Medicare For All - The Kucinichian Proposal

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Medicare For All - The Kucinichian Proposal

Medicare For All - The Kucinichian Proposal

The Kucinich plan would be a government-run program that eliminates private
health insurers, and buys prescription drugs in bulk at a cost of $2.2 trillion a year
once fully implemented by 2013. In order to pay for the program, Kucinich proposes
a 7.7 percent tax on public and private employers, and removes $245 billion in business
tax deduction.

Awesome!
Kill the bureaucracy by using the power the government.
Why didn't I think of that?

The fact of the matter is, though, when you consider that the current health-care system,
which is market-based, excludes so many people from health care, when you understand
it's 41 million Americans don't have any health insurance, millions more who have health
insurance can't get the kind of services they need, this health care system is failing most
of the country.

Actually a democrat that knows about the common problems faced by ordinary working
people qualifies as a news story in itself. Watch this, he knows the facts about the situation.

Today, Americans are paying for universal health care. They're just not getting it.
They're not getting it, because insurance companies are guaranteed to be able to
jack up the price of health care with the paperwork transactions they have. You
know, with the handling of Medicare, about a 3 percent cost for administration,
the private sector, the cost of administration is something like 18 percent, which
means that there's a massive amount of money that's in that system that is taken
out as profit that can in effect go to the benefit of the health of the nation, and
that's what my plan will do.

There's much more in this interview, if your interested.