Our Country Will Work Better With Universal Healthcare

I want you to know that we spend twice or more what our peer industrialized nations (35 of them) spend on healthcare. They have better outcomes, longer lives and way fewer avoidable deaths per capita. That’s because everyone in those countries has preventive care and can go to the doctor without declaring bankruptcy. They all have universal healthcare of some sort. H.R. 1 reduced government spending on healthcare by $1 trillion. But it did not address the problems that cause that massive price hike. One of the ways that H.R. 1 sought to cut cost was to deny Medicaid to survivors of domestic violence with a pending or approved application for lawful status under the Violence Against Women Act, refugees and asylees, survivors of trafficking with a pending or approved T visa, members of a federally recognized Indian tribe or American Indian born in Canada, and others. This particularly cruel punishment for some of the weakest and most abused among us and does not address the root cause of the problem. That problem is caused not by too many patients, but by a system that has placed commercial entities between patients and doctors whose goal is to maximize income and they do it by delaying and denying care. The Congressional Budget Office 2020 report found that anyway that Universal Healthcare was implemented in the U.S. we would save (in 2026 dollars) $750 billion/year. I also want you to know that there are 551 bills in the 119th Congress that talk about healthcare. Most address minor issues and are bandaids on a system that is bleeding to death. Enough. If you want to save money then implement universal healthcare, like HR 3069 or S. 1506, Medicare for All. Public insurance paying private providers. I recommend you read the text and then get it to a vote, because 62% of Americans, according to the Gallup Poll want you to make sure that ALL AMERICANS HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE.