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As someone fortunate enough to live in a country where healthcare is free from birth to death, I find the US system bewildering. I have fibromyalgia & take numerous medications for my symptoms. I worked out once how much my drugs would cost in the US - $1873 PER MONTH. Here, my medicine is FREE.

Pretty sure that will go bye bye.

I love that the same people who oppose universal healthcare have a Costco membership.

I'd be ok with 1 yacht.

Credit card companies will find these days very profitable.

In fairness the grubby wizard of "medicare for all" folly, Bernie Sanders, said that he had no idea what it would cost. And his half-baked bill never says how to pay for that unknown cost. So maybe people wouldbelieve you if said what they'll pay blabbing on about savings.

A different take - maybe having such wealth is an unrecognized mental addiction- society may have a responsibility to address addictions of various types. What else is this insatiable drive to acquire?

Truth

And not only does the US not have it, we pay the most for our healthcare and we STILL get the WORST outcomes of the 33 nations!

Keep fighting the good fight. Good luck from PA

Oh no! Only one yacht? lol Just wait until the time they find out they can't even own one politician, after we take the house and senate.

they paid off politicians so they actually get to get tax deductions with owning a yacht That shit needs to go.

I see! 👀

That is, "Medicare for All" is too far in the future to be an issue that makes an impact in midterms. Dems should be going full bore after a bill hated in part or in whole by 80% of Americans. "Direct pay" is a first step toward M4ALL that is realistic, immediate, and a way to bash the BBB daily

These numbers are a couple years old so probably need to Double the Amount 💯🎯💯🔥💯🤬

Won’t someone please think of the poor billionaires!! It’s astonishing for the rest of the world the way the US fights free healthcare. WHO wants to live in a society where a small accident or illness could bankrupt a family?? Hope the tide turns for ordinary Americans soon. ❤️

Having to look for a real job?

"A Yale analysis estimates that a “Medicare for All” single-payer system would cut U.S. annual health spending from about $5.2 trillion to around $4.2 trillion and avoid about 114,174 deaths each year" ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Ya, it is trillions. People will not digest how the American population has been getting fucked since the Nixon......So they might except one drink from a glassvat a time instead of the whole fire hose. Doesn't even go into copays or meds. Cheers

Correct, a trillion: bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Sounds great to me.

The study builds on findings Galvani, co-author Meagan Fitzpatrick, and other colleagues published in The Lancet in 2020, which projected that universal health care would save $450 billion and more than 68,000 lives annually. The price of human life is determined by occupational lifespan.

The godless politics of greed and redistribution. Not here in America!!!

Forget about the 40 trillion the Us is already in debt .. Or that fact that the currently ‘ free’ Medicare Part A that seniors have paid into for decades is facing insolvency by 2026 per KFF - and will no longer be free .. but let’s add 261 million to the 80 million seniors🙄🤦‍♀️

I have. It's S 3822 and it has some excellent provisions.

Those are separate questions. Do most physicians support M4A? Probably not, though many do. Is AES aware of PE's impact on health care? I'd imagine so.

I worked at an FQHC so my NP student loans were paid in full by the National Health Service Corps. In return, in exchange for me working part time at our local FQHC for four years. I ended up staying for 18 years, as I loved providing care to the underserved and marginalized. She could do it too!

Go look up why from the MD perspective- U.S. doctors face a major crisis with Medicare because inflation-adjusted reimbursement rates have dropped roughly 33% since 2001, threatening independent practices and patient access.

Sounds good by your fellow Md’s apparently disagree with you - since they DO Not support Medicare for all …🤷‍♀️ AMA has publicly said what they do support…

Can we eat them?

Respectfully I disagree. It doesn't have to be implemented all at once. Each year the retirement age could be lowered one year. Work with @MarkCuban and his @costplusdrugs.com to eliminate #PBMs & lower the cost of drugs. Stop allowing #BigPharma to sue keeping generics off the U.S. market.

Better that ordinary people go bankrupt is it

The gov't can lower the mandated MOOP, and also make it means tested, for example. They can make it easier to deduct medical expenses from our income taxes too. They can make insurance payments tax deductible above a certain amount as well. There are numerous options out there to help.

You are the clueless one that would rather see people die because the insurance companies denied their claims. People going bankrupt trying to survive. Insurance CEOs making millions. For profit insurance needs to stop. As a hospice volunteer you should see that.

Sadly, insurance execs have to settle for being multi millionaires. They, along with those billionaire healthcare providers, all profit off of peoples' health issues. We need fewer people standing between doctors and their patients. Most other modern economies have figured out a way to do this.

Don’t forget if we all have access, there’s one less military recruiting point as well

I have had one job in my life that came with insurance. Now I’m retired, lost my obamacare & have to pay for mental, dental, vision & meds. And rent. And utilities. And car insurance. On $1200 a month.

COBRA is $2800 per month, more than double my mortgage, and we had not touched the $5000 deductible because I had just hit a year

Remember a few years ago people were getting laid off because of a pandemic - and losing job based health cover in the middle of that pandemic

Dude I’m all for insurance company professionals to kick rocks and find new fields.

😭😭

Republicans mantra “we can’t afford it” and “fiscal responsibility” fall on deaf ears. After Trump got us to 40 Trillion in national debt including a senseless illegal war with Iran that costs us Billions and Billions people are waking up to see we’ve been lied to all along by the oligarchs

Im curious. How do they stop non hospital users abusing the parking? I live near a big teaching hospital in SW London. Parking there is £££. But if it was free, out of towners would use it as a free park and ride to go in to the city.

The nhs has its flaws definitely. But the US system as an alternative (as touted by many) would be horrendous. My dad & both in laws have had cancer in last 5 years. All diagnosed & treated within weeks. All survived. Our personal nhs experience has been fantastic. If they’d had to pay…. 🤷‍♀️

There is no single official percentage NHS diagnostic error, but research estimates that misdiagnoses affect about 5.5% (or 1 in 18) of patients (BMJ, 2023).

Can you cite a source for that number? I'd like to read it in proper context, because this number frankly seems absurd.

I have to get drugged up so my wife has to accompany me and drive me back home, otherwise I would just take public transport.

I tried to talk my family into moving there in2023, I’m so pissed

… must be nice