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		United Health Group Stock Chart* from $10 to $53 = 530% increase during same time 5 million more Americans became uninsured *taken from NYT financial link

MEDICARE FOR ALL would be like sunshine and a beautiful sky, a grassy field, people relaxing and children playing... To think that we can have guaranteed healthcare - quality healthcare - for every single person in this country to enjoy, would be like a sunny breezy day…

MEDICARE FOR ALL would save an estimated $300 billion. Even though 50 million of us have no health coverage at all and another 50 million are poorly insured, we spend almost twice as much as the other countries that cover every one. We waste hundreds of billions on insurance companies which do not provide any healthcare at all. In fact, one third of that money is wasted on salaries, lobbying, stock holder profits, and marketing. The only way to pay for all of us is to remove the useless insurance companies and their multi-billions in profits from our system.

MEDICARE FOR ALL would provide much better benefits for all of us including both the uninsured and the insecurely insured -- that's all of us.

Advantages of Single-Payer Health Coverage (Medicare for All):

1. Comprehensive Health Coverage for everyone
2. Greater choice of provider
3.Health decisions made by patient and provider instead of HMO/Insurance Companies
4. Improved Health Planning
5. Health coverage would be portable, not tied to employment.
6. Eliminates the high (up to 33 percent) overhead cost of multiple private, for-profit insurances by including coverage for everyone in a single-risk pool reducing administrative costs to that of Medicare: 1-5%.
7. Instead of hundreds of insurances with differing requirements (requiring increased office staff), providers would deal with only one form.
8. The plan would be financed with a progressive payroll tax, at less per-capita cost.
9, Businesses would avoid hassles of managing health care, and become more competitive without annual inflationary health costs.
10. Consumers would pay less for goods and services that are inflated by businesses’ high health costs - e.g., currently $1,500 is added to the cost of each U.S.-made automobile due to health costs.
11. US Consumers , who now spend twice as much per capita as consumers in other developed countries (with poorer outcomes), would save because administrative health costs would be greatly reduced.
12. Single-risk-pool coverage would permit negotiation of lower, bulk rates for medications and durable medical equipment.
13. Increased US life expectancy: Similar socioeconomic single-payer European countries enjoy average two-year longer life expectancies.
14. The over-45 million uninsured Americans and 50 million more underinsured would have access to preventative care, without having to resort to and pay for emergency care at costing 4 to 5 times more.
15. Emergency rooms would be used as emergency rooms, not for primary care.
16. Retirees would not face loss of health coverage by employers.
17. Eliminates the profit motive that places priority on stockholders’ profits, and creates a perverse incentive to deny health coverage to the ill or high-risk.
18. Eliminates co-pays and deductibles and long waits for coverage -- sometimes waiting until death.

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