Private health insurance as a rule serves no purpose except to make money for private health insurers. It is a leech on the very system it claims to serve. #Medicare4All
Here is a sobering reminder of how insurers have rigged the game as we enter tax season: NEW: A whopping 60% of @AnthemInc's ~$137 billion revenue came from the federal and state taxes Americans paid last year. wendellpotter.substack.com/p…

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I get it ... So all this tax payer money that's going into Health Insurance "profits" ... Could be used to help fund Medicare4All
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Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.❤️❤️ It matters that you don't just give up.👍🏻 🙏
Replying to @marwilliamson
SO TRUE.... I challenge anyone name one person in any private health insurance company who's job is there to heal someone? They are simply clerks adding self-serving paperwork and complexity, jammed in-between patient & doctor doing nothing to heal. Let us buy medicare instead.
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Was anyone really under the impression that private health insurance companies were there to serve us, as opposed to make money?
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The voting public needs to make a choice between a National Public Health System that does not allow competition, or one that does but does not wreck the system through competitive pressure.
The much worshipped "free market" has not, does not, and will not supply healthcare to everyone, because it is more profitable *not* to. Health "insurance" is a racket that takes advantage of this fact. #MedicareForAll
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Pretty simple: the cost of premiums minus the cost of care = profits. Increase premiums and decrease care maximizes profits.
Plus we must get regular Medicare to cover vision, dental, hearing so folks stop handing their Medicare over to insurance companies. Medicare advantage plans are commercial insurance plans.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers says, simply, "for-profit healthcare insurance is immoral."
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After thirty years we are stuck at the same spot-all the problems have been identified so there isn’t a lack of solution but lack of will to lower the cost.