Advantages Of Medicare For All
Illness is stressful. In America this is compounded by our complex and fragmented healthcare system. Medical bills arrive, often not itemized, and it can be difficult to get answers to the questions we have. Our insurance covered less than we expected and we now have medical debt. Job loss often results in loss of health insurance for our family. Doctors are frustrated by insurance denials and narrow drug formularies that restrict their prescribing. Employers must deal with inexorable increases in insurance premiums for their employees. Hospitals sue patients for collections to maintain their operational budgets. Unions on strike can lose their health benefits.
People in other industrialized countries don’t have these additional worries.
IMAGINE…
seeing the provider of your choice, agreeing on a care plan, and getting it without authorization delays.
Never receiving a medical bill again!
Never worrying about losing your health care coverage or incurring medical debt.
- Coverage from birth to death
- No comparing plans and weighing deductibles against premium payments
- No “underinsurance”
- No premiums, copays, deductibles
- Free choice of providers, hospitals
- No indecipherable billing statements from hospitals and insurers.
- No calling your insurer and trying to talk to a computer about your bill, or sitting on hold.
- No delays in care for authorization, insurance denials and appeals.
- No pharmacy delays when the drug your provider ordered isn’t covered.
- Second opinions are covered.
- Dental, vision, and hearing services are covered.
- Mental health and reproductive services are covered.
- Drug prices negotiated and covered.
- Long term care may be covered.
- Peace of mind that your family’s health needs will be met.
- Health costs will be less for most people, and more fairly applied through progressive, not regressive, taxes.
- No longer tied to any job because of health benefits. Your family is covered if you change jobs, are unemployed, or quit work to develop a business.
- No expensive COBRA payments.
- No medical bills. No ambulance bills. No medical debt or bankruptcy.
- No medical debt collectors or collection lawsuits.
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IMAGINE…
Practicing medicine as you were trained, without interference from third party insurers.
Triaging your patients based on need, and not insurance, knowing you will receive timely payments for all.
Never sending your patients a bill.
Never losing a patient to insurance changes.
- No authorizations, denials, appeals from insurers. No phone calls to convince insurance clerk that this care is indicated and justified.
- One formulary–no calls from pharmacy forcing you to change your Rx to an affordable drug that you have less faith in.
- No ethical dilemmas for patients who can’t afford tests, procedures, or treatments.
- No contracting with insurance companies.
- Private and small practices are now an option.
- More practice autonomy.
- One payer means savings from reduced billing staff.
- Faster payments.
- No “good insurance,” “bad insurance.” All patients can be seen and will be charged the same amount.
- No collections, patient bankruptcies from medical debt, no releasing patients from care for unpaid bills.
- Physician board to make decisions on coverage for new or experimental treatments.
- Decision making based on patient choice and provider recommendations and not what is affordable.
- Better preventive health with earlier diagnosis and management of health problems.
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IMAGINE…
No tracking and charging for every IV tubing, suture, or aspirin tablet.
No negotiating with multiple insurance companies.
No suing patients for unpaid bills.
- Global budget for a year, like police and fire departments. Lump sum to pay all operating expenses, based on averages of prior years.
- Marked savings in billing and administrative costs.
- Hospitals are built where there is community need and offer needed service lines.
- Stops the closure of rural and safety net hospitals.
- Stops the closure of low profit maternity services and emergency rooms
- Stops accelerating prices and costs.
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IMAGINE…
Everyone has access to health care and more preventive care improves community health.
Rural and safety net hospitals remain open in their communities
Maternity services are available.
- No more community fund raisers for unmet medical needs.
- More public health funding
- More focus on community health needs and social determinants of health
- Equitable and just–all residents have access to health care
- No one has insurance that providers won’t accept.
- No deductibles that delay care.
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IMAGINE…
Knowing all of your employees have access to health care and it is no longer your responsibility.
No time spent studying and comparing health plans for your employees
Cities have more money to spend on other services for their citizens.
- All of your employees, part time and full time, and their families, have health care
- Money saved on health insurance can go to other benefits or development.
- Business can be more competitive internationally when freed from health insurance costs.
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IMAGINE…
No strikes over health care benefits.
No loss of health care during strikes.
Can focus on wages and other benefits in negotiations.
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