r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d 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/MoneyGrapefruit1000 13d ago

Is this similar to how the ACA was going to make healthcare affordable without making people change their doctors? Because that didn’t happen for most of us.

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u/slayer828 13d ago

The aca was gutted by Republicans and democrats owned by the Healthcare corporations.

Look at the original draft vs the final one.

Money is the problem and always was. Take money out of medical care and the problems will shrink.

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u/timemoose 13d ago

Democrats had the votes to pass whatever they wanted. No Republicans even voted for it and it still passed.

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u/dontaskdonttells 13d ago edited 13d ago

Pretty sure Joe Lieberman blocked it similar to how Manchin/Sinema blocked recent bills.

The public option was initially proposed for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but was removed after independent Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman threatened a filibuster. As a result, Congress did not include the public option in the bill passed under reconciliation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option#:~:text=The%20public%20option%20was%20initially,the%20bill%20passed%20under%20reconciliation.

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u/timemoose 13d ago

Without getting too far into the details, I'll just point out that he's not a Republican.

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u/contemplativecarrot 13d ago

not a Democrat anymore either