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
21.5k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

43

u/effdubbs 13d ago

I don’t know if this claim or its math are accurate. What I do know is this: US healthcare is in crisis. I’m a nurse practitioner and I have never seen turnover like this before, especially of physicians. The workload and environment are untenable. Systems are crumbling, yet money continues to be extracted. Patients and workers are not getting what they need.

Another thing I know, patients wait here too, sometimes for over a year, depending on the complaint and specialty. The argument to keep our system as is because patients wait in single payor systems is simply not a good one.

8

u/IbegTWOdiffer 13d ago

Do you believe paying nurses less would somehow ease the staffing issues? The argument against a single payer system like in Canada, is valid, has always been valid, and always will be valid. Healthcare sucks in Canada. Wait times are terrible for anything other than acute care. Pay for providers is low which is why you get a lot of immigrant providers from places like India, where as in the US you get immigrant providers from places like Canada...

18

u/erydayimredditing 13d ago

Show me something supporting your claim like everyother idiots claim that Canada has longer wait times than the US. Not just that there is wait times. YOU HAVE TO SHOW THEY ARE LONGER THAN THE US. And you can't, because wait times for the non elite or wealthy are just as bad here.

This claim is tiring

0

u/akmalhot 12d ago

No they are not lol