Warren: Everybody Will Transition to Government-Run Health Care Plan
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WARREN: "So the basic structure of the plan is to get everyone covered. And by the way, for people who already have Medicare, a significant feature of Medicare for All is that it pays for long-term care, both long-term care in a facility and long-term care at home. It’s about health care from our babies to our seniors so that no one has to go bankrupt over a medical problem. The problem we’ve got right now in the United States is that the insurance companies are sucking value out of our health care system. Look, look at the basic business model. It’s charged the maximum amount you can in premiums and pay out the least that you can in health care coverage. And last year, following exactly that model, insurance companies sucked $23 billion in profits out of the system and that’s before you even count the tens of millions that they paid the corporate CEOs, how much people had to spend on time on paperwork and hours fighting with insurance companies. So what I’m looking for is how we get maximum coverage of all our health care costs at the minimum price for everyone."
