Medicare-for-all plans get a reality check

By Amy Goldstein Amy Goldstein Reporter covering health-care policy and other social policy issues Email Bio Follow May 1 at 4:58 PM Liberal Democrats’ goal of transforming the U.S. health-care system into a single, government-financed model would be “complicated, challenging and potentially disruptive,” Congress’s budget analysts caution in a report.

The report says the government would have to figure out how to pay for virtually all of the nation’s $3.5 trillion in annual health-care expenditures, inheriting the nearly half now absorbed by private employers and consumers. Whether overall health-care spending would rise or fall — and how many of the 29 million uninsured residents would gain coverage — hinges on complex choices that policymakers would confront, the report says.

The ripple effects, the report said, are hard to predict. Wait times to see a doctor could increase, depending on whether physicians stopped practicing medicine if payments for care were reduced. On the other hand, the bloated U.S. health-care system could become more efficient, assuming a redesigned system would have lower administrative costs than those of private insurers and heightened incentives for patients to get preventive care.

Meanwhile, the term Medicare-for-all has become a whipping post for Republicans, including members of the Trump administration. Hours before the release of the much-anticipated report, GOP members of the House Budget Committee put out a video calling Medicare-for-all “radical” and “really expensive,” with conservative health-policy experts saying that it would swell the federal budget without a means to pay for it.

I wouldn't trust to give us a fair and unbiased analysis of MedicareForAll.. Hello!, Health ins. companies advertise in the WaPo and other papers.. stop being so naive.

naomirwolf Reality check = current system is a mass murderer.

Kingdom Comer's, like the Mormons and Evangelicals, seek a world where only they receive healing, food, clothing, shelter and life.

Tim Kaine has proposed that Medicare be offered on the exchanges with private insurance as well. It will help to spur completion among insurers. That gives everyone a choice.

For profit model we have now seems to be working great. 🙄 Plus, to avoid financial ruin you can ask for help via GoFundMe.

I don’t understand all the negative takes on this article. If you read it instead of judging solely on the headline it is a refreshingly straightforward reporting of the results of a non-partisan CBO study commissioned by a Medicare-For-All proponent who wants to get real.

Interesting how the Tax Cut for the Rich did not get a similar reality check. If we can afford corporate and 1% welfare, we can certainly afford to cover healthcare for all Americans just like every other developed country in the world does for its citizens. Medicare4All

As most Americans get health insurance through an employer or union, Medicare for all would upend the entire labor compensation market. Some would benefit, other people would be destroyed. The economy would suffer from the destabilization

Medicare-for-all equals Bad-care-for-all.

I don't know if Health Care is a Right or if it should be under Medicare, but health care for all IS the right thing to do. In the USA, we must take care of each other.

Hey look I found $2B to help pay for it

Your gluttonistic capitalism is showing bright and clear

Here's the reality check: it works and lots of other countries are doing it with great success. Go fuck yourself, Washington Post. 'Oh, it would cost too much.' Yeah, and the total 4 trillion wasted on the Afghan War, Iraq War, and War on Drugs is so much fucking better?

I wish liberal/socialists would get a reality check.....Hey! Venezuela!

What in life that’s worthwhile ISN’T “complicated, challenging and potentially disruptive”?!?

And you believe the government.....😂😂😂

How much can you lose in you take home check and also pay for deadbeats.

Reality check Deez nuts

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