• snooggums
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      You just have to be extremely poor and old to get it.

      That isn’t what universal means.

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          In this case words matter, and universal is not synonymous with government run. Universal healthcare means available for everyone. If it isn’t available for everyone, it is not universal.

          Government implemented universal single payer is the best implementation based on every civilized country.

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      Medicare is hugely broken and barely works even for those who are eligible. You still need to get private insurance (called gap insurance) for many, many things.

      When I had to switch from BCN to Medicare after I became fully disabled, one of my prescriptions went from $200 a month to $3500, and I started getting denied for routine tests. I was denied a heart cath my cardiologist ordered. I’ve had to stop 4 of my prescriptions because of cost, which of course has made me even more sick.

      Even in some utopian daydream, that’s nowhere near ‘universal healthcare’, and expanding that broken system is not a solution.

      eta: The US needs actual universal healthcare that’s not inexorably tied to privatisation.

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      or be elected to Congress, senate or President of the US.

      (I wonder if Dependstm are covered?)