US healthcare ranks last

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Bernie Sanders: It’s time for the US to guarantee healthcare to all

Today, we spend almost twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other country on Earth. According to the most recent data, the United States spends $14,570 per person on healthcare compared with just $5,640 in Japan, $6,023 in the United Kingdom, $6,931 in Australia, $7,013 in Canada and $7,136 in France. And yet, despite our huge expenditures, we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a human right.

The result: some 68,000 people in our country die each year because they can’t afford to go to a doctor when they should, and more than half a million Americans go bankrupt due to medically related debt. In the US today, 42% of cancer patients deplete their entire life savings within the first two years of their diagnosis while one out of every four declared bankruptcy or lost their homes to foreclosure or eviction in 2022.

For all of these reasons and many more, I am proud to be re-introducing Medicare for All in the Senate. My colleague, the representative Pramila Jayapal, is introducing this same bill in the House.

Our legislation would provide comprehensive healthcare coverage to all without out-of-pocket expenses and, unlike the current system, it would provide full freedom of choice regarding healthcare providers.

In fact, the congressional budget office has estimated that Medicare for All would save Americans $650bn a year.

Comprehensive coverage. Huge savings.

No wonder MAGAs hate it.

 

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Attention, Barack: If you do health care reform, and the health-insurance companies are still in business afterwards, that is how you know you did not do it right.

 

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And here's the solution.

 

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The constitutional authors knew the progress of weapons from swords to guns. They probably knew there would be many more advances in military technology when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. I doubt they expected a steep decline in fitness, when most Americans would be too unfit to defend the nation.

That has nothing to do with this. Affordable health care will not make everyone fit for military service and there is no reason why it should -- the Armed Forces have enough physically fit recruits, and there is no future in a militia-based defense system. It will only make medical treatment more accessible to everybody,

 

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Attention, Barack: If you do health care reform, and the health-insurance companies are still in business afterwards, that is how you know you did not do it right.

This bears repeating. Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill is expressly designed to put them out of business.

Michael Moore was right: When discussing health care reform, the health insurance companies are the enemy and should not have a place at the table.

 

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Seniors struggle to pay what Medicare doesn’t cover, because our healthcare system is designed to separate Americans from every dollar they have.

A growing number of retirees, like Morton, are grappling with healthcare debt due to medical bills. Medicare, which provides health insurance coverage to more than 66 million people, covers the lion’s share of the cost of medical care, but not all.

On average, a 65-year-old who left the workforce last year may need $165,000 in savings to cover out-of-pocket healthcare expenses throughout retirement.

“I'm at a point now where I can't keep my house because the bills are much too high,” Morton said. “I'm trying to decide what I'm going to do.”

‘Murica!

 

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Everything in the US medical industry is designed to work against the interests of patients. Exploitation is the goal, not healthcare.

 

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A new video about healthcare by an American now living in the UK. Worth watching.

 

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A good editorial about the difference between US and Australian healthcare costs.

Sorry, America, but it’s not Australia’s fault that your healthcare system is failing you