The Case for Single Payer - Expanded and Improved "Medicare for All" Explained
Channel: Steve Auerbach
Date: 29/07/2020

What is Single Payer, Expanded and Improved "Medicare for All." 
How and why would it be better for America:

Is access to healthcare a private for-profit commodity to be purchased (widget de jure)? 
Or is it a social need and communal good (fire dept)?

The only way to cover everybody + reduce total system costs + reduce costs to individual, families, businesses

Rx: Publicly funded, privately delivered, single payer, national health insurance system
aka: Expanded and Improved “Medicare for All”: 
Nationally it is Sanders (S-1129)/Jayapal (HR1384); New York Health Act  (A5248/S3577)

NOT just current Medicare-as-it-is, just expanded to age 0; but massively expanded and improved benefits
More comprehensive benefits: all medical, mental, dental, hearing, vision, drugs, devices, long-term care
Pre-paid by progressive taxes; not regressive flat tax of premiums; net is less expensive for 95% of people
No premiums, copays, deductibles; covers everything; no surprise bills
Freedom of Choice: All hospitals, doctors, other healthcare providers and pharmacies take it
Security: You always just have it, own it forever, regardless of employment and changes in life circumstance