Reich posts Yale study on Medicare for All, igniting healthcare debate
Social media erupts over survey showing 92% delayed care due to costs and estimates Medicare for All would save $1 trillion annually.
What to know
- Survey data shows 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to costs; Yale study estimates Medicare for All would save $1 trillion annually and over 114,000 lives.
- Commenters overwhelmingly criticize the current U.S. healthcare system as profit-driven and argue it contradicts claims of being pro-life.
- Multiple personal stories shared of medical avoidance due to unaffordable costs, with long-term health consequences; commenters contrast U.S. system unfavorably with universal healthcare in other developed countries.
- Discussion centers on tension between healthcare industry profits and public health, with some arguing the savings from Medicare for All should come from insurance company profits.
The dispute Whether universal healthcare is economically feasible vs. the ideological and structural barriers preventing its adoption in the U.S. · positions read across 181 posts and comments
U.S. healthcare system is fundamentally profit-driven and unethical, prioritizing billionaire wealth over life.
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“The Healthcare system in America isn't about Healthcare, it's about exploiting virtually every American to funnel money to the filthy rich pedophile executives and insiders.”
bigheadtales.bsky.social · Bluesky
Universal healthcare is economically beneficial and morally necessary; the cost argument against it is false.
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“It costs the country more to let people die and suffer. Let. That. Sink. In. It costs more.”
michiel3282.bsky.social · Bluesky
Personal experience of avoiding or delaying necessary medical care due to cost burden.
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“17 years ago I broke my ankle, it was swollen and bruised but because we could not afford our deductible I did not go in and have it properly cared for. The end result is that I have had ongoing pain and swelling for 17 years.”
quiltlovinlisa.bsky.social · Bluesky
The U.S. should follow the model of other developed countries that have successfully implemented universal healthcare.
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“As a single mom of two, in Canada, I think I paid à grand total of $150 in 25 years and that was for the meds, also subsidized by taxpayers.”
pinkear.bsky.social · Bluesky
“17 years ago I broke my ankle, it was swollen and bruised but because we could not afford our deductible I did not go in and have it properly cared for. The end result is that I have had ongoing pain and swelling for 17 years.”
quiltlovinlisa.bsky.social, Commenter · Bluesky · Aug 23, 2:16 PM
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What people are saying 24 voices from 1 site · best of 181 · verbatim
- Why does the U.S. have higher healthcare costs and worse outcomes than other developed nations with universal systems?
- What specific barriers prevent Congress and Democrats from prioritizing Medicare for All despite polling support?
- Would implementing Medicare for All actually reduce overall costs or simply shift them to taxation?
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Your winner 🏆 for worst president in our history.
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The GOP is Pro-Billionaire, not Pro-Life.
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I used to work at Legal Aid in law school. My main role was assisting with Chapter 7 and occasionally Chapter 13 bankruptcies. The most common reason people were there was medical debt, typically accumulated because of some catastrophe when they were uninsured or poorly insured. Our system is evil.
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And if we were pro-life we stop supporting Israel's brutal genocidal slaugher.
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The US is not ‘pro-life’. The US, under the GQP, is late stage, unbridled, unrestrained, grab the money now, capitalism. This economy is only built for the hyper wealthy. No one else does well but the billionaires.
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Medicare for All would also help level the playing field for small businesses. Employer-based health insurance is a competitive advantage for big business that we’ve somehow mistaken for capitalism. Compassion gets the votes you already have. Dreams get you the ones you don’t.
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It costs the country more to let people die and suffer. Let. That. Sink. In. It costs more. Remember that every single time this topic comes up. Climate is the same damn thing. It costs more not to deal with it. Don't fall for the reality distortion.
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The $1 trillion would come out if the coffers of United Health Care and other health insurance companies.
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Trump and Republicans: Sorry, no money for your grandma’s groceries or healthcare and let's drive gas prices through the roof. And: Let’s spend billions of your tax dollars blowing up the Middle East. They can always find money for war, just never for you.
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My son got stung by a bee last night - his lip swelled up hugely & I was so scared but I’m paycheck to paycheck with insurance so I’m so grateful he didn’t need the ER but I also know if he did it would hurt financially & that makes me mad that this country doesn’t have universal healthcare like EU
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Americans will never have affordable healthcare or healthcare for all. For profit healthcare was instituted so that billionaires could continue to control our healthcare. They would prefer the old and poor to die so they can pocket their benefits.
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The USA is pro profits. Right now it cares about nothing else. Mining park lands, poison food, predatory tariffs that bankrupt farmers, Healthcare, and just about anything else the oligarchy can sell at an exorbitant cost. Including your own data.
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The Democrats need to get their shit together prioritize single payer. Too many senators deep in pocket of the health insurance profiteers
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The Healthcare system in America isn't about Healthcare, it's about exploiting virtually every American to funnel money to the filthy rich pedophile executives and insiders.
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Everyone I know has avoided delayed healthcare, & some of us right now.
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TBF, universal healthcare is so terribly complicated that only every other first world country on the planet has been able to figure out how to make it work…
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Republicans aren't "pro-life" but "pro-money".
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I don’t think saving lives is mentioned much in Project 2025.
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Translation of Pro-Life: "Women stay in our control." That's it. It has NOTHNG to do with caring about the health of pregnant women, mothers, babies or families.
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But then that trillion dollars wouldn’t be safe in some billionaires bank account, it would just be out in the wild, circulating and helping communities.
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Instead, they're deporting healthcare workers.
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As a single mom of two, in Canada, I think I paid à grand total of $150 in 25 years and that was for the meds, also subsidized by taxpayers.
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Let's reduce the $40T national debt by investing in universal healthcare!
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A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.