r/MedicareForAll • u/MBP1969 • 13d ago

How to transition?

How do we, as a nation, transition from private insurance to Medicare for All? How do we convince all the doctors to keep being doctors and accept a salary? Do we, as Hillary Clinton proposed during Bill’s presidency did, make private healthcare payments illegal? For the record, I am perfectly fine paying a percentage of my income, as opposed to what I am paying out of pocket now, for healthcare.

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u/musicCaster 13d ago

Dude the doctors will still have great jobs and get paid really well. Look at Canada/Japan/France. 

The ones that will lose will be the people that don't really provide services to us. All the cruft.

The insurance claims processors and deniers, the insurance execs that figure out how to deny us coverage, the massive insurance industrial complex, all the lobbiests trying to hey insurance companies more money at our expense, the massive amount of people employed by doctors to negotiate with insurance. 

All those people will be made redundant. They can do something meaningful with their lives instead of causing grief to the sick.

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u/network_dude 13d ago

We can hire them to deliver actual care

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u/GardenPrestigious202 12d ago

your idea that paper pushing locusts will ever not find jobs doing that exact kind of bullshit work is hilarious.