Greedy corporations are profiting off Medicare (Advantage plans) now. The only reason to advocate for "Medicare for All" instead of universal health care is to keep insurance companies in business.
I got fired by both my therapists when I went on Medicare. I now have to pay for vision, dental & mental health and rent and insurance and transportation and clothing on $1100 a month. Medicaid covered all of that before I turned 65. Fix that first.
It would save a lot more than that, based on the experience of our peer nations, who have much smaller consumer bases and far fewer resources. To say nothing of the turbo boost in entrepreneurship and productivity we’d experience with the freedom it would allow our citizens and small businesses.
Better than the current system, I agree. BUT. Not the same as universal health care. Still dealing with paying premiums, copays, coinsurance, gaps in coverage with Medicare. The only advantage to Medicare for All over universal health care is keeping insurance companies in business.
Politicians are corrupt in every country, but in the U.S. they're as bad as those in third-world countries: they're bought by all the big companies, whether they're pharmaceutical companies, coal companies ("clean energy" said Trump), the gun lobby, and so on. This is so nauseating.
That seems unfair to many politicians in '3rd world' (ie developing or underdeveloped) countries, who may be sincere but challenged by averse situations/conditions not of their making.
