Healthcare in America — The Next Conversation Part 4 – So What Would Healthcare for All Actually Look Like? – Video

So What Would Healthcare for All Actually Look Like?

We talk about healthcare for all as though America doesn’t have any healthcare at all. The talking voices on television can certainly make it sound that way, but as we have seen, we actually have an enormous and fairly robust healthcare system. It has its faults, some of them serious, but it provides medical care to hundreds of millions of people through several different programs, insurance systems and funding mechanisms.

What is lacking is coverage for the people who make too much for Medicaid, aren’t disabled, and are too young for Medicare. Some of them have employer-provided private insurance, some buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act, and some have no insurance at all. This is the group that lives in the middle, between the government programs we already have and the private insurance system.

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We will come back to that later, because there is another question worth asking: why do the natural resources of our nation benefit so few people rather than the country itself? But that is another discussion.

For now, let’s get back to us.

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That would add another layer of bureaucracy, another funding system and another opportunity for waste and corruption. But it might also be the least disruptive way to move toward universal coverage without putting the systems that millions of Americans already depend upon at risk.

I don’t know yet which approach makes the most sense.

And I’m not sure anybody else does either.

But that is what we are going to explore.

Because if somebody tells you they have already solved healthcare for all, you might want to ask them to explain the details.

The details are where the real healthcare debate begins.