"Study Shows 5.4 Million Have Lost Insurance Amid Pandemic," Not If We Had Medicare For All

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"Study Shows 5.4 Million Have Lost Insurance Amid Pandemic. Progressives Note Number Under Medicare for All Would Be: 0 "If we had Medicare for All, nobody would be losing their healthcare." Common Dreams, July 14, 2020.

Amid the worst public health crisis in a century and a devastating economic downturn that has thrown tens of millions out of work, more than five million people in the U.S. lost their health insurance in just three months this year, shattering the previous record set during the entire annual period from 2008 to 2009.

The estimate by advocacy group Families USA that at least 5.4 million Americans became uninsured between February and May was viewed by progressive activists and lawmakers as the latest evidence of the fundamental brokenness of a privatized system that ties healthcare to employment—and yet another reason Medicare for All is an urgent necessity.
"5.4 million Americans would still be covered if we had Medicare for All." —Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

"If we had Medicare for All, nobody would be losing their healthcare," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), lead House sponsor of the Medicare for All Act of 2019, tweeted late Monday in response to the new figures. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a public health expert and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate, echoed Jayapal. "5.4 million Americans would still be covered if we had Medicare for All," El-Sayed tweeted.

According to a report (pdf) released Monday by Families USA, massive job losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic sparked a sharp rise in uninsurance as millions of people were unable to move to alternative sources of coverage such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, Medicaid, or a spouse's employer-provided insurance.

States that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA saw a much larger rise in uninsurance, leaving millions of vulnerable people on the hook for exorbitant healthcare costs...

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[Budi]

1. M4A will cost trillions & is nothing but a thought that's still years in the making.

We don't have it. We won't have it in time to save us.
It's irrelevant.

You really think McConnell & Trump, right now, would allow trillion$ to be approved to save the very people they're trying to kill off?
That's trillion$ they could be pilfering into the international crime syndicate's foreign banks.

M4A is a pipe dream years in the making, if ever.

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2. Sorry, but that's just not true. Medicare isn't free. You pay a monthly premium of $135 per person.

Under MFA, a family of four could have a monthly premium of $540. If you were in dire straits and stopped paying your Medicare premium, you would lose your Medicare coverage.

Now, Medicaid is free for the most part. You don't pay monthly premiums. However, Medicaid can come after your estate after you die and seek to get some of the money back that was paid out in Medicaid benefits, usually if there were large, catastrophic expenses.