Without Medicare for All, the Healthcare System Will Collapse – Wendell Potter RAI (7/7)

1. I’m so disappointed that there are so few people who’s conscience’s don’t move them to stand up to industries who profit from suffering.

2. Backdoor eugenics in action. The elite don't want M4A because that would keep the little people alive for longer, when we've got an environmental collapse and mass automation on our doorstep!

   In the long-term calculus of concentrated wealth and power, most of us will soon be obsolete "useless eaters." How dare we insolently propose to reform the system and tax the wealthy, when the 0.1% are planning on transitioning the world to a lower population?

   The gall of these needy little peasants! If we deserved health and wealth we would already have it! There is no God but money, and Ayn Rand is its Prophet. The crumbs we get from the masters' tables should be enough for us…

   /s. But I have no doubt that's how many of the wealthiest and most powerful think.

3. News for everybody: the healthcare system is collapsing already. Most hospitals are in a perilous financial condition and it is not just the small rural hospitals closing down or merging out of the system. Big hospitals, esp. in central urban areas, are in trouble and closing in some places.

4. Private health insurance would have worked just fine forever if not for one fundamental problem: human greed. And the more popular M4A becomes, the more panicked the health industry gets and they ramp up the greediness instead of dialing it back to save their own asses. Yes, there will be a collapse of the industry. But it won't be because of progressives burning down their house. It will be simply a matter of disgustingly rabid and unchecked greed on the part of the industry, to the point where even the most right-wing anti-socialists out there will see through the bullshit talking points and demand a better system. It will be pretty hard to be patriotically furious at the encroach of socialism when half your family is dying simply because you can't afford to see a doctor.

5. Socialism for the 1%, poverty for everyone else. Who owns our nation's wealth? Capitalism says the 1% (or maybe we are all equal just some are more equal than others). Democratic Socialism says we all own the nation's wealth equally. I thinking socialism isn't that bad. Medicare for All. It will save your life.

6. Very informative.

7. 3:40 public option distraction from the prize: #MedicareForAll, which wasn't truly on the table during ACA. 6:05 insurance companies just money-sucking parasitic middleman. 7:22 Canada/Tommy Douglas fought medical associations, doctors for their #MedicareForAll. 11:26 non-profits go profit starting late 80s, Anthem picks up various BlueCross BkueShield operations. Some non-profits have for-profit subsidiaries.

8. Plus kennedy was pushing for Medicare for all, just before he was assassinated.

9. Bankrupt the useless, parasitic HMOs and insurers! Their corrupt bureaucracy actually, effectively decides if you will live or not, now. I would trust the Medicare for All personnel much more.

   The corrupt, self-serving critics of Senator Warren's Medicare for All
   proposal are full of baloney, to be polite. We have the most expensive
   healthcare costs in the world.

   Our ludicrously expensive healthcare is also not among the best and deprives huge numbers of Americans of any care, or limits their care to profit HMOs and AMA
   supporting doctors, or results in Americans becoming grossly indebted or
   bankrupt to pay for medical costs. Some pregnancies with a cesarean
   section in California result in medical charges of upwards of
   $250,000!!!!

   IT WOULD BE HARD TO MISMANAGE MEDICARE FOR ALL SO
   BADLY AS TO ENABLE ITS COSTS TO EVEN APPROACH THE CURRENT LEVEL OF
   COSTS, WHICH IS SO HIGH DUE TO AMA AND HMO LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION OF
   OUR POLITICIANS THROUGH BRIBES (e.g, political contributions to enable
   them to get cushy jobs)! It would frequently be cheaper to transport
   some sick person to Canada or Paris, house them in a luxury hotel the
   whole time, and have them treated there than it is to treat persons
   poorly through HMOs in the USA.

   The AMA has kept down the number of doctors and to a lesser extent, the number of nurses, emigrating to the USA. The test to become a licensed medical doctor here requires a
   level of English proficiency that is not truly necessary for most
   doctors.

   Skilled surgeons in particular could perform their
   surgeries and have translators help them speak to patients. The same
   applies to skilled radiologists. We have only to open the doors by
   relaxing immigration laws (and what immigrants would be more beneficial
   to the USA than more medical doctors) and there would be a flood of
   foreign doctors and nurses immigrating here and driving down medical
   costs.

   If we desire, we can enable them to become nurse
   practitioners and only later become MDs, when their English is fluent.
   Similarly, as an attorney experienced in tax matters, I can certify that
   the richest 5% of Americans, and many of their corporations pay ZERO
   taxes. Merely requiring them to pay taxes and imposing a windfall
   profits tax (to recoup the taxes that they have evaded paying since the
   early 1980's when they benefited from Reagan's trickle down economic
   baloney, which his own expert, David Stockman saw as nonsense) or a
   property tax, would pay for Medicare for All.

   The AMA has ensured that laws are kept stringent, so that the number of doctors immigrating
   to the US and becoming accredited is artificially low. The HMOs have
   imposed ludicrous administrative costs, wasteful procedures, experts in
   denying coverage by harassment of patients or doctors (to avoid paying
   them or discourage expensive treatment) and invented fees.

   Just by getting rid of the parasites running the HMOs and insurers, whose
   profits are IMMENSE, which is clear from their stock prices and earnings
   report, we can pay for Medicare for All. Furthermore, the drug
   companies often take research funded by the USA and commercialize it to
   sell drugs at outrageous prices to gullible Americans: if all government
   funding to universities came with strings and those included low prices
   to sell drugs created with US government funding to the Medicare For
   All Plan, those savings would be ASTRONOMICAL.

   The next time that the cronies of the HMOs or insurers or AMA or corrupt, bought
   Republican/Republicrat politicians desperately invent lies to allow US
   healthcare costs to keep increasing each year, tell them where to put
   their baloney and lies! See https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/03/why-are-americans-paying-more-for-healthcare. See https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/. See
   https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878

10. Bankrupt the useless, parasitic HMOs and insurers! Their corrupt bureaucracy actually, effectively decides if you will live or not, now. I would trust the Medicare for All personnel much more.

    The corrupt, self-serving critics of Senator Warren's Medicare for All
    proposal are full of baloney, to be polite. We have the most expensive
    healthcare costs in the world.

    Our ludicrously expensive healthcare is also not among the best and deprives huge numbers of Americans of any care, or limits their care to profit HMOs and AMA
    supporting doctors, or results in Americans becoming grossly indebted or
    bankrupt to pay for medical costs. Some pregnancies with a cesarean
    section in California result in medical charges of upwards of
    $250,000!!!!

    IT WOULD BE HARD TO MISMANAGE MEDICARE FOR ALL SO
    BADLY AS TO ENABLE ITS COSTS TO EVEN APPROACH THE CURRENT LEVEL OF
    COSTS, WHICH IS SO HIGH DUE TO AMA AND HMO LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION OF
    OUR POLITICIANS THROUGH BRIBES (e.g, political contributions to enable
    them to get cushy jobs)! It would frequently be cheaper to transport
    some sick person to Canada or Paris, house them in a luxury hotel the
    whole time, and have them treated there than it is to treat persons
    poorly through HMOs in the USA.

    The AMA has kept down the number of doctors and to a lesser extent, the number of nurses, emigrating to the USA. The test to become a licensed medical doctor here requires a
    level of English proficiency that is not truly necessary for most
    doctors.

    Skilled surgeons in particular could perform their
    surgeries and have translators help them speak to patients. The same
    applies to skilled radiologists. We have only to open the doors by
    relaxing immigration laws (and what immigrants would be more beneficial
    to the USA than more medical doctors) and there would be a flood of
    foreign doctors and nurses immigrating here and driving down medical
    costs.

    If we desire, we can enable them to become nurse
    practitioners and only later become MDs, when their English is fluent.
    Similarly, as an attorney experienced in tax matters, I can certify that
    the richest 5% of Americans, and many of their corporations pay ZERO
    taxes. Merely requiring them to pay taxes and imposing a windfall
    profits tax (to recoup the taxes that they have evaded paying since the
    early 1980's when they benefited from Reagan's trickle down economic
    baloney, which his own expert, David Stockman saw as nonsense) or a
    property tax, would pay for Medicare for All.

    The AMA has ensured that laws are kept stringent, so that the number of doctors immigrating
    to the US and becoming accredited is artificially low. The HMOs have
    imposed ludicrous administrative costs, wasteful procedures, experts in
    denying coverage by harassment of patients or doctors (to avoid paying
    them or discourage expensive treatment) and invented fees.

    Just by getting rid of the parasites running the HMOs and insurers, whose
    profits are IMMENSE, which is clear from their stock prices and earnings
    report, we can pay for Medicare for All. Furthermore, the drug
    companies often take research funded by the USA and commercialize it to
    sell drugs at outrageous prices to gullible Americans: if all government
    funding to universities came with strings and those included low prices
    to sell drugs created with US government funding to the Medicare For
    All Plan, those savings would be ASTRONOMICAL.

    The next time that the cronies of the HMOs or insurers or AMA or corrupt, bought
    Republican/Republicrat politicians desperately invent lies to allow US
    healthcare costs to keep increasing each year, tell them where to put
    their baloney and lies! See https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/03/why-are-americans-paying-more-for-healthcare. See https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/. See
    https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs-4064878

11. Switzerland and Japan do it, with a lot of private insurance.

    tinyurl.com/sickroundtheworld

12. Wealthcare-versus-Healthcare
    Let us look towards the root and the prevention of !! The number of cancer cases has astronomically increased in the past 25 years. With that being the case what has changed in our environment ? Could the air we breathe laden with chemicals sprayed from planes be a contributing factor?? Most days I watch planes painting our sky sometime the chem trails are so dense the sun can barely be seen.
    Could it be Fluoridation of our Potable Water? Fluorine or the chemical equivalent in most processed foods and drinks could that be harmful??
    Monsanto now trading under a different name altered the genetic makeup of some of our most prominent grains, vegetables and fruits.
    These altered crops can survive being sprayed with herbicide's ((poison)) that in turn feed people, cattle, pigs, chicken and even fish from the runoff . Could this be the Cause??
    Then we have the amount of sugars ingested average of 63pounds every year . This has skyrocketed since 1963!!
    I believe it most important to find Cause and Correct!!!!
    I have little confidence in Big Pharma or the F.D.A. in finding a cure!!
    It is NOT IN THEIR BEST INTEREST TO FIND A CURE!! NO PROFFIT!

13. Lobbyist Buy Democrats and Republicans !!! Two Sides of the same old coin!!!¡
    Most of us have Two Hands ! Makes it easier to lift a brother a sister or your mother!! Now with one!! What would you do?? How would U even tie a shoe?? A true leader knows these things! Takes Two Hands (Together) to Tie the Strings!! Will take both (all) sides and meet in the middle!! Now to learn to play the fiddle le do dah day!!
    First how are the elected selected?? It appears the nominee must be very wealthy or a willing  puppet for the corporations!!
    A qualified  candidate  selected for and by the people? Please teach us how anyone could compete without billions or even trillions??  Elections-are-Bought
    Could a candidate campaign on (reining) in these multinational corporations?  Complete restructuring our backwards system? Insuring the people's rights of remedy over Corporations!
    Add a comment../or/ Just don't care?

14. When I was growing up in Canada, we were taught that Communism was Negative, Socialism was Positive and Liberals are a Political Party……..I Emigrated to The States and quickly learned that AMERICAN CHILDREN are taught that Socialism and Liberalism are forms of COMMUNISM.

15. Canada is socialist and their health system has already collapsed.

16. As long as you even leave the smallest toe hold for private you will have private.

17. Love the video illustration.

18. If it is war the insurance companies want, then it is time to declare war on the insurance companies, enemy of the people, drain on society.

19. the united states is just a big fat central bank scam, its open border wil make it impossible to enforce socialism

20. Are all Americans brainwashed and stupid? Socialism is the enemy of the super rich and is a friend of the poor and middle classes.

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