My understanding is that the proposal is a progressive tax, so it depends on how much you make. Most people will be paying less than they do now for private insurance and deductibles, and they won’t have to worry about getting fucked over by insurance companies who have every incentive to deny you care.
I work for a vein center; I can state categorically that insurance companies are miserable to deal with. Our providers have to take time out of their day to have peer-to-peer consultations with insurance company physicians to get approval for procedures. They’ve have us talk with pediatricians to discuss complex vascular issues in the venous system that they have no training in. In some states, insurance companies are capping how many veins can be treated for venous reflux disease to 2 per lifetime. Only certain veins are covered. We never have these issues with Medicare patients. They will cover newer and better procedures that private insurance denies.
Private health insurance is a disaster. No other major country does it this way. We’re paying twice as much per capita and getting worse outcomes because we have middle-men that siphon out revenue from our system into their pockets, they create administrative overhead, and intentionally build-in hurdles to jump through and inefficiencies that slows down the process.
By decoupling healthcare from employment, it makes our businesses more competitive, allows for more startups and innovation, greatly reduces bankruptcies that have large costs across the economy.
@gondwanalon “If you are interested in crushing our capitalistic system then “free” Medicare for all is a fast way to do it.”
Maintaining the status quo will cost us EVEN MORE. We can’t afford NOT to do universal care. It’s actually MORE RADICAL to say that we should pay 2x per capita, not cover everyone, generate lots of loss in the economy through medical bankruptcies, stifle innovation and make it harder for companies to start, have worse health outcomes, less efficiency, all so we can fund middle-men who act as parasites on the healthcare system. Medicare for all is more fiscally conservative than the status quo.