What Improved Medicare for All Eliminates

Unnecessary administrative costs within three bureaucracies
Tens of millions of people being uninsured and under-insured.
Medically-related bankrupticies.
- “One study: half of all bankruptcies, involving 700,000 American households and affecting more than 2 million people annually, are attributable to illness or medical debt.
- “Another study: 29 million Americans … are in serious medical debt … (with) large medical bills on their credit cards, (have) second mortgages … or are in a payment plan with their hospital or other provider.”
- See Bankruptcies Caused by Illness or Medical Debts
Rationing of care, such as pre-existing conditions
- See Rationing of health care for more examples and how rationing will be different with single-payer
Competitive disadvantage of businesses competing globally with respect to health care.
Limitations on health care for veterans. Veterans will have more options for care with more convenient access.
Complexities and inefficiencies. Single-payer is simple and efficient.
Multiple prices for the same service with the uninsured paying much more.
High pharmaceutical costs The other industrialized countries pay far less for drugs.
Involvement of debt collection agencies.
Financial and emotional stress due to medical debts and concerns about the future.

Single-payer might have its own problems,
but it will be better than what we have today!

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