Interview with Wajahat Ali on Universal Healthcare
Wajahat and I share our respective stories of our daughters surviving life threatening illness while overcoming the crucible of obstacles from insurance corporations
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Tonight I joined fellow writer and father, Wajahat Ali, creator of the excellent substack newsletter titled
, to discuss universal healthcare.We debunk the myths surrounding universal healthcare, share our respective stories about how each of our daughters survived life threatening illnesses, the financial and mental strain of those struggles, and ask a very important question: Will the killing of the UnitedHealth CEO force billion dollar corporations to reevaluate their exploitative practices?
Click below to watch our discussion, and my answer to that question. Be sure to comment, follow, and subscribe to Wajahat’s writing as well.
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Two of my favorite people!
Good. 1) We spend double what real countries spend. 2) Our results are worse than many (and not just to the disadvantage of minorities. 3) We don't insure everyone, and with the private insurance model, deductibles prevent even insured people from having access.
The commonest cause of personal bankruptcy in this country is and always has been an inability to pay medical bills.
And other critically important value in having "Medicare for all," "single payer," or any similar term is that that one payer has great power to beat down costs. "You want X number of dollars for such-and-such? You can't have it. You'll get Y number of dollars."
In this country, we have a medical industry. It is not a health care system, and it commonly has little to do with caring for anyone's health. Like the jaw-dropping question of whether providing treatment is a sustainable business model. Man, has the way been lost.