Here’s the bill.
S.1129 - Medicare for All Act of 2019 It was a big topic of debate between the progressive candidate, the author of the bill, and the rest of the neoliberal candidates in the Democratic primary held in the United States. Some candidates offered token support, most candidates equivocated or aligned with the industry’s current system of for profit health services
There have been many good research publications showing how the current system produces thousands of unnecessary premature deaths, bankruptcies and poor outcomes while extracting twice the costs per patient as our peer countries.
Those are secondary concerns for some. Political ideology and identifying with Ruling class interest have blunted their curiosity to its proposals.
It was scored by various interest parties beyond CBO. Most notably By the Koch sponsored Mercatus Center examination that found it saved 2 trillion over 10 years.
Asterix aplenty and caveats as well, they confirmed it would shave 2 trillion with 38 trillion projected spending over 10 years.
Some will drop their monacles at the cost others will gas light over it. None these types really knows how much Americans would spend over that time frame under current arrangements.
It would also have the additional benefit of relieving fear and debt off the public’s back and freeing those resources from medical debt to productive economy spending.
My congressman has a medical debt collections company he runs out of the building his property management company owns that his congressional district office rents space next door to.
No, he’s not in favor of M4A. That’s big government.
Yes, he voted on the CARES act that gave 5 trillion dollars to the equity money markets, back stopped the ETF funds, transferred bad debt From liquidity markets onto the government books, etc..
He’s doing the right wing ‘man of the working class’ schtick. It works too.
Apparently, it’s not socialism, or confusing or hard to understand when government socializes losses of private capitol markets and the small minority of people that benefit from this arrangement.
M4A, on the other hand, is socialist (FUSW) confusing and government intrusion by these same people, the media they control, and the people who identify with their interest and repeat their propaganda. A survival instinct for the latter, I’m guessing.
