Health care “reform” has been a vehicle for the continued 40-year wealth transfer upward.
Republican reform offers a multi-million dollar annual windfall to the richest, with decreased benefits and increased taxes to those with low-income.
Washington D.C. reform for decades has been built around the most cost-inefficient model — multiple commercial insurances that optimize their bottom lines by increasing premiums, co-pays and deductibles while limiting benefits and provider networks, thereby shifting costs and risks to the insured.
A single-insurer modeled on traditional Medicare provides the most sustainable, comprehensive universal health care coverage. It would provide first-dollar coverage, eliminating co-pays and deductibles, and reduce overhead costs, saving up to $500 billion annually – enough to cover the uninsured and fully cover all underinsured.
Contrary to the political right narrative, Medicare is not “socialized medicine” – insurance by nature is “socialized.”
Traditional Medicare insures full choice of private or public providers, whereas commercial insurances do not.
Michele Swenson
Durango
