Why Americans don’t demand healthcare reform in Presidential candidates’ agenda if it is so unaffordable? The government has the power to ban companies from selling chips to China, but they can’t build public hospitals for common people and put a price ceiling on drug prescription?
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It isn’t unaffordable, for profit healthcare and corporate greed are the only things standing in the way, every other developed nation has universal healthcare and they all pay less than the US for comparative procedures.
American people often do demand this of their representatives.
The problem is that the medical companies that make a lot of money by having the current health care system contribute quite a lot of money to presidential and congressional campaigns.
As a result, representatives will listen to their donors rather than to the people that they are supposed to be representing.
IMO US healthcare is as fcked as gun situation. You can’t control something that is already out there.
The only solution for US healthcare would be total ban of private companies from providing any and taking it all under government, because it’s a huge business with thousand % profit margin. Government can try to regulate prices but for such “small” country and so many states with so many different laws it will be insanely costly and their debt already is in stratosphere.
Because we only have two parties that are both capitalist, so the one party that would fight for that is still going to design it to make corporations happy. That way they can be like “universal healthcare!” during campaigns, then the other side is like “no that’s communism” so they switch it up to “okay $300 healthcare” and pretend it’s a win.
The short answer is that, regardless of democrat or republican in charge, CEOs own the USA. The USA is an oligarch dictatorship. It had a semblance of democracy, but that’s pretty much gone now.
And with the oligarchs in charge of healthcare, they have no desire to bring universal care, and around 1/3rd to 1/2 the population have been brainwashed to convince themselves that they shouldn’t pay more taxes to cover healthcare, while at the same time going bankrupt several years later because they no longer have a job in their retirement years and can’t pay for cancer treatment.
The same reason pharmaceuticals are exempt for the new tariffs
There are plenty of hospitals already and Obama administration enacted the ACA where if one makes over their states Medicaid limit in income then their high monthly insurance premium is substantially subsidized.
https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/what-is-the-affordable-care-act/index.html
For instance I have full coverage for only $83 a month last year but stated I’m going to make more this year so now it’s $200 a month so it goes on a sliding scale upon one’s income. My prescription drugs are covered in my plan.
Now if one makes below their Medicaid maximum income then they qualify for that and everything is covered.
Last year $80,000 was paid by my ACA plan and the year before $40,000 was paid by Medicaid due to hospital and outpatient care.
So you see everything is just fine. Unless one is making more than Medicaid maximum and doesn’t have any insurance.
So the object being is to understand the insurance situation and get yourself on a ACA plan when open enrollment occurs at the end of the year or on Medicaid. However in certain circumstances you can enroll at other times of the year.
The whole object with the ACA is that they want you to start paying something and not necessarily the whole whopping $2000 a month most full plans charge.
The thing with the ACA is one HAS to file their income taxes because the subsidy is a tax credit so if you wind up making more than you stated you have to pay some back or more next year obviously. The system is designed for flexibility in annual income amounts. The thing is now health care is affordable.
Healthcare is the best way for sociopathic con men and grifters to steal. They won’t allow us to kill that for them.
U.S politicians are bribed by pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and healthcare providers to maintain the status quo in order to maintain the high profits of their syndicate.
Are you mistaking the US for anything other than a Corptocracy?
(“now improved with added fascism!”)
USA: by the corporations, for the corporations.
They can. They just won’t.
Because a lot of Americans don’t want universal healthcare. They want cheaper healthcare for themselves. Two different things.
A lot of us do. Regardless I understand out of context it’s unaffordable but over 90% of Americans have health insurance
A big chunk of people would rather suffer than allow ” Commie policy ” pay an “undeserving persons” health care bill.
The problem is the American people have lost the ability to effectively fight our government. We don’t source our own food anymore. We need a he government for energy and clean water. Our lives are subscriptions and the American government is the one billing us.
Fixing our healthcare system is hard. We’ve tried.
You’ve been sold, your lives have been monetised
Somewhere around 90% of Americams have coversge through their work and about 80% of those ssy they ate hsppy with their plan.
So for the majority of Americans it isn’t a major issue at election time compared to other issues like immigration, wages and inflation.
The same people who voted for the orange maniac are against universal Healthcare because they’d rather suffer themselves than have anyone else get a benefit they “don’t deserve”.
Americans are easily fooled into thinking that they are victims of something, such as “those people” wasting their taxes and resources and living a good life on their labor. This means they cannot have government subsidized healthcare because someone theoretical could be abusing it.
Politicians have exploited this desire to be a victim to this day. Until Americans know that they have the wealth and influence to literally change reality, and use it responsibly, we will never have universal healthcare
That wouldn’t extract value out of the populace for rich donors. Think of the rich people will you? Because they sure as fuck aren’t thinking about you.
American media is controlled by big business, which is controlled by the wealthiest people. Many Americans are brainwashed to believe that communism is the greatest evil, which isn’t that far wrong, but Here’s the fatal flaw in America: Many people think that if communism is bad, then the opposite of communism, plutocracy (rule by the rich), is therefore the greatest good–even though it’s glaringly obvious that plutocracy isn’t much (if any) worse than communism. Getting rid of all governmental controls on corporations is the current regime’s goal. That’s plutocracy.
The middle ground between the two is where the most prosperous, healthy and happy people in the world are. America is so far towards the plutocratic side (the political right) that even our most liberal leaders are barely in the center between left and right. Bernie Sanders, for example, if right about dead center between left (communism) and right (plutocracy).
Every problem plutocracy creates, the far-right media blames on being too far left. We move further to the right, things get worse, the propagandists blame the left, and the cycle repeats.
There’s also a huge problem with the psychopathically religious right, which suffers the delusion that allowing women to have abortions, gay people to get married, and transgender people to be acknowledged, violates their rights.
America is absolutely fucked. The worse things get, the more the nut jobs will blame the left, and the more right the US will go, making things still worse.
Money. The government are paid… sorry…lobbied by companies to keep making money.
America voted for a failed narcissistic billionaire- why would he do anything for anyone?
Because they have been (incorrectly) led to believe that it’ll mean they have way higher taxes and will be paying more overall
because we can see canada from here
Obama promised to fix it with “Obamacare” and made it worse
STOP with this question! You’re making too much sense!
During the “Obamacare” hearings in Congress, the insurance industry was spending 6 million dollars A DAY pushing stories like “death panels” the funny thing is that, we got death panels, well not actual death panels, because the decisions are being made by Ai, rather than actual humans but the results are the same.
The “higher taxes” is the funniest part. Because Americans pay double the OECD average for healthcare and receive developing nation health outcomes, unless they are really rich.
America subsidizes the world’s medicine. Development of these drugs costs a fortune, so instead of the U.S. covering this expense, I suggest we spread it across all the first world countries that use it.
One of the problems with the “American Dream” is that everyone hopes to be well off. And don’t want to have to pay more “when they make it”.
Also there is a high resistance to pay taxes… and socialist ideas are the devil. There are lots of steps from socialist ideas to full blown comunism, but anything that is not 100% capitalism seems bad. Why??? Don’t have an idea.
At least is what we perceive here in europe.
We’re not “united” in America.. We are filled with all the isms (classism, racism, sexism, etc.), and most people here believe they are better than others or are more deserving. We fight about EVERYTHING! Every little got damn thing.
Because the rich people are whiney little babies who believe in free market capitalism, but think having to compete in free market capitalist system where the consumers have a choice to buy from a public entity that can control cost, isn’t fair to them. They call it picking winners and losers.
If they don’t have to compete, they are automatically the winners. It’s still picking winners and losers, it’s just, they don’t care anymore because they are the winners now.
I wish the US was as organized as French citizens and all the workers would just shut the country down in protest until we get what we want.
Two words: Healthcare Industry
The industry is poised to profit by $820 billion by 2027.
That buys a lot of congress….
Obama recognized this and included their collaborations in drafting the ACA.
Biden reached a deal to cap medication prices on some of the most prescribed Medicare drugs. Trump rescinded it via EO
We also have the worst maternity outcomes in the developed world.