I General meetings were held throughout Vermont and in many parts of the country. In these gatherings, I always ask a very simple question: Is our health care system broken? The answer that I always receive is: Yes! The American health care system is broken. It is very expensive. It is terrifyingly harsh.
Today, we spend nearly twice the individual of health care like any other country on Earth. According to the latest data, the United States spends $ 14,570 per person on health care compared to only $ 5,640 in Japan, $ 6,023 in the United Kingdom, $ 6931 in Australia, $ 7,013 in Canada and $ 7,136 in France. However, despite our huge expenses, we are still the only main country on earth to not guarantee health care for all people as the right of humans.
While insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies continue to achieve huge profits, more than 85 million Americans are either not believers or insured. The result: About 68,000 people dies in our country every year because they cannot withstand the costs of going to the doctor when they should, and more than half a million Americans go bankrupt due to the medically relevant debts. In the United States today, 42 % of cancer patients drain their entire life savings during the first two years of their diagnosis, while one out of four declared bankruptcy or the loss of their homes due to mortgage or evacuation in 2022.
This is crazy and not described. Cancer in the United States should not lead to financial ruin.
Regarding the life of the expected life, we live in the shortest four -year, on average of people in other wealthy countries, while the usual working class in the United States lives seven years less than the wealthy. We also have a doubtful discrimination of the existence, to a large extent, the highest infant mortality in any other rich country on Earth.
Regardless of our general health care system, our primary care system is worse. Today, tens of millions of people live in societies where they cannot find a doctor, dentist or psychiatrist even when they have insurance, while others should wait months to see. Despite our massive health care expenses, we have no sufficient number of doctors, dentists, nurses, mental health practitioners, pharmacists, or home health workers – and one in four Americans cannot buy medicines that their doctors prescribe.
For all these reasons and many others, I am proud to re -enter medical care for everyone in the Senate. My colleague, the actor Pramila Jayapal, offers the same bill at home.
Our legislation will provide a comprehensive coverage of health care for all without expenditures outside the pocket, and unlike the current system, it will provide full freedom of choice with regard to health care providers.
No more insurance premiums, no more discounts, no more common payments, no more endless models and fight with insurance companies.
And comprehensive means covering dental care, vision, hearing tools, prescribed medications, home and community health care.
More importantly, Medicare for everyone would give Americans the freedom to switch jobs without losing health insurance. Under our legislation, health care becomes human right, guaranteed for everyone, not a work feature.
Will the healthcare health care system be expensive? Yes. However, despite providing comprehensive health care for all, it will be much less expensive than our currently dysfunctional system because it will eliminate a huge amount of bureaucracy, administrative costs, administrative costs and priorities in its place in our current system. In fact, the Congress Budget Office estimated that Medicare for all will save Americans 650 billion dollars annually.
Under Medicare for everyone, there are no longer armies of insurance employees who call us, tell us what is covered and what is not covered and chasing us to pay our hospital bills. This simplicity does not significantly reduce the administrative costs, but it will make life much easier for patients, doctors and nurses who will not be forced again to fight through the nightmare of the insurance company’s bureaucracy.
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While we are talking, Republicans are working additional work to make bad health care position worse. They want to pass the “reconciliation bill” that would define Medicaid and expel millions of Americans from their health care to give huge tax exemptions to billionaires.
It is clear that we must defeat this terrible legislation. But we must do much more. We cannot simply defend the status quo in the field of health care and the law of affordable care-legislation that provided huge sums of companies’ care to large insurance companies and major pharmaceutical companies-while installments, discounts, joint defenses and medical price increased.
It is now time to rethink health care in America. It is now time to announce that health care in our country is right, not a privilege. It is now time to stand in the face of greed and the power of special interests that achieve huge profits from a harsh system and break. It’s time now to pass Medicare for everyone.
The age of medical care for all will be a transformational moment for our country.
You will not keep people more healthier, happier and increasing the average life expectancy, but rather a big step forward in creating a more vital democracy. Imagine what this means for the people of our country if we have a government that represents the needs of ordinary people and not only the interests of strong companies and donors in the billionaire campaign.
This is America. We can do that.
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Bernie Sanders is an American Senator and a member of the Health, Education, Labor Committee and pensions. It represents the state of Fermont and is the longest independent in the history of Congress.
