Author: Jamila Headley and Nicole Jorwic
Source: truthout
Publication Date: October 8, 2023
Link: Medicare Is in Desperate Need of Modernization and Expansion — Not Privatization
The United States, the richest country in the world, has a healthcare system that ranks 69th in the world, according to the Legatum Institute based in London, and yet it is nearly twice as expensive per capita ($12,914) than the far superior European healthcare systems which cost per capita between $6 and 7,000. This is entirely the result of the corruption of the Republican members of Congress, who are bribed by the illness-profit system corporations to maintain this criminally inferior system. You can stop this by voting for Democrats. The Democrats have many flaws, but they do support fostering wellbeing. We need a universal birthright single-payer healthcare system like those of Europe.
For 58 years, Medicare and Medicaid have provided life-saving and life-sustaining care for millions of Americans, but they are rapidly being weakened by politicians who insist on inviting corporations to oversee their implementation.
Health insurance companies are creeping into Medicare and Medicaid via so-called “managed care.” Often proposed as a cost-saving measure, managed care is when patients agree to visit only certain doctors and hospitals, and the cost of treatment is monitored by a managing company. Here in the United States, these companies are often corporations focused on maximizing profit at the expense of patients.
Gary Bent — a man who spent his entire life faithfully paying into Medicare — was just one of the millions of patients who have been denied crucial care because of corporate intrusion into the administration of Medicare benefits.
When Bent finally became eligible for the Medicare benefits he paid into, his employer placed him […]
