Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Biden:' 'He's been talking about Medicare for all for 35 years. Nothing's happened..' [View all]OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)they currently have, to move to a system that is not costed and not fleshed out. And people who can afford private healthcare are probably the same people who vote.
It will create a lifeline for Trump and Republicans to create massive fear in the lead up to November, despite them being the evil one.
There isn't healthcare for all in every other country, just varying degrees of it, depending on what they can afford. Living in a country that has a public health service, there are many issues with waiting lists for surgery, the annual trolley crisis where the sick spend days on hospital trolleys because there aren't enough beds available in the wards, often because there aren't enough step down facilities available to take in the recuperating elderly. We have a private healthcare too, and if we didn't, there'd be chaos. The one thing that was brought in a decade ago was "community rating" which means private healthcare companies can't cherry pick the young, to the exclusion of the elderly.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided