Sorry Jimmy Dore, Medicare For All will not work

From a fan on the inside of the Medical Industrial Complex

The first thing people will be wondering is, which side am I on? If I’m against “Medicare For All”, I must be a right winger.

Real quick, I voted for Obama in 2008. I have been voting conservative ever since the “Affordable” Care Act tripled my health premiums. BTW, private insurance stock rose by a factor of 10 since the passage of the ACA, $50/share to $500/share.

I started working in health care in ‘94. It was an industry back then, but nothing to the extent it is now. HIPAA passed in ‘96, which is a right to medical privacy. More on that later.

When I bought a private therapy clinic in 2007, I learned a couple things about insurance. Private insurance will screw you for profit. Government insurance may screw you out of incompetence. Both have issues. I used to receive checks for 1 cent from one private insurer. I hung them in the waiting area.

When I was struggling to receive payments from both sides, I wasn’t thinking about the morality of universal health care. I just dealt with the constant denials.

Jimmy, you have helped open my eyes to the morality of universal health care. Of course this should be a right. I no longer doubt that, even as a conservative voter. We can argue the semantics of “insurance” vs health care, but it’s the same thing.

In Medicare, there are various “caps” or limits that go in and out of political favor every few years, to “save money.” In current fiscal policy, that phrase it utter nonsense.

You have also opened my eyes to the fact that we can “afford” what ever we want, considering how much we spend on the other Industrial Complexes.

The problem is shear volume of patients to providers. The medical system cannot handle all the customers. There are many places in the country where you will wait hours for emergency medicine. A percentage of the population does not try to help themselves stay healthier, and we are now actively making more excuses. I’m not perfect either, and never have been.

There has always been a shortage of doctors and nurses. Since the vaccine mandates, that shortage has grown to unmanageable proportions. The amount of red tape, paperwork, bureaucracy, and liability also prevents us from seeing patients faster. Liability for some, not the government.

Many people get angry when you are against forced vaccinations for health care workers (or anyone, shouldn’t matter who you are.) I would like to explain it this way.

If I ever force a patient to do anything, or do not explain informed consent, or violate their rights to privacy, I will lose my license.

Why are we not afforded the same rights as the patients? As soon as you forced me to do something medically, I became a patient.

I suppose we could “fix” the problems by decreasing red tape, recruit more providers, and decrease the educational burden. Physical Therapy was a 4 year degree 30 years ago. The Educational Industrial Complex made it a doctorate level requirement. That system has leveled hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt onto the students. The 4 year PTs I’ve worked with are just as good as the PhDs.

Everyone should have health care. That is attainable. I am skeptical that our politicians will fix the problem.