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Summary: Medicare Revitalization and Protection Act (or whatever; "Medicare for All" just sounds a bit weak to me) Description: 1. Streamlines our healthcare system by consolidating all current health insurance programs (SCHIP, Medicaid, current Medicare, veterans programs) into a single program, providing a single-payer health insurance program administered by the US government, based on the currently enormously popular Medicare program. Funding will be used to both pay for health care services as Medicare currently does, as well as to pay for the increased administrative work force required to operate the program. 2. Enables Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical providers. 3. Medical school debt relief. Recent graduates of medical school (say, last 10 years or less) are eligible for a debt relief package that at the very least will forgive their loans over the next ten years even if they're private loans (maybe set up a program to buy up medical school debt from private banks?). This is to help against any decrease in salaries that can be expected as Medicare becomes the sole payer on behalf of patients. 4. ?? Anything else? Targets: While it does affect everyone, it should be targeted at anyone who has ever stressed over their healthcare costs. People don't trust "the government" but so many can't loving wait until they're eligible for Medicare, so we'd focus on that. "Medicare" is a known quantity while "government healthcare" is dark and foreboding. Present the scenario of being sick, or of finding out you have a severe illness but you still have other debt in the background ... and yet, you don't need to worry about paying for going to the doctor. Or for those X-Rays. Because you get to use the same thing your grandma has (and how would she like it if Medicare was cut, hmm?) Scenario (Ad?): A working class couple is at the dinner table, looking over some forms. On the forms are numbers and the person reading them is obviously agonizing over them. "Honey, how are we going to pay for X (X is any disease that cannot be considered "your fault" by the opposition, these folks are innocent)? We have so many other bills..." The his wife points to the final line of the form with a big "DUE: 0.00" and calmly assures him that now Medicare is covering it. It's okay! Happy music plays. Scenario 2: Guy wants to start a small business but agonizes over how to handle paying for his employees' health insurance or the paperwork he'll have to file. No fear, because Medicare (again, not the government) will take care of that! Continue being the backbone of America, or something. Opposition: Massive, massive cost. I don't know how we'd either downplay this or have an acceptable answer for it that wouldn't turn off a lot of people. Edit: Something to note here is that you need to make it explicitly clear how this affects Joe Voter directly. This isn't to "help out others", it's to help out him. Bizarro Watt has issued a correction as of 00:33 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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