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THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

Released Friday, 19th April 2019
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THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

THE TRUTH BEHIND MEDICARE FOR ALL

Friday, 19th April 2019
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Why Medicare for all is going to remain a hot issue. What you need to know.
Let's bat around some thoughts on Medicare for all, so people can see a wider view of the issue. Because we are getting a lot of notions both for and against – and not a lot of reality or facts.

We’ve been hit with a ton of media about Medicare-for-All. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is pushing it – even on a Fox News town hall. And Medicare for all is getting traction from a sizable percentage of Americans. Some polls have it at 50-percent. But other polls show it at 10-percent if it means getting rid of all private insurance – which leads to my stand – which is – it’s ok as a choice but not a mandate. Tell me what you are seeing.

First of all, it’s not Medicare for all.... It’s actually Single Payer Healthcare

JD: But it doesn’t have to be. Look at the majority of Americans who want to keep their private employer insurance.

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Healthcare Secrets: An American Sickness

We assume you don’t rush out to get the latest book about our broken healthcare industry. So we do it for you. From time to time we’ll break them down and fill you in on the secrets you should know.This is one of the best -- about the worst of the healthcare industry. It’s calledAn American Sickness, by Elizabeth Rosenthal.We have both read this. And we have both seen exactly what she’s talking about. The American people are being hoodwinked and scammed by the healthcare industry. That doesn’t mean all people in the healthcare industry are evil, but it certainly means they are stuck in a system that is working purely for profits and not for your healthcare outcomes.It was released in 2017 is a real shocker about what goes on behind the healthcare industry’s closed doors.She lays out the “Economic Rules of the Dysfunctional Medical Market.” Although there are 10 rules, we’ll discuss only the first 3 here... Let’s go through them.1. More treatment is always better. Default to the most expensive one. Some people will say this is because of malpractice suits.The second economic rule of a dysfunctional medical market is -- A lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure. She documents a researcher at Harvard medical school who believed she was only steps away from curing diabetes. And yet -- no pharmaceutical company or nonprofit would step forward – to fund her research -- including the juvenile diabetes Association.

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