Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumWarren has a Medicare for All calculator at her site.
https://elizabethwarren.com/calculator/medicare-for-allI separated out my share from my husband and daughter. Ill do it again as family when I locate the figures. I know were still making payments on two oral surgeries for little blm. And a tonsillectomy.
My result:
Youd bring home an estimated $2,575 more per year under Elizabeths Medicare for All plan.
Thats because you wont have to pay for premiums or copays or any of the other ways health insurance companies stick you with the bill. Whats more, Elizabeths plan for Medicare for All doesnt raise middle-class taxes by one penny.
Last year, 40 million people didnt go to a doctor to check out a health problem because of costs, and 36 million people skipped a recommended test, treatment, or follow-up because of costs. Under Elizabeths plan, nobody will have to choose between their health and paying their bills.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,061 posts)Youd bring home an estimated $12,378 more per year under Elizabeths Medicare for All plan.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)since the application basically asked me what I spend and responded I would get it all back.
Something for nothing seems like BS.
And Warren is my choice so I'm really disappointed that this is just blowing smoke at me
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,061 posts)When it happened to me it was because I hit family button instead of individual, so I punched it again.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)and will still need for the family.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,061 posts)and it came back with a 12,378 saving.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)trouble using the "MFA Calculator."
Whatever you put into the "MFA Calculator" as healthcare expenditures, is what it says you'll save. I'll leave it at that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
caraher
(6,278 posts)I think this mainly is supposed to remind people that their health care does cost them money personally, even now, even if insured
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
blm
(113,061 posts)and are still fearful of mounting out-of-pocket costs.
People like to mock her, even here, as if she doesnt understand the math, but, the math and the policies behind the math is exactly what she does understand.
Jamie Dimon and his financial industry pals know it for damn sure.
Warren spent years researching why middle class and working families go bankrupt, and she can spot exactly how the policies favored by health insurance industry and financial industry were rigged against the average working family.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)By Abigail Abrams
TIME, October 24, 2019
Miriam Callahan remembers the patient who clarified her decision to become a political activist. He was homeless, suffered from severe arthritis in his hip and was self-medicating with fistfuls of Advil. That gave him a bleeding gastric ulcer that landed him in the emergency room at a public hospital. Callahan, who is a medical student at Columbia University, and her colleagues patched him up and sent him back to the shelter, where he began selfmedicating once again. He was stuck in a horrific cycle. Arthritis isnt a disease that should kill people, Callahan says, but in this case, it was becoming a real possibility. Its immoral, she says, the way that we treat people in this country.
In the months since seeing that patient, Callahan has channeled her frustration into political organizingand shes hardly alone among her fellow medical professionals. With roughly 27.5 million Americans uninsured and nearly 80 million struggling with medical bills, doctors, nurses, medical students and other patient-facing professionals are finding themselves on the front lines of a broken system. Like Callahan, many are looking for ways to fix it. The result is that the medical field, which was once one of the most conservative professions, is becoming an unlikely hotbed of progressive political activity. One of these advocates top goals? Single-payer health care, now known most often by its politically charged nickname: Medicare for All.
I dont think I can just be a patient advocate at the bedside, says Deb Quinto, a 38-year-old nurse in California who has canvassed in support of Medicare for All. Its our job to protect our community and to protect any threat to their health.
https://pnhp.org/news/a-new-generation-of-activist-doctors-is-fighting-for-medicare-for-all/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,854 posts)It didn't ask for my income at all. It only asked what I paid for my insurance, and then stated that I'd save the exact same amount each year.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
TexasBushwhacker
(20,190 posts)It also doesn't cover a pretty big group - the owners of small businesses. I work for a CPA who has one official employee, but I work full time for him through a temp service and he has another accountant that works for him primarily during tax season. He pays over $1800 a month for his wife (57) and himself (61), plus deductibles and copays. Sure, it's paid by his company, but he IS his company. His gross income is probably under $250K. Is that still middle class?
I really like Warren, but I think some form of a public option is more practical.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden