved in passing independent state-level universal healthcare. Most states are already working on this. If other countries can do it with populations similar to or even smaller than our individual states, so can we. Find the group working in your state. Help them. Spend your healthcare money funding healthcare, not funding insurance companies and private equity firms. Independent universal healthcare can be integrated with existing Medicaid and Medicare systems, and can offer stability as federal systems are dismantled.
Here are some examples:
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/HPA/HP/Pages/Task-Force-Universal-Health-Care.aspx
https://healthyca.org
r/wholewashington
https://utahcares.health/p
https://spanohio.org
https://masscare.org/
https://trackbill.com/bill/hawaii-house-bill-1490-hawaii-care-universal-health-care-hawaii-health-authority-single-payer-health-care-system-medicare-medicaid-prepaid-health-care-act/2638300/
If you’re in Illinois contact your local legislator about IL HB3780. That’s the universal healthcare bill here and it’s been sitting in the rules commitee since February.
I’d take Medicaid for all.
More people are signing up for Medicare advantage because it is cheaper. It accomplishes that by *providing less care* because the cost per participant is the same but classic Medicare requires typically a medigap plan in addition which can be costly. The typical Medicare participant receives $250k in care or $12k per year with similar costs for both Medicare advantage and original Medicare.
The bottom line is that while for profit insurance takes a cut, that cut alone cannot explain the ballooning medical costs.
I’m 29 and I have insurance, and I still don’t go to the doctor. I would guess less than 50% of people can just casually go to the doctor without worrying about the cost.
> Overall support for such a system dropped just two percentage points when survey respondents were informed that Medicare for All would replace insurance premiums with higher taxes, abolish most private insurance, and eliminate copays and deductibles.
The truth is when I had health insurance, the benefits were too expensive for me to use. Office visits, co-pays until the deductible is met, then balance billing. I was paying a lot of money each month that cost even more money to use.
With Medicare for all, it’s free at the point of service. Yes, you pay a little more in taxes but holy shit people, you won’t have to pull out your credit card for a doctors appointment. There are no copays, no deductibles. When I lived in the UK, my British husband had a brain tumor…he had a very quick access to surgery in Oxford and there was no post surgery anxiety of waiting for a flurry of bills to come in. I think we paid around $14 for his medications, and that was our whole expense. We also had private insurance, but he had everything done on the NHS.
A Medicare for all with private option for those who wish to pay for it just makes so much more sense than our current system. It is insane we private for-profit companies as the gatekeepers to our healthcare, whose main purpose is to deny claims for better Wall Street earnings report and taking at least $0.40 of every dollar paid in premiums to pay for administration costs and shareholder dividends.
If we get Medicare for All, no doubt we will see a surge of people trying to access it when it launches. These will be people who haven’t been access healthcare because it’s always been too expensive. There has to be a plan to handle that prior to launch. It also means we will need more healthcare professionals to handle the demand for services. And sorry Trump regime, nurses are professionals.
Think I remember reading somewhere when the NHS first launched in the UK they were overwhelmed by the need for eyeglasses. I can’t imagine what the top medical needs will be of Americans. Likely diabetic medications, hearing aids and eye glasses as well.
It is interesting that their deep desire to get rid of Obamacare could directly result in Medicare for all or single payer system if sane politicians get elected in sufficient numbers.