Enrolling in Medicare For All (M4A) instead of private investor-owned health insurance is like buying wholesale vs retail. M4A eliminates the profit and multilayers of costly administrative bureaucracies of private health insurance.
M4A would:
* SAVE us roughly $1.04 TRILLION/YR
* SAVE roughly 114,000 lives/yr
* Cover EVERYONE in the US for LIFE
* Cover ALL costs for ALL medically needed services (outpatient and inpatient)
* Cover ALL prescriptions
But Medicare At 50 (M@50) will NOT eliminate investor-owned middlemen, so...
M@50 would:
* COST taxpayers roughly $50 to $180 BILLION/YR MORE than now
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* Cover a maximum of only 60 Million more individuals
* NOT COVER the 226 Million under age 50
* NOT COVER the full cost of premiums, deductibles, copays, and prescriptions
* Give even more taxpayer money to the private for-profit health insurance industry via Medicare Advantage plans
* Divert focus, time, energy, and money from the movment to pass M4A.
Lee Stanfield
East side
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