Medicare Is the Solution, Not the Problem - Robert Reich

[Bozita]

Medicare Is the Solution, Not the Problem
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
23 July 11


Not only is Social Security on the chopping block in order to respond to Republican extortion. So is Medicare.

But Medicare isn't the nation's budgetary problems. It's the solution. The real problem is the soaring costs of health care that lie beneath Medicare. They're costs all of us are bearing in the form of soaring premiums, co-payments, and deductibles.

Medicare offers a means of reducing these costs - if Washington would let it.

Let me explain.

Americans spend more on health care per person than any other advanced nation and get less for our money. Yearly public and private healthcare spending is $7,538 per person. That's almost two and a half times the average of other advanced nations.

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[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. LINK:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/23-0

[Bozita]

4. Thank you.

Had to run an errand and forgot to double check my own post.

[defendandprotect]

2. K/R -- of course it is ... MEDICARE FOR ALL -- !!

[ejpoeta]

3. it might reduce costs, but it would reduce profits. we can't have that.

[MedicalAdmin]

5. No it won't. It won't. It won't. It won't reduce profits.

Yes, physicians and others in sane countries earn less gross, but the same or more net. In reality, by cutting out the average of 3 insurance billing drones Orr doctor in the USA, we would steamline costs and allow doctors to focus on patients rather than insurance forms, preapproovals and denials.

But I sense you already get that and are just being ironic.

[ejpoeta]

6. I was only referring to insurance companies and not doctors or anyone else.

I am FOR medicare for all single payer system. I hope i did not seem like I was not. I was being sarcastic.

[MedicalAdmin]

7. As was I. Cheers and thanks for being on the right side. N/t