Democratic primary candidate Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and others believe Americans love their employer health insurance. What they fail to understand is that what Americans like is the health care services they are afforded by good insurance.
The reality is that leaving a major portion of one’s health and economic success in the hands of any employer is a fool’s errand. The employer’s fiduciary responsibility is to the shareholders of the company, the owners of the company. In other words, if they must cut your health insurance benefits, salaries, or any other benefits, they will do it to continuously maximize the profit and wealth growth of the owners and executives.
The above is not conjecture but fact. It is the reason every year you are in fear to see what changes your employer health insurance will look like. How much more will it cost you? How much more services will you have to pay for now? What doctors are no longer in the plan? What drugs and surgical procedures are no longer covered?
Billionaire Jeff Bezos showed recently that the rich have a pathological disease. They never have enough. As good as it has been for them, they still want more. Common Dreams reported the following.
The Washington Post, owned by world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, is reportedly moving most of its staff onto what one Post journalist described as “high-deductible health insurance plans that shift significant costs and risks onto employees,” a decision Medicare for All proponents highlighted as a prime example of the instability and injustice of the employer-sponsored healthcare system that is frequently praised by centrist Democratic presidential candidates.
The Washington Post Guild, the union that represents Post employees, sent an email Tuesday informing members that “the company announced changes to our healthcare plans for next year.”
“The news is that the health plan that two-thirds of Post employees have now—the Aetna Health Fund—is going away (and your reserve Health Fund monies will not roll over),” the Guild said.
Opponents of Medicare for All—such as former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg—often argue that a single-payer system would deprive people of the choice to keep their private insurance if they are satisfied with their coverage.
As Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project has pointed out, this argument ignores the fact that, under the current employer-sponsored insurance system, people don’t have the choice to keep their plan if their boss decides to change it.
“The only way to stop that from happening to people is to create a seamless system where people do not constantly churn on and off of insurance,” Bruenig wrote earlier this year. “Medicare for All offers that. Our current system offers the exact opposite. If you like losing your insurance all the time, then our current healthcare system is the right one for you.”
Americans must not buy into the disinformation coming from the likes of Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Corporate Democrats, the Republican Party, and the Plutocracy who all have a vested interest in maintaining a system that sucks the middle-class dry with private employer health insurance. They are directly responsible for the masses’ inability to accumulate wealth. And they fool most into believing they are working in their best interests. Do not buy it. Medicare for All is the only guarantee that one does not have to worry about year after year and that eliminates the possibility of bankruptcy or lack of healthcare.
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