It is similar the only difference is Medicare is just a Public Insurance System the government pays the bills and thats it. All hospitals and doctors offices remain privately ran and operated. The government doesn't own the hospitals and healthcare workers are not government employees.
Brad Kohl It still sounds essentially a private health care system with bills paid by the government.. quite a bit different I think but maybe just as good.
@@richardwalsh8148 absolutly every American is covered no one is out its free at point of service! I would personally like a National Health Service like England where all hospitals are nationalized but this is just as good!
Throughout my healthcare career I’ve barely met but a few elders who DON’T HAVE to use Medicare. Eventually for US ALL we’ll be faced with a choice between retiring or switching to per diem employment to keep our health insurance. DO NOT FORGET THIS
Healthcare is the main issue the Democrats need to pursue in 2020. We need Medicare for all to be the main talking point in any debate. Let's make America healthy again!
me to but became disabled and learned the hard way just having Medicare won't cut it . you should look in to a Medigap plan at 65 to cover it all with no copay's . you end up spending about the same buying a Medigap plan over paying copay's and a monthly premium for the advantage plan if i was 65 id buy one . I can't because I'm 62, an get this> with per existing condition because it's secondly insurance till I'm 64 . it seems there is a loop hole that lets the ass hole insurance turn you down with per-existing condition as long as it's secondly insurance till a few months before 65 at 64 .
@@harryhightower I used Obamacare until 65. I was too disabled to get a job, but I'm not disabled enough to qualify for disability. Unfortunately, I used my credit cards to live on because I had used all my 401k to continue to live in my apartment looking for a job for over 2 years. Now I'm hounded by bill collectors because social security doesn't afford me paying for food if I have to pay my credit cards.
@@tinoyb9294 I don't pay extra for the plan and my medication is free by mail. I also only pay a small copay at the doctor's office instead of having to reach my deductible before Medicare pays.
Marcus Perriello Hopefully you’re at least 35 years old already. I highly doubt that high school student running in 2016 would have even had a chance to become president at all, even if he was for one of the 2 big political parties. He was way too young. Also, you better be prepared to raise hundreds of millions of dollars if you are running for president. Even if you were running for either branch of Congress, you would still need to raise tens of millions of dollars or more.
@@grahamturner2640 I'm 38, and I'm running for Congress in Virginia. I don't take corporate PAC money, so I'll never beholden to corporations or wealthy elites. Winning on small-dollar donations is difficult, but the major difference is I actually have a highly Progressive platform and will be talking to people about it. It's one thing to raise millions of dollars; it's quite another to have actual substantive issues and sound ways to address them.
I'm glad you finally addressed this topic Rob, but this definitely would have been much more useful if it came out earlier when mainstream media had been doing their best to try and counter it.
"I'm glad you finally addressed this topic Rob, but this definitely would have been much more useful if it came out earlier when mainstream media had been doing their best to try and counter it." A whole LOT of points would've been more useful, if mentioned earlier on, but it's mainly HINDSIGHT that's '20/20' (or at least, better than present-day perspectives). But, with the correct actions taken from here on, the goal may not be hopeless. It MUSTN'T be.
After payign this amount for 45 years of work The current tax rate for social security is 6.2% for the employer and 6.2% for the employee, or 12.4% total. The current rate for Medicare is 1.45% for the employer and 1.45% for the employee, or 2.9% total
For ALL the reasons outlined in this video, a Medicare-for-All health care system is an absolute MUST! Perhaps with the cooperation of the Powers That Be, it'll be a reality - ASAP!
The thing that people don't understand is that medicare for all wold be good for entrepreneurs because they wouldn't have to worry about health coverage for themselves if they leave their current job to try and start a business and they wouldn't have to worry about finding a plan to cover their employees. people could work more if they had preventative care and thereby be more productive. Medicare for all makes economic sense.
As an entrepreneur I pay half of my employees payroll taxes, to include Social Security and Medicare. If we increase Medicare spending Medicare taxes will have to be increased. Meaning that I will have to pay more taxes per employee for Medicare.
@@woodchuck003 in Denmark we dont have specific healthcare taxes. Healthcare is simply a part of the regular tax rate, there is nothing extra to administrate, there are no employer contributions, coz that is also part of ur company taxes. And no, our company taxes arent that high, in fact both the OECD and Forbes rank us as the 6th best country in the world to start a new business, several places ahead of the US. In addition, no1 has to be concerned about money or about not being able to get proper care. Every1 is covered 100%, whether for a check-up at the local doctor, or for ur 3rd bout of cancer, there are no limits. It is possible to have a system, that takes care of every1 without giving u extra work or extra costs. All, it takes, is the will to achieve it.
@@dfuher968 this is a perfect response to my question about you countries military spending. You are currently at 1.3%, you are not fulfilling you NATO commitment. We send 4 times more in GDP which equals billions of dollars more due to economy size. Which means that since your country relies on my country for military defence in a way my tax dollars are subsidizing your healthcare. If your country didn't have a defence pact with the US it may need to reallocate some funds.
It has never made sense to me that your healthcare is tied to your job. I know the history of it, but that's history. We need to evolve into something that works better.
I’m for Medicare for all. I talked to a buddy of mine in Ontario and he swears by the healthcare system in Canada. After watching a lot on RUclips and researching online.
Don't strive for the Canadian healthcare system. Strive for a better one. Sincerely, a guy who went to the hospital trice and was 2 times dismissed with some simple medicines. Then came back a third time with a burst apendix in 1.5 weeks time total
Education is the key. Maybe develop a panel to find new ways to get this message out to those who truly do not understand how this works. I've been for this for years.
The US government currently spends about the per capita on healthcare as developed countries with universal/single payer healthcare, so in theory this could be achieved without any tax increases
@@NotHPotter Apologies for barging in. You are correct of course. But we are not dealing with fiscally responsable conservatives. Vested Interests have distorted the political process to the point where the process no longer works for the people nut works for those interest groups. i have heard another arguement. Single payer health insurance requires registration of the whole population and this makes gerrymandering difficult.
Thank you Robert Reich. No more smoke screens, no more lying, no more cheating, no more excuses, we need to just make this happen. It is doable. Every other industrialized country in the world has better health insurance than we do.
I'm a middle class Canadian I've had two minor surgeries, two C-sections, and have had one of my children hospitalized for three weeks with very serious drug resistant pneumonia. All we had to pay for were drug prescriptions, most of which was covered by our employer insurance program. If we were Americans, we'd be bankrupt!
All the other first-world countries have some variant of single-payer health care. They all pay a lot less per head for it, *everyone* is covered and they get better outcomes overall. A healthier workforce is a more productive workforce. Preventive medicine results in better health and fewer sick days. So three reasons in its favour: it costs less, it covers everyone and it has better results. Any one of those reasons alone ought to be sufficient. Whether on humanitarian or economic grounds, there's no reason not to have it. I live in the UK where we have such a system. I live in one of the parts of the UK where medicines are *free.* It *can* be done. It not only doesn't break the bank, it costs less. It's a no-brainer. Unless you're making a lot of money with the system the way it currently is. And have the best politicians money can buy.
Simple logical facts. I hope more people can open their minds and see that this is a win win for all. Less work for better services. What's not to like. Thanks Robert R.
Having lived and worked in Canada, New Zealand and Switzerland I too know and fully support the introduction of some sort of system of single payer healthcare - and in all the countries I lived in it is a different setup. My two comments are 1. in all nations with single payer healthcare they control costs in many ways but an important part is the practice of only paying for evidence based medicine. This means that the latest and glitziest treatments are not paid for until and unless they have been proven to be meaningfully better than older standards of care. This does limit the choices available and I'm not sure that many Americans with their 'me me me' attitude will be prepared to accept this 'rationing'. 2. In all other nations they sharply limit the medico-legal industry which is a major reason for high costs in the US. The practice of so called 'defensive medicine' is rife and pushes up costs. Its also the case that insurers rarely go to court to contest claims because its so expensive to do so. The result is a medical insurance culture that accepts that payouts are just 'part of the business' and they make the costs up in the fees they charge. Insurers and doctors all have lots of lawyers on retainer to 'settle' claims. The vast majority of these are not actually medical malpractice or misadventure but unfortunate medical events that are accepted as possible complications. Payments for these accepted 'side effects' would not be allowed in other nations except in the context of needed rehabilitation. The US medico-legal business is so huge that stopping this cash cow will be fiercely opposed.
Tied into part of the problem in the US is the legal _industry_ here. You're absolutely right that it's a significant reason that our medical system costs us so much. But suing and being sued is a for-profit business for lawyers and it's run rampant here. And one of the worst parts about it are the fees the lawyers charge, often reducing any sort of settlement to a fraction of what it might otherwise be for the client, and accumulating to massive fees for the loser in addition to the fees from the loss (you'd have to pay a million or so dollars, plus the million for the lawyer, for instance).
@@Caitlin_TheGreat - I think that you may have heard of the term "Just Us" System. The AMA, our "American Medical Association" was NOT started by physicians, but by financier JP Morgan and his minions(associates). Good call on the lawyers, this is why Shakespeare said "First thing we do, kill all the lawyers." I don't think that all lawyers are bad, but the system, which is set up to favor them and protect them, is prone to misuse and being abused. And the original comment is right - they'll fight - a lot more fiercely than for guns - if any person or organization tries to change the current system.
I'm a recipient of Medicare for my disability so in the beginning I was against medicare-for-all but not the video I changed my mind I'm going to post it on Facebook so everyone in Facebook can watch this and make notes
We have former Senator Joe Lieberman, from the Great State of Aetna, to thank for getting rid of the public option during the debates in the run up to passage of the ACA. We have the Republican's blind hatred for all things Obama to thank for doing their best to undermine the law. Vote for the people in 2020 who promise to enact Medicare for all.
I support Medicare for all. However, I think it is fair to say that many of those healthy people that are presently insured, will see their premiums increase. That is the price we should pay for humane care of all our citizens. By claiming that our premiums will go down, we are undermining our credibility. Thank you for your dedication and informative videos.
The bulk of the cost for healthy people is those administrative fees. You are paying some of those fees even when you don't use your insurance. The cost of adding in the remaining uninsured (spread out across all those already insured), minus the decrease in administrative fees for all is likely to be neutral, or even a very small reduction for healthy people.
@@broddr I appreciate your point but I am not sure that I agree with your premise that the bulk of the costs to insure healthy people are administrative. The reason for our overpriced health care system is a systematic problem not solved by a single solution. My point was that we were told by most promoting the Affordable Care Act, that the premiums would go down for everyone and that proved not to be the case. My point is that when we promote inaccurate estimates, we could be hurting our cause. Thank you for commenting.
William Graf -- any insurance plan includes shared risk costs. My point is that the existing shared risk cost for healthy people would only increase by a percent of two by bringing in the relatively small population still uninsured. But changing to Medicare, with
William Graf, Im from Denmark. We're not depending on any insurance plan or any insurance payments. We pay through our taxes, and Reich is correct, our healthcare is consistently just under half the price per capita of ur cost in the US. The only way, some1 would pay more for Medicare for All, would be, if they dont have any insurance right now. Added to that, we have unlimited coverage for life with no extra costs. No cost to see a doctor, no cost to go to the hospital, no cost for mental care, no cost for rehab, no cost for any tests etc. Our only co-pays are for dental (still heavily subsidized) and prescription drugs (also heavily subsidized with a pretty low yearly cap), which are already much cheaper, coz when the pharmaceutical companies want to sell their product here, they have to negotiate with the state. In addition, we have several other health related rights also paid through our taxes. Such as guaranteed sick pay, home care assistence if needed, free handicap aids and grants to cover the difference in cost between a normal car and a handicap vehicle to mention a few. Ofc, our system isnt perfect, no system is. But I would still take it over the US healthcare system without hesitation.
We all want one payer, everyone I know or have spoken to. Thank you for your video, amazingly there are still people who do not understand what this is. If the politicians really mean to give this insurance they would be more informative and direct. Doesn't really seem much push toward this.
@bulletsholes Your analogy doesn't even work right. Medicare for all does nothing to change the providers, it changes the billing. You still have DHL, FedEx, UPS, and the Post Office, you can go to any of them but the government pays the bill.
As an addiction doc I think we should link Medicare for All into our current epidemic. There is an urgency to the opioid epidemic and a huge lift would be Medicare for All that would understand preventative care > late stage care which would funnel $ to early childhood to prevent drug addictions in the future. Additionally, all patients with current severe substance use would have insurance allowing for improved access to medical and psychiatric care. These are just some of the examples how Medicare for All would help improve the response to the opioid epidemic. It has the long term of the people in mind, while private insurance focuses on long term of the business not the individual people.
Rob, I want Medicare for All! I live in Des moines Iowa and work with people who have disabilities and mental health illness, and our state is in crisis due to privatized medicaid supported first by Branstad, and now Kim Reynolds. This has drastically hurt our state in so many ways. Due to medicaid privatization the most disfranchised among us are loosing benefits, quality of health care, daily living support, and rehabilitation. I have one client stuck in a wheel chair, whose recently declining health and memory loss is becoming a safety risk, but under privatized medicaid she does not qualify for the support to keep her out of harms way. I have another client that is one more police interaction away from ending up in jail due to his schizophrenia symptoms. Privatized medicaid was supposed to "save" Iowa so much money, create and better quality of care, and provide more choice, but it has not fulfilled these promises. Now, due to the lack of preventative measures especially with those who have mental health issues Iowa is seeing an increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, ER's are full, and people with mental health illnesses are being incarcerated. This puts financial strain on law enforcement and medical facilities which cost a great deal more then having preventive measures through community support agencies who teach rehabilitation, independence, and skills. I myself, working in this field have not received a cost of living increase or raise since Iowa privatized medicaid. Our company as a whole was one of the many lucky ones who has not shut it's doors due to the industriousness of our leaders and their successful plans for diversifying, but we do not have the ability to any longer provide competitive pay if we are to keep our doors open, and now there is a revolving door of people with very little experience in this field. I also have medical bills, myself, for routine illness and laboratory fees that I am unable to pay. I am proud to be one of the few I know with an excellent credit score, but as medical bills pile up for things like strep testing, blood work, and routine dental care, I worry greatly about my finances. The cost for prescriptions has went up this past year for myself and many others. I want Medicare for all, but the response from most Republicans when you talk about this change is one of fear. They think these are socialist ideas (or communist ideas) Democrats like Bernie Sanders scared people away with these ideas. I want Trump out of the White House, but can we really win 2020 with a Progressive Democrat, or would a Moderate Democrat have more luck moving into office. The things that keep me up at night! I'd love to hear your thoughts on what type of Democratic Candidate would have the best chance for winning in 2020. Keep up the videos!
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Pedro De La Torre really? What else are human rights? Food, clothing, and shelter? Wi-fi? A smart phone? Where does it stop? At what point do I not have to pay for your crap any more?
@@chaist94 you have it wrong my friend. I'm not asking you to pay for anything I may use regarding healthcare. What I am saying is that WE all pool our money and care for one another. Much they way we do not with out police, fire and transportation departments. Food should also be a right. Thankfully my kids never had to go hungry. My siblings and I did. Not because my mother was lazy or shiftless, we were dirt poor and if it hadn't been for the kindness and generosity of some, I don't know what my fate would have been. So yes, I'm asking you and every American to come together and ride above whatever division you feel exist between us. The false narrative that others will succeeded at your expense must be eliminated. Think of it this way, if you get fully funded healthcare through taxes, and I get healthcare the same way, how are you paying for me without me paying for you?
Pedro De La Torre that sounds like a great idea, except for the part you left out, where we all give a chunk of our income to the government to redistribute as they see fit. What a terrible idea. I trust the private insurance companies more than the government.
@@chaist94 then we'll have to agree to disagree on this. No hard feeling as this is what makes America great, we can differ on politics but we will defend our right to have it. Best of luck to you. 😁
I am a typical disabled Medicare recipient who sees a doctor four times a year I pay for my prescriptions separately and another plan and I paid over $1,600 a year. Factor in the $600 premium my husband pays because I was married when I got my Medicare and now we are at 2200~ You know what I get? Nothing more than the average healthy person! Three doctors a year and outpatient short visit and it was a rough year maybe for visits. I’m OK with the fact of what people are like me and they will collect lots of profit even with people who got pre-existing conditions. When you pre-existing conditions don’t mean squat for how much you care is going to cost. My condition is managed with generic medications to treat it. No expensive treatments no surgeries no procedures no one usual test. It just is. This will totally work 100%
Healthcare for profit doesn't work. It's sad we are the last developed country that doesn't provide healthcare for it's citizens. Thank you for this excellent video.
@@TheEverydayProgressiveShow you are correct it is not the complete government structure of socialism. But it is socialist policy. It is social welfare.
I don't have any private health insurance and went to see a doctor this week to have an infection treated, the total cost to me was $0... Oh I also live in Australia.
Medicare for all, should be implemented ASAP. I and my co-workers, do NOT go to the doctors, unless it is a emergency. The co-pay and the $5000.00 detectable takes away any money you saved over the year. I would be better off, with a bi-monthly "savers account" and drop insurance all together. As insurance get more and more expensive, I think more people will drop insurance.
I know the Canadian system first hand. It has its pluses and minuses - and the minuses are far more than just wait times. But if you are poor/lower middle class...it is FAR better than the U.S. system. So I hope America allows medicare for all who need it but also allows private healthcare for those who don't.
Yes, all that the professor says is true, but then it would be very difficult if not impossible for members of Congress to shake down money for their campaigns from the health care industry, and that's the only thing that matters.
Medicare currently has a huge supplemental market. If Medicare is extended to all, the private supplemental market would just be expanded, so insurers would have no real cause to complain or oppose the expansion. And US employer costs would drop so the US would have even more international competitiveness that is now enjoys.
When it comes to costs, with Medicare for All, the government will have the power to set the reimbursement rates for drugs and services and thus lower the cost of care even more.
Looking at the American health 'care' system, I heave a sigh of relief that I live in a civilised country with free healthcare for all regardless of wealth. The American system is a profit centre for hospitals, insurance companies and investors: the actual sick or injured person is way down the list.
Americans get high cost medical services & worse care with for-profit plans. Medicare for all plans offer cost effective coverage without reducing excellence in care.
I had planned to go to the "Market Place" for insurance. As it is open enrollment but the book keeper for my employer told me publically I was bound to the group insurance or the company would receive a penalty It ends in May. So in spite premium remained removed from my paycheck. Sounds like bullying to me. Consider this. When the office had someone die on this insurance, have knee and back surgery get hospitalized and deliver several babies. Does that sound promising? I don't believe this is ethically correct or legal. Perhaps I need correction in my understanding. After all the premium is 1/4 of my monthly income. Anyone else have similar issue??
Providing healthcare shouldn't be a for-profit business. And we subsidize education for so many STEM fields, we should subsidize doctors! Any kid who is smart enough, ambitious enough, and has the grades to get into med school should be able to go! We need more doctors anyway.
I think it would be great for us. The only down side I see is there are 500 thousand employees in the healthcare Insurance industry that would all be unemployed. Plus until we get money out of politics I don't think anyone in Congress would ever let it happen. Lobbyists are paying them millions to make sure it never happens. So for those reasons I doubt it would ever happen.
Question, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and healthcare workers are 41% below private insurance reimbursements, will physicians and healthcare workers such as nurses and anesthesiologists and others take a pay cut?
I was against this for so long, but time has changed my thinking. Costs are crazy, people are dying, or losing their homes. Obamacare failed, and I was against and still am, but it was a step in the right direction. It wasn’t enough the government needs to step in, its the only true fix. Set prices, get away from administrative costs, and give health care to all. We should all pay to get it (system can be created), but the price for living shouldn’t be this expensive.
A well designed Medicare for All system would not require Advantage supplements. The insurance role should be completely removed from health care. Health care should never be considered a commodity.
I’ve been navigating the healthcare system again lately and running into roadblock after red tape, after silly decision. Every single provider I’ve spoken with agrees that our system is completely broken and would be better without insurance companies. How is it that politicians don’t realize this? Two reasons: political donations and ignorant constituents that believe the for-profit companies’ propaganda.
It would help if some would stop calling this FREE medical care, next start calling it Single Payer Health INSURANCE. As a business model it can't be beat.
It is not just TIME for Medicare for all it was time 20 years ago. We have been waiting to long for our healthcare. Our politicians have been getting rich for far to long from bribes from the healthcare insurance companies.
Here is the thing, HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE would still support it if you told them the TAX that is currently SS and MED on the paycheck would need to be 400% what it is to pay for this? They seem to think it will be FREE not TAKEN FROM THEIR PAYCHECK
Caroline Bartel, thank you. We Americans shoot ourselves in the foot by not demanding that our tax dollars help provide insurance for all. I can't believe this is happening in America.
Dear Robert, will you do a video on Executive Order Ethics Waivers? Is it legal for the executive branch to issue these waivers to the Judicial Branch members? This is about Noel Francisco and possible oversight in the Muller Investigation. Thank you.
How would you expect this to be funded? You cannot say by taxpayers as there are more people than people that actually pay taxes, so who will cover the cost of those that don't pay taxes? If you say those that do pay, then their portion of the cost will rise as more and more either dont work, retire, etc.
Medicare for all sounds similar to the National Health Service we have in the U.K.
It’s a no brainier!
shlibber Didn’t know that. Thanks for the info. The U.K. owes him a huge debt.
It is similar the only difference is Medicare is just a Public Insurance System the government pays the bills and thats it. All hospitals and doctors offices remain privately ran and operated. The government doesn't own the hospitals and healthcare workers are not government employees.
Brad Kohl It still sounds essentially a private health care system with bills paid by the government.. quite a bit different I think but maybe just as good.
@@richardwalsh8148 absolutly every American is covered no one is out its free at point of service! I would personally like a National Health Service like England where all hospitals are nationalized but this is just as good!
Medicare for All is government insurance that will pay private healthcare providers. In the UK, healthcare is provided directly by the government.
I’m on Medicare and I support Medicare for All.
Me to I'm on Medicare with a Medicare advantage plan i wish i could dump .
Medicare works .
It's impossible.
David Lafleche, no it’s not! We already spend enough to pay for it it’s a question of how the money is allocated.
@Frederic Bastiat _We're_ the monsters? I suppose you think someone with a preexisting condition should just die then? Wow.
Throughout my healthcare career I’ve barely met but a few elders who DON’T HAVE to use Medicare. Eventually for US ALL we’ll be faced with a choice between retiring or switching to per diem employment to keep our health insurance.
DO NOT FORGET THIS
Healthcare is the main issue the Democrats need to pursue in 2020. We need Medicare for all to be the main talking point in any debate. Let's make America healthy again!
I already have Medicare because of my age. I also enrolled in a Medicare Advantage program. Both should be available for Americans.
Me too.
me to but became disabled and learned the hard way just having Medicare won't cut it . you should look in to a Medigap plan at 65 to cover it all with no copay's . you end up spending about the same buying a Medigap plan over paying copay's and a monthly premium for the advantage plan if i was 65 id buy one . I can't because I'm 62, an get this> with per existing condition because it's secondly insurance till I'm 64 . it seems there is a loop hole that lets the ass hole insurance turn you down with per-existing condition as long as it's secondly insurance till a few months before 65 at 64 .
@@harryhightower I used Obamacare until 65. I was too disabled to get a job, but I'm not disabled enough to qualify for disability. Unfortunately, I used my credit cards to live on because I had used all my 401k to continue to live in my apartment looking for a job for over 2 years. Now I'm hounded by bill collectors because social security doesn't afford me paying for food if I have to pay my credit cards.
Why should you even need an advantage plan??? A real Medicare system would cover everything.
@@tinoyb9294 I don't pay extra for the plan and my medication is free by mail. I also only pay a small copay at the doctor's office instead of having to reach my deductible before Medicare pays.
I support and am running on Medicare For All in 2020...and a whole lot more.
Marcus Perriello Hopefully you’re at least 35 years old already. I highly doubt that high school student running in 2016 would have even had a chance to become president at all, even if he was for one of the 2 big political parties. He was way too young. Also, you better be prepared to raise hundreds of millions of dollars if you are running for president. Even if you were running for either branch of Congress, you would still need to raise tens of millions of dollars or more.
@@grahamturner2640 I'm 38, and I'm running for Congress in Virginia. I don't take corporate PAC money, so I'll never beholden to corporations or wealthy elites. Winning on small-dollar donations is difficult, but the major difference is I actually have a highly Progressive platform and will be talking to people about it. It's one thing to raise millions of dollars; it's quite another to have actual substantive issues and sound ways to address them.
@@mp2xtreme Which district are you running in?
@@eisenhowerrepublican4237 I'm running in the 8th Congressional District, which encompasses from Pohick and Lorton all the way up to Tyson's Corner.
@@mp2xtreme 😌
Medicare $156 month after age 65 including the monthly deductions for the past 45 years of work.
I'd get a Medigap plan you never know that 20 % can add up,been though it .
I'm glad you finally addressed this topic Rob, but this definitely would have been much more useful if it came out earlier when mainstream media had been doing their best to try and counter it.
"I'm glad you finally addressed this topic Rob, but this definitely would have been much more useful if it came out earlier when mainstream media had been doing their best to try and counter it."
A whole LOT of points would've been more useful, if mentioned earlier on, but it's mainly HINDSIGHT that's '20/20' (or at least, better than present-day perspectives).
But, with the correct actions taken from here on, the goal may not be hopeless. It MUSTN'T be.
After payign this amount for 45 years of work The current tax rate for social security is 6.2% for the employer and 6.2% for the employee, or 12.4% total. The current rate for Medicare is 1.45% for the employer and 1.45% for the employee, or 2.9% total
VOTE! IT'S TODAY!
As a Canadian, Robert is ABSOLUTELY right....Great job , sir....
Straight Blue Ticket right here! GO out and VOTE!
For ALL the reasons outlined in this video, a Medicare-for-All health care system is an absolute MUST!
Perhaps with the cooperation of the Powers That Be, it'll be a reality - ASAP!
The thing that people don't understand is that medicare for all wold be good for entrepreneurs because they wouldn't have to worry about health coverage for themselves if they leave their current job to try and start a business and they wouldn't have to worry about finding a plan to cover their employees. people could work more if they had preventative care and thereby be more productive. Medicare for all makes economic sense.
As an entrepreneur I pay half of my employees payroll taxes, to include Social Security and Medicare. If we increase Medicare spending Medicare taxes will have to be increased. Meaning that I will have to pay more taxes per employee for Medicare.
@@woodchuck003 in Denmark we dont have specific healthcare taxes. Healthcare is simply a part of the regular tax rate, there is nothing extra to administrate, there are no employer contributions, coz that is also part of ur company taxes. And no, our company taxes arent that high, in fact both the OECD and Forbes rank us as the 6th best country in the world to start a new business, several places ahead of the US.
In addition, no1 has to be concerned about money or about not being able to get proper care. Every1 is covered 100%, whether for a check-up at the local doctor, or for ur 3rd bout of cancer, there are no limits.
It is possible to have a system, that takes care of every1 without giving u extra work or extra costs. All, it takes, is the will to achieve it.
@@dfuher968 this is a perfect response to my question about you countries military spending.
You are currently at 1.3%, you are not fulfilling you NATO commitment. We send 4 times more in GDP which equals billions of dollars more due to economy size. Which means that since your country relies on my country for military defence in a way my tax dollars are subsidizing your healthcare. If your country didn't have a defence pact with the US it may need to reallocate some funds.
when have we ever received anything "good for us"? lol
@@ChickenMcThiccken From the government? Never.
It has never made sense to me that your healthcare is tied to your job. I know the history of it, but that's history. We need to evolve into something that works better.
I’m for Medicare for all. I talked to a buddy of mine in Ontario and he swears by the healthcare system in Canada. After watching a lot on RUclips and researching online.
Canada is Paradise
Don't strive for the Canadian healthcare system. Strive for a better one.
Sincerely, a guy who went to the hospital trice and was 2 times dismissed with some simple medicines. Then came back a third time with a burst apendix in 1.5 weeks time total
Where is the rest of that sentence, your last sentence is an incomplete thought? Did socialized medicine kill you before you could finish typing?
the ones i spoke with say its good too
@Static Void We won't go away until free healthcare is implemented.I already refuted that "drug addicts and illegal alien" argument.
Education is the key. Maybe develop a panel to find new ways to get this message out to those who truly do not understand how this works. I've been for this for years.
Yes to Medicare for All!!!!!!!
The US government currently spends about the per capita on healthcare as developed countries with universal/single payer healthcare, so in theory this could be achieved without any tax increases
You'd think this would be an easy sell for fiscal conservatives considering how much less it would cost.
Not really because those fiscal conservatives are receiving monies from the insurance companies. They would not get any money from Medicare.
@@efzapp7 That's corruption. A true fiscal conservative would recognize the cost-saving benefits and be swayed on the merits.
@@NotHPotter
Apologies for barging in. You are correct of course. But we are not dealing with fiscally responsable conservatives. Vested Interests have distorted the political process to the point where the process no longer works for the people nut works for those interest groups.
i have heard another arguement. Single payer health insurance requires registration of the whole population and this makes gerrymandering difficult.
@@garethhutchings4045 that's something I hadn't heard, and that actually makes a much more nefarious sort of sense for the pushback.
Not considering how much they get bribed by big pharma and big insurance...
Thank you Robert Reich. No more smoke screens, no more lying, no more cheating, no more excuses, we need to just make this happen. It is doable. Every other industrialized country in the world has better health insurance than we do.
United we stand Divided we fail
Fall** but I understand that you are saying
@Static Void That isn't libertarian.
Your great. I didnt fully understand it until you explained it clearly.
I'm a middle class Canadian I've had two minor surgeries, two C-sections, and have had one of my children hospitalized for three weeks with very serious drug resistant pneumonia. All we had to pay for were drug prescriptions, most of which was covered by our employer insurance program. If we were Americans, we'd be bankrupt!
All the other first-world countries have some variant of single-payer health care. They all pay a lot less per head for it, *everyone* is covered and they get better outcomes overall. A healthier workforce is a more productive workforce. Preventive medicine results in better health and fewer sick days.
So three reasons in its favour: it costs less, it covers everyone and it has better results. Any one of those reasons alone ought to be sufficient. Whether on humanitarian or economic grounds, there's no reason not to have it.
I live in the UK where we have such a system. I live in one of the parts of the UK where medicines are *free.* It *can* be done. It not only doesn't break the bank, it costs less.
It's a no-brainer. Unless you're making a lot of money with the system the way it currently is. And have the best politicians money can buy.
Simple logical facts. I hope more people can open their minds and see that this is a win win for all.
Less work for better services. What's not to like. Thanks Robert R.
We american grunts need to establish a point which greed becomes absurd and illegal.
Having lived and worked in Canada, New Zealand and Switzerland I too know and fully support the introduction of some sort of system of single payer healthcare - and in all the countries I lived in it is a different setup.
My two comments are
1. in all nations with single payer healthcare they control costs in many ways but an important part is the practice of only paying for evidence based medicine. This means that the latest and glitziest treatments are not paid for until and unless they have been proven to be meaningfully better than older standards of care. This does limit the choices available and I'm not sure that many Americans with their 'me me me' attitude will be prepared to accept this 'rationing'.
2. In all other nations they sharply limit the medico-legal industry which is a major reason for high costs in the US. The practice of so called 'defensive medicine' is rife and pushes up costs. Its also the case that insurers rarely go to court to contest claims because its so expensive to do so. The result is a medical insurance culture that accepts that payouts are just 'part of the business' and they make the costs up in the fees they charge. Insurers and doctors all have lots of lawyers on retainer to 'settle' claims. The vast majority of these are not actually medical malpractice or misadventure but unfortunate medical events that are accepted as possible complications. Payments for these accepted 'side effects' would not be allowed in other nations except in the context of needed rehabilitation. The US medico-legal business is so huge that stopping this cash cow will be fiercely opposed.
Tied into part of the problem in the US is the legal _industry_ here. You're absolutely right that it's a significant reason that our medical system costs us so much. But suing and being sued is a for-profit business for lawyers and it's run rampant here. And one of the worst parts about it are the fees the lawyers charge, often reducing any sort of settlement to a fraction of what it might otherwise be for the client, and accumulating to massive fees for the loser in addition to the fees from the loss (you'd have to pay a million or so dollars, plus the million for the lawyer, for instance).
@@Caitlin_TheGreat - I think that you may have heard of the term "Just Us" System. The AMA, our "American Medical Association" was NOT started by physicians, but by financier JP Morgan and his minions(associates). Good call on the lawyers, this is why Shakespeare said "First thing we do, kill all the lawyers." I don't think that all lawyers are bad, but the system, which is set up to favor them and protect them, is prone to misuse and being abused. And the original comment is right - they'll fight - a lot more fiercely than for guns - if any person or organization tries to change the current system.
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I'm a recipient of Medicare for my disability so in the beginning I was against medicare-for-all but not the video I changed my mind I'm going to post it on Facebook so everyone in Facebook can watch this and make notes
Of course I support this this is what I thought we were getting 8 years ago
we would have gotten a public option, but Lieberman and a weak-willed Obama failed to make the public option happen.
Of course I agree with you. BTW I"m glad to see someone my age hosting a RUclips channel.
Healthcare in this country should be a right and a necessity, NOT a privilege nor a for-profit commodity.
We have former Senator Joe Lieberman, from the Great State of Aetna, to thank for getting rid of the public option during the debates in the run up to passage of the ACA. We have the Republican's blind hatred for all things Obama to thank for doing their best to undermine the law. Vote for the people in 2020 who promise to enact Medicare for all.
I support Medicare for all. However, I think it is fair to say that many of those healthy people that are presently insured, will see their premiums increase. That is the price we should pay for humane care of all our citizens. By claiming that our premiums will go down, we are undermining our credibility. Thank you for your dedication and informative videos.
The bulk of the cost for healthy people is those administrative fees. You are paying some of those fees even when you don't use your insurance. The cost of adding in the remaining uninsured (spread out across all those already insured), minus the decrease in administrative fees for all is likely to be neutral, or even a very small reduction for healthy people.
@@broddr I appreciate your point but I am not sure that I agree with your premise that the bulk of the costs to insure healthy people are administrative. The reason for our overpriced health care system is a systematic problem not solved by a single solution. My point was that we were told by most promoting the Affordable Care Act, that the premiums would go down for everyone and that proved not to be the case. My point is that when we promote inaccurate estimates, we could be hurting our cause. Thank you for commenting.
William Graf -- any insurance plan includes shared risk costs. My point is that the existing shared risk cost for healthy people would only increase by a percent of two by bringing in the relatively small population still uninsured. But changing to Medicare, with
I wish I could give you a trophy for the smartest leftist.
William Graf, Im from Denmark. We're not depending on any insurance plan or any insurance payments. We pay through our taxes, and Reich is correct, our healthcare is consistently just under half the price per capita of ur cost in the US. The only way, some1 would pay more for Medicare for All, would be, if they dont have any insurance right now.
Added to that, we have unlimited coverage for life with no extra costs. No cost to see a doctor, no cost to go to the hospital, no cost for mental care, no cost for rehab, no cost for any tests etc. Our only co-pays are for dental (still heavily subsidized) and prescription drugs (also heavily subsidized with a pretty low yearly cap), which are already much cheaper, coz when the pharmaceutical companies want to sell their product here, they have to negotiate with the state. In addition, we have several other health related rights also paid through our taxes. Such as guaranteed sick pay, home care assistence if needed, free handicap aids and grants to cover the difference in cost between a normal car and a handicap vehicle to mention a few.
Ofc, our system isnt perfect, no system is. But I would still take it over the US healthcare system without hesitation.
We all want one payer, everyone I know or have spoken to. Thank you for your video, amazingly there are still people who do not understand what this is. If the politicians really mean to give this insurance they would be more informative and direct. Doesn't really seem much push toward this.
@bulletsholes Your analogy doesn't even work right. Medicare for all does nothing to change the providers, it changes the billing. You still have DHL, FedEx, UPS, and the Post Office, you can go to any of them but the government pays the bill.
I support Medicare for all too. But I would like to see Medicare give complete coverage since the insurance companies are so damn greedy.
As an addiction doc I think we should link Medicare for All into our current epidemic. There is an urgency to the opioid epidemic and a huge lift would be Medicare for All that would understand preventative care > late stage care which would funnel $ to early childhood to prevent drug addictions in the future. Additionally, all patients with current severe substance use would have insurance allowing for improved access to medical and psychiatric care. These are just some of the examples how Medicare for All would help improve the response to the opioid epidemic. It has the long term of the people in mind, while private insurance focuses on long term of the business not the individual people.
As a nurse I see this as a no brainer, and the insurance industry and the for profit hospital industry will fight this, it will work......
Rob, I want Medicare for All! I live in Des moines Iowa and work with people who have disabilities and mental health illness, and our state is in crisis due to privatized medicaid supported first by Branstad, and now Kim Reynolds. This has drastically hurt our state in so many ways. Due to medicaid privatization the most disfranchised among us are loosing benefits, quality of health care, daily living support, and rehabilitation. I have one client stuck in a wheel chair, whose recently declining health and memory loss is becoming a safety risk, but under privatized medicaid she does not qualify for the support to keep her out of harms way. I have another client that is one more police interaction away from ending up in jail due to his schizophrenia symptoms. Privatized medicaid was supposed to "save" Iowa so much money, create and better quality of care, and provide more choice, but it has not fulfilled these promises. Now, due to the lack of preventative measures especially with those who have mental health issues Iowa is seeing an increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, ER's are full, and people with mental health illnesses are being incarcerated. This puts financial strain on law enforcement and medical facilities which cost a great deal more then having preventive measures through community support agencies who teach rehabilitation, independence, and skills.
I myself, working in this field have not received a cost of living increase or raise since Iowa privatized medicaid. Our company as a whole was one of the many lucky ones who has not shut it's doors due to the industriousness of our leaders and their successful plans for diversifying, but we do not have the ability to any longer provide competitive pay if we are to keep our doors open, and now there is a revolving door of people with very little experience in this field.
I also have medical bills, myself, for routine illness and laboratory fees that I am unable to pay. I am proud to be one of the few I know with an excellent credit score, but as medical bills pile up for things like strep testing, blood work, and routine dental care, I worry greatly about my finances. The cost for prescriptions has went up this past year for myself and many others.
I want Medicare for all, but the response from most Republicans when you talk about this change is one of fear. They think these are socialist ideas (or communist ideas) Democrats like Bernie Sanders scared people away with these ideas. I want Trump out of the White House, but can we really win 2020 with a Progressive Democrat, or would a Moderate Democrat have more luck moving into office. The things that keep me up at night! I'd love to hear your thoughts on what type of Democratic Candidate would have the best chance for winning in 2020.
Keep up the videos!
Like your video's. Yes vote here for Medicare-for-All health care system
These videos are brilliant ... all of my like- minded friends need to SHARE them on their FB pages...
i plan to watch EVERY video [and hit the 'like' button],
post at least one each day on my FB page
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In Sweden we have this. I like it. It makes me feel secure.
Agreed. Healthcare for all as a human right, not a privilege.
Pedro De La Torre really? What else are human rights? Food, clothing, and shelter? Wi-fi? A smart phone? Where does it stop? At what point do I not have to pay for your crap any more?
@@chaist94 you have it wrong my friend. I'm not asking you to pay for anything I may use regarding healthcare. What I am saying is that WE all pool our money and care for one another. Much they way we do not with out police, fire and transportation departments. Food should also be a right. Thankfully my kids never had to go hungry. My siblings and I did. Not because my mother was lazy or shiftless, we were dirt poor and if it hadn't been for the kindness and generosity of some, I don't know what my fate would have been. So yes, I'm asking you and every American to come together and ride above whatever division you feel exist between us.
The false narrative that others will succeeded at your expense must be eliminated. Think of it this way, if you get fully funded healthcare through taxes, and I get healthcare the same way, how are you paying for me without me paying for you?
Pedro De La Torre that sounds like a great idea, except for the part you left out, where we all give a chunk of our income to the government to redistribute as they see fit. What a terrible idea. I trust the private insurance companies more than the government.
@@chaist94 then we'll have to agree to disagree on this. No hard feeling as this is what makes America great, we can differ on politics but we will defend our right to have it.
Best of luck to you. 😁
Medicare should be for everyone we all pay taxes
@Static Void Saying "You're an idiot" doesn't refute anything.
@@frenchflag9390 this does ya dumb bitch.
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I am a typical disabled Medicare recipient who sees a doctor four times a year I pay for my prescriptions separately and another plan and I paid over $1,600 a year. Factor in the $600 premium my husband pays because I was married when I got my Medicare and now we are at 2200~ You know what I get? Nothing more than the average healthy person! Three doctors a year and outpatient short visit and it was a rough year maybe for visits. I’m OK with the fact of what people are like me and they will collect lots of profit even with people who got pre-existing conditions. When you pre-existing conditions don’t mean squat for how much you care is going to cost. My condition is managed with generic medications to treat it. No expensive treatments no surgeries no procedures no one usual test. It just is. This will totally work 100%
I'm in.
sure glad i live in Canada. we laugh at your health care debate
Vote
@Static Void Nah, they suck up to corporations.
Robert Reich, is a must! The 8th Habit! Lool!
Healthcare for profit doesn't work. It's sad we are the last developed country that doesn't provide healthcare for it's citizens. Thank you for this excellent video.
#Bernie2020
Medicare-for-all ALREADY! ❤️❤️❤️
Vote for progress! Unite!
Socialism will work this time
@@NathansHVAC medicare for all isn't socialist numbnutz....can you read a dictionary?
let us progress into that wall, remember if you just smile really hard well socialism will not turn out tyrannical.
@@woodchuck003 again...medicare for all isn't socialist...read a dictionary will ya?
@@TheEverydayProgressiveShow you are correct it is not the complete government structure of socialism. But it is socialist policy. It is social welfare.
I don't have any private health insurance and went to see a doctor this week to have an infection treated, the total cost to me was $0... Oh I also live in Australia.
Voted ALL BLUE and progressive this morning around 10:00 a.m. More turnout in general, more young, women, and PoC. All great signs!
Medicare for all, should be implemented ASAP. I and my co-workers, do NOT go to the doctors, unless it is a emergency. The co-pay and the $5000.00 detectable takes away any money you saved over the year. I would be better off, with a bi-monthly "savers account" and drop insurance all together. As insurance get more and more expensive, I think more people will drop insurance.
I know the Canadian system first hand. It has its pluses and minuses - and the minuses are far more than just wait times. But if you are poor/lower middle class...it is FAR better than the U.S. system.
So I hope America allows medicare for all who need it but also allows private healthcare for those who don't.
Great video, will share widely!
Yes, all that the professor says is true, but then it would be very difficult if not impossible for members of Congress to shake down money for their campaigns from the health care industry, and that's the only thing that matters.
Medicare currently has a huge supplemental market. If Medicare is extended to all, the private supplemental market would just be expanded, so insurers would have no real cause to complain or oppose the expansion. And US employer costs would drop so the US would have even more international competitiveness that is now enjoys.
When it comes to costs, with Medicare for All, the government will have the power to set the reimbursement rates for drugs and services and thus lower the cost of care even more.
Looking at the American health 'care' system, I heave a sigh of relief that I live in a civilised country with free healthcare for all regardless of wealth. The American system is a profit centre for hospitals, insurance companies and investors: the actual sick or injured person is way down the list.
Little slow on the video release don't you think ? ? ?
Americans get high cost medical services & worse care with for-profit plans. Medicare for all plans offer cost effective coverage without reducing excellence in care.
We can do even Better! We can negotiate with drug companies like Veterans do and reduce the price of lifesaving pharmaceuticals. We Get It!
I had planned to go to the "Market Place" for insurance. As it is open enrollment but the book keeper for my employer told me publically I was bound to the group insurance or the company would receive a penalty
It ends in May. So in spite premium remained removed from my paycheck.
Sounds like bullying to me. Consider this. When the office had someone die on this insurance, have knee and back surgery get hospitalized and deliver several babies. Does that sound promising? I don't believe this is ethically correct or legal. Perhaps I need correction in my understanding. After all the premium is 1/4 of my monthly income. Anyone else have similar issue??
Providing healthcare shouldn't be a for-profit business. And we subsidize education for so many STEM fields, we should subsidize doctors! Any kid who is smart enough, ambitious enough, and has the grades to get into med school should be able to go! We need more doctors anyway.
I think it would be great for us. The only down side I see is there are 500 thousand employees in the healthcare Insurance industry that would all be unemployed. Plus until we get money out of politics I don't think anyone in Congress would ever let it happen. Lobbyists are paying them millions to make sure it never happens. So for those reasons I doubt it would ever happen.
Question, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and healthcare workers are 41% below private insurance reimbursements, will physicians and healthcare workers such as nurses and anesthesiologists and others take a pay cut?
Medicare for all is a step forward.
If it weren't for Medicare, I don't know what I'd do.
I was against this for so long, but time has changed my thinking. Costs are crazy, people are dying, or losing their homes. Obamacare failed, and I was against and still am, but it was a step in the right direction. It wasn’t enough the government needs to step in, its the only true fix. Set prices, get away from administrative costs, and give health care to all. We should all pay to get it (system can be created), but the price for living shouldn’t be this expensive.
A well designed Medicare for All system would not require Advantage supplements. The insurance role should be completely removed from health care. Health care should never be considered a commodity.
This is what we need. End of discussion.
Healthcare is not a right. It's a service.
Its the 21 St century , America should have had this 60 years ago. You're way behind the rest of the world in this.
I’ve been navigating the healthcare system again lately and running into roadblock after red tape, after silly decision. Every single provider I’ve spoken with agrees that our system is completely broken and would be better without insurance companies. How is it that politicians don’t realize this? Two reasons: political donations and ignorant constituents that believe the for-profit companies’ propaganda.
Shareholders will donate a huge amount of money to keep the current system in place. They don't want to lose cash cow
All of this is FACT. Well said, Secretary Reich! Keep up the Fight!
Yes I do support Medicare for all.
I do support Medicare for all.
Medicare for all is definitely a good idea!
I support Medicare for all.
HR676 Improved Medicare for All would be great and covers everything, unlike the current Medicare where you still need supplemental.
Should be Medicaid for all. Medicare is still pretty expensive for a lot of people.
I support Medicare for All
It would help if some would stop calling this FREE medical care, next start calling it Single Payer Health INSURANCE. As a business model it can't be beat.
I AM NOW 77 AND NOW I THINK WE ARE ABOUT TO SEE IT COME TO PASS. BUT NOT TOMORROW .
It is not just TIME for Medicare for all it was time 20 years ago. We have been waiting to long for our healthcare. Our politicians have been getting rich for far to long from bribes from the healthcare insurance companies.
Here is the thing, HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE would still support it if you told them the TAX that is currently SS and MED on the paycheck would need to be 400% what it is to pay for this? They seem to think it will be FREE not TAKEN FROM THEIR PAYCHECK
I’m all for it. If we have to let’s start out by lowering the age for Medicare to 40.
Caroline Bartel, thank you. We Americans shoot ourselves in the foot by not demanding that our tax dollars help provide insurance for all. I can't believe this is happening in America.
I will second the notion It will be the right way to go and it might make us united Like on keeping each other alive.
Oh heck yes! Medicare for all should be a right!
Yes, Med for All of us!!
Great idea, it would be a positive step for the country and a bost to the economy.
Dear Robert, will you do a video on Executive Order Ethics Waivers? Is it legal for the executive branch to issue these waivers to the Judicial Branch members? This is about Noel Francisco and possible oversight in the Muller Investigation. Thank you.
How would you expect this to be funded? You cannot say by taxpayers as there are more people than people that actually pay taxes, so who will cover the cost of those that don't pay taxes? If you say those that do pay, then their portion of the cost will rise as more and more either dont work, retire, etc.
How much to you pay for healthcare?
Robert Reich for President of the United States.