Biden cites delays, cost when asked about Medicare for All veto

[Liberty Belle]

2. We can't afford 4 more years of insurers jacking up rates.

My healthcare is $2,000 a month for hubby and me. That is nearly double our mortgage. We CANNOT afford this. We don't qualify for any subsidies. We are 62 and 63 years old. That's for an HMO, not even very good healthcare.

I don't care if they have to slash the military budget or anything else -- this has to be our nation's number one priority.

Our rates went up 50% over last year, and 50% or so the year before that. What happens when our savings runs out? And what about those who don't have any savings? I've talked to many people in their early 60s that this is happening to - their rates are all $ 900 to a thousand dollars a person, per month. Could you afford that? Then double it for two of you?

We're in California, which has huge fines if you don't have healthcare, so we don't even have the option of no healthcare at all.

Biden needs to understand how critical this is and why Bernie's call for a "revolution" not evolution in healthcare resonates with a lot of us.

If nothing else Biden should insist on allowing seniors to take Medicare early, maybe paying a little big between 55 and 65 to buy into it earlier.

But even that is not a total area. In our area there is a shortage of doctors taking Medicare patients because the reimbursement rates are so low.

What we really need is to go back to making hospitals etc. nonprofit, not for profit, and put limits on how much insurers and pharmaceutical companies can jack up rates. This is a CRISIS and I'm more afraid of having my savings wiped out and not having any health insurance than I am of the coronavirus.