80 Jahre lang haben uns die Republikaner daran gehindert, unser Gesundheitssystem zu reparieren
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5681970-healthcare-crisis-americans-struggle/
80 Jahre lang haben uns die Republikaner daran gehindert, unser Gesundheitssystem zu reparieren
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5681970-healthcare-crisis-americans-struggle/
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Yet, they still vote them in.
Next chance: coming November.
This time I reckon some MAGA boys and girls were affected themselves. Will it make up their minds? Probably not. Sigh.
Some interesting history I didn’t know about:
> More than 80 years ago, in 1945, President Harry Truman introduced a plan for a national health system funded through payroll taxes. His plan would have covered medical, hospital and nursing care for everyone, creating a federal health insurance agency to pay the costs of care. But it also would have put health insurance companies out of business.
> Christian or not, Republicans in Congress, rebelling against anything that smacked of the New Deal, wanted no part of Truman’s plan. They were backed by the American Medical Association, which branded it “socialized medicine” and countered with its own plan, which relied on expanded private insurance and federal aid to fund care for the poor.
Wow, I didn’t know that Republicans have blocked us from having a national healthcare system for this long… here’s hoping 2028 is the year we finally change that, and we elect a President and majority in Congress that supports Medicare for All.
It’s a great system.
You can’t leave your employer or you risk losing your healthcare. And prior to ACA you might not be able to get new coverage if you developed any health history during your employment. So you were completely stuck.
You can’t be unemployed and have any level of basic coverage without having a way to pay for it.
Someone sets up shop in the middle of everything to collect rents.
There’s far more… but it’s really to benefit insurance companies, who serve no purpose, except to make profit by denying medical care. And other companies by providing an insurance desperate workforce.
Completely in line with Republican values.
Corporate profits are the low-hanging fruit of health insurance premium cost reduction. Moving to a national single payer health insurance system would capture those savings while expanding risk pools and reducing administrative costs on both the insurer and provider sides (Medicare and Medicaid both have lower overhead costs than any private insurers), two additional cost savings opportunities. It would also increase consumer choice in care providers, the real choice people care about. And it would put the government in position to actually negotiate reimbursement rates with providers and do so in a way that would be transparent, accountable, and fair(er) to all stakeholders.
Can someone explain to me why the AMA would have, and still is against single payer healthcare?? Also is the AMA who is blocking the number of Doctors in the US??
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And if it is broke, ignore it.
Unfortunately, this is bipartisan.
The American Medical Association lobbies hard to block reform.
And until the DNC starts rejecting money from the insurance lobby , private equity provider networks, the pharmaceutical industry, and corporations who pay below market wages as they benefit from healthcare being tied to employment, nothing will change.
Nearly all of the major donors to the DNC and individual candidates are directly opposed to actually progressive legislative changes.
Demand that your local reps stop taking money from for profit corporations and maybe we’ll eventually get real representation in DC. Until then we’re just the audience for the billionaire show.
I’m convinced that, barring some massive change in electoral fortunes and in the DNC, the only way our health care system will ever be fixed is if the entire thing just collapses which, as COVID demonstrated, would not take much.
Journalists, please do more articles like this. Not opinion pieces, but real articles stating the history of republicans fucking this country.
And they will continue to do so for as long as they have any power.
They don’t want people living past their ability to be productive. Every one who is alive and not working costs the oligarchs money.
Republicans hate the working class
It’s okay though because soon we’ll own Greenland!
Medicare should be a baseline if coverage with the age being reduced until we have universal system. We should ask why we have a for profit system.
Conservatives create barriers to a better tomorrow. Ghastly.
Healthcare should not be a for profit system and Epstein files.
Australian here with access to our public system (Medicare) and some private health cover (insert brand name here). A key difference between Aust and USA is health cover brands aren’t in bed with employers so my private cover isn’t connected to employment. It’s called private for many reasons.
Yea, i just digitzed some reel to reel tape from the 70’s and congressional meetings regarding health care. Depressing content to listen to with our current state of affairs.
This was also the start of the heaviest increase in lobbyists in the government. Health insurance companies are NOT in the business of taking care of people’s health they’re in the business of making money.
This aggression will not stand, man!
Republicans love exploitation
That’s correct. Republicans fight any and all legislation designed to help the American people. Always have for the last 5 decades.
Republicans have blocked us from having a functioning society and that is their goal. We just spend all our time looking within the rational side to hold them accountable. Its really one side and their cult of self-serving, cruel assholes that keep us from having a world worth building.
Much longer than that. FDR wanted healthcare as a human right. Medicare and Medicaid was just the start.
…. and half the Democrats too.
Not fully true, they did join Obama and help with his healthcare plan to make sure Romney had a role and without that we maybe don’t get ACA. Obama called it a starting point and Republicans have tried to kill it.
Funny, but it has been longer than that.
Universal healthcare was first brought to vote back in 1914 by pro-union members.
Some people are missing their flowers
These people have helped too
And Independents (Joe Lieberman) and mainstream democrats who loved guys like Lieberman like Biden who helped fundraise for the guy and would back him when he would take heat
More like the money behind the politicians have blocked fixing it. People need to realize both sides of the aisle are prone to this and the narrative of taking sides plays right into the plan. It’s the corporations and investors who are responsible for this.
We’re in this mess because a majority have been so brain washed and indoctrinated that they can’t figure out that paying $4,000/year in taxes for universal healthcare would be less than the $8,000/year they’re paying for health insurance right now.
Greedy selfish bastards.
There was never a time where Dems had enough votes to make the change?