Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Reminds Us Why We Must Guarantee Health Care To All

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30. Why do we need to be reminded about health care for all? And what, after...

over 30 years in Congress, has Sanders ever actually done to improve health care except bore the fuck out of all of us talking about it? Where is his Senatorial coalition to get us better health care? And, just WTF was he doing to help when Obamacare was being put together?

Yes, there are people who have cut their overpriced meds down to dangerous levels, refused to see a doctor because of the bills, and otherwise hurt themselves because of problems paying the bill. And more are heading to bankruptcy court.

But, again, wtf has Sanders done to help? We have children's health programs, elderly health programs, native American health programs, poor people's health programs, workmen's compensation, veteran's care, negligence lawsuits... All of these were invented to solve specific medical situations and every one of them show the good and bad news of trying to get health care through Congress. If Congress was even involved at all.

Does Bernie even know what's out there already and have some idea how to get the existing programs to work better together?

And, finally, MFA is merely a way to pay for health care, but does absolutely nothing to improve or increase the availability of health care, without much more work. Just a guess, but reducing reimbursement rates to present Medicare or Medicaid levels could well reduce the level of care.

Anyone wanna know why a newly minted MD with a few hundred thousand in med school debt might be tempted to be a dermatologist rather than a GP? How will Berniecare deal with that?