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Bernie Sanders Wants To Join The Modern World On Healthcare – But ‘Don’t Worry’, Trump Won’t Let Us
"Feel the Bern"...
By Bernie Sanders for The New York Times
This is a pivotal moment in American history. Do we, as a nation, join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee comprehensive health care to every person as a human right? Or do we maintain a system that is enormously expensive, wasteful and bureaucratic, and is designed to maximize profits for big insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, Wall Street and medical equipment suppliers?
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Get ready for Bigly bankruptcies from healthcare systems across the nation. Reimbursement will go waaaay down. Hospital systems are leveraged to the teeth since they went on a buying binge years ago. They aquired, bought out, and crowded out most private practices with cheap financing. There is no solution actually. Damage was done. Speaking from a personal perspective, they destroyed massive outpatient services which would have been cheaper. For example, crowding out surgeon owned surgery centers by mandating their armies of employed family physicians send all cases to the hospital made simple elective surgery astronomical. Blame the fed, politicians, whatever.