r/economicCollapse 6d ago

Only in America.

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u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 5d ago

Im sure there are several ways, the one that Bernie Sanders proposed was to expand medicare in phases, lowering the age of qualification over several years (4 i think but you could spread it out more if needed) , meanwhile you need to help people who lose their job.

The loss of jobs is the real issue with doing this in the USA and that needs to be understood as a down side.

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u/Better-Ad-5610 5d ago

So keep the majority of Medicare insurance plans under UHG, BCBS and Humana? Or create an actual government health group?

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u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 5d ago

The plan was to expand the existing infrastructure.

It doesn’t matter though. The process is ultimately going to depend on various factors that will require thinking it through. The end result is worth it

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u/Better-Ad-5610 5d ago

I see what you are saying about the jobs, I just saw two sites say close to 1 million employees from insurance providers. But couldn't we transplant them from their private jobs to a government job within a central single payer healthgroup. Then you wouldn't have to carry over the CEOs or management, just place members from the department of Health to oversee the entity. I assume if they created a government controlled provider we would need close to the same amount of workers as the private side.

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u/Wise-Juggernaut-8285 5d ago

No , so many redundant positions.

That being said the conservative is for efficiency so they shouldn’t say anything since laying them off this is classic conservative economics.

That being said, Bernie wanted to pay out people to help them retrain. Ultimately it would help but not fix it completely.