r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 11d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/YYC-Fiend 11d ago

What about the share holders? WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE SHAREHOLDERS?

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u/StressBaller 11d ago

Been holding UNH stock since 2012. 38yrs old and could retire now if I wanted to. Please think of guys like me before you comment. lol.

All jokes aside, it’s too big to fail. Bunch of scumbag companies.

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u/the_ikandor 11d ago

It is already failing. No one is paying their medical bills (not even the rich), ACA caused a bunch of high deductible plans to go to market so few can afford testing beyond labs, people who should have been caught by the med system are putting off screening until it’s almost if not too late. And the hospital systems are suffering too. Small independent hospitals are being swallowed up by large conglomerates and then noping out, leaving whole towns without hospitals.

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u/insertwittynamethere 11d ago

Hehe the people who have health insurance under the ACA weren't getting tested regularly beforehand. The ACA at least made a lot of base tests free or included in your insurance as well as affordable co-pays as compared to just nothing.

That being said, get rid of the middlemen. Payers and providers of service and care. No profit margin for middlemen. Profit for the providers? Understandable.

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u/fiduciary420 10d ago

This is why it is so imperative to teach children that their only actual enemy is the rich people.

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u/Imallowedto 10d ago

Rest in piss, Joe Lieberman!!!