The weak link in universal healthcare would be the government which is at best poor.
Proof?
The VA
Medicaid
Medicare
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Medicare operates on a lower overhead than private insurance, pays doctors better, and faster, doesn’t require patient records every time a doctor schedules a procedure or preauthorization and has a longer timely filing period, and the head of CMS has a salary of 250K a year compared to 10,20 or 30 million paid to CEO’s of Humana, United, Aetna, etc…
Other than lower overhead that entire post is pure bullshit.
Medicare and medicaid are the two worst in the industry about paying even before Obamacare which immediately cut reimbursements by 25%.
Yep. The problem is the profit. Medicine in America, unlike other western nations, is provided at profit. Medicare is not. I do medical billing and can tell you that Medicare pays the best and fastest, and doesn’t require patient records or preauthorization or the other tricks that for profit private insurers do.
And, Americans love Medicare…
Yeah , right . 
In 2019, Medicare spending totaled $805 billion. Currently, that’s approximately 17% of the overall federal budget with many estimating that the percentage will go up to around 20% over the next decade.
In 2019, 38% of Medicare funds came from payroll taxes. This represents a significant amount of money coming out of each WORKING American’s paycheck.
Me too. His policies were so stupid that if enacted they would finally collapse this shitty broken system. What you are advocating would do the same. I support it.
Pure unadulterated BULLSHIT.
Wonder why some doctors grumble when a Medicare patient walks in the door? It’s likely because the government program typically pays only 80% of what private insurers do.
Payments run 60-90 days.
Wonder why many physicians refuse new medicare patients?
Medicare is a fraud paradise for the criminals in the US. Private insurance has a department to prevent fraud.
Correct, I do medical billing, and Medicare pays the best, and the fastest. They also don’t require patient records every time like PI, and they don’t require authorization for procedures as often as PI. Americans on Medicare love it and it’s never going away. But eventually the crooked PI’s will…
Now you may find the biggest critics of CNN peddling CNN as a source to dispute that…