Peace of Mind
Due to New Freedoms
Having health care and lifestyle choices
without
unnecessary financial, physical and emotional stress
Peace of mind characteristics of an improved Medicare for All
- Freedom of having health care choices … NOT choice of health insurance company plans, but freedom to choose the following:
- Physicians and other medical professionals
- Medical facilities
- Freedom of having lifestyle choices
- Profession
- Employer
- Job position
- Timing of retirement or a leave of absence
- Changing job, such as to part-time work, to have more time to take care of the needs of a relative or friend
- Freedom from financial, physical and emotional stress
- No medical bills coming in the mail
- No bankruptcies due to medical bills
- No fear of how a child or a parent will get health insurance or will pay for medical bills
- Little or no additional costs beyond what most people will pay, which is a few percent increase in the health care payroll tax in exchange for the huge savings of never paying premiums to health insurance companies
Additional Notes about Peace of Mind
We need the peace of mind regarding health care that is felt by people in other industrialized countries. A Switzerland official told a U.S. documentary crew that it would be a scandal in Switzerland for anyone to go bankrupt regarding medical bills. [Reference - text and video of interview]
The world view regarding health care financing documents that other industrialized countries have implemented improved Medicare for All with health care financing that is either mostly or all non-profit. People in these other countries do not worry about medical bills.
Due to this peace of mind that people in other countries have experienced for decades, those people sometimes get into an uproar of protests and rallies in their country when there is a change that citizens think is detrimental to their health care.
But … what is the cost for this “peace of mind”? Lower cost per person than the average citizen currently pays! The U.S. pays an incredibly high 2.5 (250%!) times the average cost of other industrialized countries. Going to Medicare for All with non-profit single-payer health insurance will cause an increase in taxes, such as payroll taxes, but payments to health insurance companies will go to zero! The result is here. Savings result from the elimination of many types of bureaucracy that will no longer be required.
Years of My Personal Experience and Knowledge
Based on my life’s experiences and my knowledge from detailed study, I have a very deep appreciation for what peace of mind means regarding health care. Most residents in every other industrialized country in the world know what I am writing about when I write “peace of mind”. Those countries have health care is a human right; it needs to be here also via non-profit financing, such as the simplest, most efficient option: health care for all with non-profit single-payer national health insurance.
I have spoken to many people from many countries during the past 10-15 years about health care. They look at me in amazement; that is, they are dumbfounded that the United States has not implemented non-profit financing of health care years ago.
- Beyond my studies of the subject, here is where I got my appreciation:
- travels in other countries
- business trips in other countries
- medical emergencies in other countries
- medical emergency (mine) in southern Germany due to eye-related emergency
- medical emergency (my 3 year old son) in northern Germany due to dog biting him at his jaw
- medical emergency of my wife’s cousin in England who was tested and evaluated for an entire day
- medical emergencies of additional American citizens in Israel, Canada, etc.
- … and more, but I must stop now and save my space and your time!
- living in Canada for 4.5 years with my wife and our two sons, who were in early elementary-school grades
- discussions about this subject with people from other countries
- Canadian friends with whom I’ve spoken since we moved back to the States
- American citizen friend who has lived in Germany for decades
- An example of my personal contacts: November 2007 at the International Youth Hostel in Chicago: one-on-one contacts with people from Hungary, Australia, England (2), Singapore, and Canada. ALL of these people are amazed that the U.S. has not established Health Care for All with non-profit national financing of health care.
- Although I wasn’t there at the large restaurant table in France, I related to what that table-full of American citizens said to Michael Moore very roughly half-way (as I recall) into the movie SiCKO; during those 2 segments of the movie those Americans expressed peace of mind regarding health care. Their words, their facial expressions and their tone of voice made it very clear that they are highly satisfied with health care … outside of the U.S.
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