Senator Sander’s legislation Provide Health Care for every American through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. Rep. Jim McDermott has filed a companion bill in the House.
SANDERS MESSAGE: The Affordable Care Act is “only a modest step forward toward dealing with the dysfunction of the American health-care system” with insurance companies, drug companies and medical equipment suppliers able to rake off $Billions in MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYER MONEY rather than providing health care.
POLL: Americans were the least satisfied with their own health care system. 75% of Americans are unhappy with the LOOTING health care SYSTEM.
“The United States is the only major nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care as a right to its people,” Sanders said. “Meanwhile, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care with worse results than other countries that spend far less. It is time that we bring about a fundamental transformation of the American health care system. It is time for us to end private, for-profit participation in delivering basic coverage. It is time for the United States to provide a Medicare-for-all single-payer health coverage program,”
— Senator Sanders – applauded his home state of Vermont for its progress toward single-payer
IN CONTRAST GOP-RYAN WANT TO DESTROY HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICANS!
“We’re (GOP) not going to give up on DESTROYING the health care system for the American people.”
— PauI Ryan (R-Wl) AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE March 12, 2013
GOP PLAN = Here is a VOUCHER worth $300 NOW GRANNY GO BUY INSURANCE at age 87!
GOP = ONLY THE RICH DESERVE HEALTH CARE!
GOP TRIED 50+ TIMES TO KILL HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICANS!
GOP = MASSIVE FAILURES!
GOP = Deny health care to 90 Million WOMEN
GOP = Repeal Obamacare reduce Americans dream of access to healthcare
GOP = PRO-HEALTH CARE SCAMS
GOP = KILLING HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICANS = GOP DEAD!
GOP = DENYING WOMEN AND MINORITIES AND POOR – BASIC HEALTH CARE = GOP HOLY GRAIL OF THEIR FRAUD SCAMS!
GOP = HATE AMERICANS SO MUCH THEY DENY RED STATE CITIZENS LIFE-SAVING HEALTH CARE!
GOP = RAClSM ALSO = DENlES RED STATE ClTlZENS LlFE-SAVlNG HEALTH CARE!
GOP = SAYS RED STATE AMERICANS DON’T DESERVE HEALTH CARE!
GOP = KlLLS 45,OOO AMERICANS EACH YEAR!
GOP = PRlVATlZED FRAUD BASED SlCK ENHANCEMENT HEALTH CARE
GOP = LOVES $10‘s of TRlLLlONS in Runaway health care costs Outstripping Inflation 5 to 1
G0P LIE = USA HAS BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE WORLD = EVERYONE IS SERVED = DOUBLE COST AND CUBA QUALITY
GOP = PIGS FEEDING AT THE INSURANCE TROUGH = Health Insurers Donating Millions to Republicans Who Promise to Repeal Health Care Reform
GOP = ONLY PRETENDS TO HATE OBAMACARE = BUT LOVE SAME THING IN HERITAGE-CARE = ROMNEY-CARE = OBAMACARE = ALL EQUAL FRAUDS
OBAMACARE = NOTHING LIKE QUALITY FREE HEALTH CARE LIKE EVERY EUROPEAN AND ADVANCED ASIAN COUNTRY
GOP = Americans for Prosperity (FRP), $70+ BILLION KOCH Billionaire BRIBERS accused Rick Scott (R-FL) of working against their interests and for Obamacare implementation of a health insurance exchange to create competition and reduce costs.
GOP = RUNS A PROTECTION RACKET FOR WHITE-COLLAR MULTI-NATIONAL ZIONIST MAFIA CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, INSURANCE FRAUDSTERS, AND USURY FEES IN HEALTH CARE!
GOP = MAXIMIZE LOOTING OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS = HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE SCAMS ARE BIG ONES = BIG ZIO-MAFIA BRIBES!
GOP HEALTHCARE = AMERICANS PAY DOUBLE!
GOP SPONSORED CORPORATE GREED HAS NEARLY DESTROYED AMERICAN HEALTH CARE and the THE MIDDLE CLASS!
CORPORATE MEDIA = IGNORES THE WHITE-COLLAR RICK SCOTT LEVEL OF FRAUD IN HEALTH CARE!
GOP HEALTHCARE = RANKED WITH CUBA ON QUALITY!
AMERICA = RIP VAN WINKLE = WAKING UP AND SAYING = “WHAT IS THIS ZIONIST MAFIA SCAMMING AND LYING?”
An awakening majority in the 99% grow increasingly confident that this unstable destructive status quo cannot and will not endure for long. At some point, the people will collectively give it a final shove and bring down the pyramid scheme.
A GROWING large majority of the distressed and belatedly awakening disappearing MIDDLE CLASS are responding to SENATOR Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as their advocate and potential future leader.
EVERY AMERICAN MUST INSIST ON A DETAILED EXPLANATION FOR EVERY HEALTH CARE SERVICE AND ITEM!
GOP = SCUM AND SLIME OF HELL = NOW DEAD = FINAL BURIAL SOON!
REVERSED GOP SCAMS BY PROSECUTING WHITE-COLLAR ZIO-MAFIA CRIMES TO GIVE HEALTH CARE CRIMINALS RELIGION!
EXAMPLE 1: MEDICAL DEVICE SCAM
Medical device SCAM and TAX on prosthetic devices and equipment.
$ 350 is COST for HIP replacement device to make
$35,000 is PRICE SOLD to hospitals
$50,000 is PRICE SOLD to (invisible to most) consumers through insurance coverage + price gouging for hospital stay and surgery.
Pure PRICE GOUGING and nobody feels sorry for these DEVICE RIP-OFF artists + massive rip off via the insurers.
EXAMPLE 2: XRAY SCAM
XRAY = COST IN USA VERSUS OTHER LOCATIONS AROUND WORLD
40 to 240 TIMES HIGHER COST IN USA VERSUS INDIA
6 to 34 TIMES HIGHER COST IN USA VERSUS FRANCE
13 to 80 TIMES HIGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PAKISTAN
$O COST = England for X-RAY and DOCTOR’s.
50 to 300 TIMES HIGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PHILIPPINES
33 to 50 TIMES HIGHER COST IN USA VERSUS SOUTH KOREA
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USA COST = $205 to $1,200
INDIA COST = less than $5 for a chest X-ray SERIES.
FRANCE COST $35 – chest XRAY Study + DOCTOR – for whole thing!
PAKlSTAN COST = $15 for XRAY STUDY of lower abdomen and neck.
PHILIPPINES = $4 TO $5 FOR a chest x-ray for 2 views INCLUDES DOCTOR
SOUTH KOREA = cost $6 to $25 SOUTH KOREA including DOCTOR visit, X-Ray – done immediately – total waited about 15 minutes.
XRAY – INVENTED 1895 BUT UNLIKE COMPUTERS IN AMERICA, WHICH DROP IN PRICE, USA PRICES KEEP GOING UP EVEN AS NEW PORTABLE DEVICES EMERGE AND COST IN OTHER COUNTRIES DROP LIKE A ROCK TO $5 PER SERIES
UPDATE: GOP PLAN = Totally Misleading NEW Attack on Obamacare
GOP = Digging for 2015 bad Obamacare premium news = GOP Theory High Prices
GOP RNC LIE = “Americans will be shocked by higher premiums this November.”
HIS LIPS ARE MOVING!
GOP = GOP = FORGOT Obamacare is designed to protect enrollees against year-to-year price fluctuations.
Larry Levitt, Kaiser Family Foundation = At least one insurer in Washington was cutting rates next year.
How Obamacare Protects Premiums = People receiving subsidies are “shielded” from price increases = Subsidies are calculated based on a person’s income = Cap the dollar amount that a person would pay. = Amount paid is tied to their incomes, not their premiums, they are mostly protected from any price increases. = shielded from premium increases = 85% of Obamacare’s 8 million enrollees received financial assistance.
GOP = Lies and leaves out a big piece of the story to TRY to MAKE OBAMACARE AND ISSUE in 2014 and beyond.
CBO SAYS: OVER 100% OF FUTURE PROJECTED BUDGET DEFICIT WAS DUE TO HEALTH CARE COST INFLATION – SO NOW THAT HEAVY LOAD IS DRAMATICALLY REDUCED.
SOURCE: TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE COST AND THE ROLE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
GOP MADE US #1 in WORLD IN HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SPENDlNG
GOP = 9,OOO% INFLATION SINCE REAGAN
SCOTT (R-FL) DID KlCKBACKS TO DOCTORS TO MAKE FAKED inflated DlAGNOSES TO INCREASE BILLINGS AND ROB MEDlCARE AND THE TAXPAYER!
SCOTT (R-FL) DID KlCKBACKS TO DOCTORS TO GET THEM TO REFER PATIENTS INTO HIS HOSPlTAL FOR MASSlVE LOOTlNG OF MEDlCARE AND lNSURANCE COS!
OBAMACARE 2013 INFLATION = 1.3% = LOWEST IN RECORDED HISTORY
“From 2010 to 2012, health spending grew at an annual rate of just 1.1% in real per capita terms—the lowest rate in the 50 years we have been collecting these data, and a small fraction of the 6% rate that inaugurated the past decade.”
— JASON FURMAN Wall Street Journal “ObamaCare Is Slowing Health Inflation”
GOP = LOVES THE SCAMS IN HEALTH CARE = WANTS TO KEEP ALL OF THEM!
WAKE UP AMERICA = GOP thinks health care is only for $Millionaires
GOP = Don’t care if working people can afford health care
GOP = Love to see working families go bankrupt if they lose their jobs or if a family member needs expensive health care.
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SOURCE: TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE COST AND THE ROLE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT10% REDUCTION IN HEALTH CARE SPENDING PROJECTIONS!
Around 1.5% of AMERICANS will see a slight increase under OBAMACARE!
80% UNAFFECTED AMERICANS
15% UNINSURED WILL NOW BE COVERED
2.5% GET SIMILAR COST PLAN
1.3% GET BETTER PLAN WITH SUBSIDIES
1.5% GET BETTER PLAN WITH NO SUBSIDIES AND SLIGHT INCREASE IN COST
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GOP STATES CHEAT THEIR CITIZENS OUT OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE!
OBAMACARE REFORMS:
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine year
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plan
Temporary coverage for early retirees, ages 55-64
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
Obamacare = Removes Monopolies with competitive Free Markets
Obamacare = Massive reduction in NUMBER of Extremely Expensive ER visits.
ObamaCare = No more hassles with pre-existing conditions.
Obamacare = Reduced OVERHEAD that the Insurance Scammers can SKIM from AMERICANS!
Obamacare = Lowest health care inflation in recorded history! 1.3% – 50 YEARS!
Obamacare = Not perfect but then what is?
Obamacare = No lifetime Limits if you become seriously ill!
Obamacare = Family members can stay on parents’ plans until 26 years old.
Obamacare = No annual benefit max for prescriptions – GOP Medicare DONUT HOLE CLOSED!
Obamacare = SAVES TAXPAYERS $1.2 TRILLION over next 20 years = C B O says
Obamacare = Freedom to change jobs without losing or changing health insurance
Obamacare = A BIG BOON TO PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY – Start New Businesses with less Risk!
Obamacare = Later Lets ADD Medicare Buy-In as an Option on the Exchanges!
Vermont = Already has that flexibility!
Medicare = 3.1% Overhead compared to Insurance = 15% to 30% Overhead. We saved $2,400 per year with no subsidies from Blue Cross!
Got to love the competition IN STATES THAT ARE TRYING!
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OBAMACARE REFORMS:
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine years
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plans
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
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GOP = LOVES THlS KlND OF DRUG AND HEALTH CARE FRAUD IN ALL lTS FORMS!
US HEALTH CARE FRAUD IS UNBELlEVABLE! 1,OOO% to 3O,OOO% OVERCHARGlNG:
$1O8,663 for “SPECIAL DRUGS” mostly not-so-special $5.16/liter standard saline
$3O to $333 charge for “LAB” for BLOOD and URlNE – Medicare pays $7 to $3O.
$15,000 for BLOOD and lab tests with Medicare would cost a few hundred dollars
$1.50 for TyIenol PiII – 1OO like piIIs are $1.49 for consumers.
$13,702 for a cancer wonder drug – hospitaI PAlD $3,000 to $3,500. 400% MARKUP!
$283.00 for a simple chest X-ray – Medicare pays $20.44
$21,000 for a faIse aIarm – $995 ambuIance+$3,000 DOCTORS+$17,000 HOSPlTAL
$199.50 troponin test – Medicare only pays $13.94
$157.61 complete BLOOD COUNT – Medicare pays $11.02
TRlPLE BlLLlNGS VERY COMMON!
$18 per Accu-chek diabetes test strips – 55¢ each retail cost
$7,997.54 stress test with radioactive dye ($872.44) on CT scan – Medicare pays $554
$1,200 for regular stress test – Medicare pays $96
$87,000 Outpatient BiII
$333 Chest X-Ray – Medicare pays $23.83
$3 for marking pen – reusable – Medicare pays $O
$31 for reusable strap to patient on bed – Medicare pays $O
$32 for reusable bIanket – Medicare pays $O
$39 for GOWN surgeon WORE – Medicare pays $O
Still MEDlCARE can NOT negotiate WITH BlG PHAMA FRAUDSTERS!
COSTlNG $TRlLLlONS!
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GOP = LOVES THE PRIVATIZED HEALTH CARE SCAMS!
XRAY = COST IN USA VERSUS OTHER LOCATlONS AROUND WORLD
4O to 24O TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS lNDlA
6 to 34 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS FRANCE
13 to 80 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PAKlSTAN
$O COST = EngIand for X-RAY and DOCTOR’s.
5O to 300 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PHlLlPPlNES
33 to 5O TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS SOUTH KOREA ____________________________
USA COST = $2O5 to $1,200 lNDlA COST = less than $5 for a chest X-ray SERlES. FRANCE COST $35 – chest Xray Study + DOCTOR – for whole thing! PAKlSTAN COST = $15 for XRAY STUDY of lower abdomen and neck. PHlLlPPlNES = $4 TO $5 FOR a chest x-ray for 2 views INCLUDES DOCTOR SOUTH KOREA = cost $6 to $25 SOUTH KOREA including DOCTOR visit, X-Ray – done immediately – total waited about 15 minutes.
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NO MORE-PROFITING ON SlCK PEOPLE!
GOP = LlVES OFF BRlBES FROM $TRlLLlON CRlMlNAL SCAMS THEY SPONSOR
PRlVATlZED HOSPlTAL FRAUD!
SOME CODE PRlCE VARIATlONS – 4,O98% = 41 X HlGHER PRlCES AT “FOR PROFIT” HOSPITALS!
The Great American Hospital Pricing Scam Exposed-We Now Know Why Healthcare Costs Are So Artificially High
Insured Americans = Paying OUTRAGEOUS charges in ever-rising cost of Insurance
Unfortunate millions of Americans who has no health insurance = Charged SAME OUTRAGEOUS and shamefully inflated rate card prices guaranteeing financial ruin if you experience an illness.
Vast chasm between the rate card charges from one hospital to the next?
Hospital Procedures cost 10+ TIMES the price charged for the identical service at other Hospital – Sometimes 41 TIMES HIGHER!
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine years
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plans
Temporary coverage for early retirees, ages 55-64
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
The ACA grand-fathered all the individual policies that were in place at the time the law was enacted = the plans in effect at the time could still be offered even if they did not meet all the standards laid out in the ACA.
Terminated plans were all plans that insurers introduced after the passage of the ACA = Plans insurers knew when they sold them would not meet ACA standards for 2014. The blame would seem to rest with the insurance companies, not the ACA.
Some plans in existence at the time of the ACA are losing their grandfathered status because the insurers rates went up too much or coverage went down too much. This is presumably because the insurer has decided that it is not interested in continuing to offer the plan.
Many plans that insurers will opt to drop for market reasons that may or may not have anything to do with the ACA. Insurers change and drop plans all the time.
Many plans insurers will stop offering because of the changed market conditions created by the ACA. “Hardest to insure” plans are likely to be cancelled because the exchanges charge everyone the same rate regardless of their pre-existing health conditions – serious health conditions don’t matter.
Play Fox News: Obama also promised people they could keep their doctor but since 2010 tens of thousands of doctors have retired or even died.
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