AskProfWolff: Medicare For All vs. Employer Med Plan 

I had cancer surgery here in France. If I were in the US I'd be dead.

If the U.S had medicare for Al, I could start my own small business tomorrow' Just like tens of thousands of others. It is this way to keep the "Working/Slave" working and not competing with our "Owners"!

I cannot believe a well educated population in the US cannot understand how Medicare couldn’t benefit them! I live in Australia and we don’t have the anxiety, suffering and death that a private health care system provides. After all, its profits are dependent on denying healthcare to as many people as possible !

Healthcare for all and UBI has never been need more here in America.

Almost every other wealthy western democracy has good quality universal health care from the government similar to the single payer system sometimes proposed in the US

From Europe: I want the bus and truck drivers driving on the same streets as I do not to be in pain. I want the nurse treating me and the hair dresser cutting my hair not to worry about their parents. I want construction workers and those who assure the water is clean and the traffic lights are working and that all sorts of security risks are minimized not to worry about how they are going to pay for their medical debt..... Or student debt. Or worrying about their children without proper child care. Or thinking about the lousy pay they are getting for the work they are doing.... I'm selfish😉

Dental care, chiropractic and eye care has to be included in Medicare for all. I just had a tooth pulled out and it costed me $850 with insurance.

It has always bothered me ...when a private business grows enough, and the owner decides to "go public" no such thing occurs...They invite "private" investors to buy in...and become stockholders...Today those same corporate entities are being bought by the public... because the Federal reserve is buying their debt...But my irritation with publicly(private) traded corporation's and the current system is based in the fact they are allowed political power...and have taken it...they want ownership of all... including the workers...whom they own whenever possible...they are intended to be immortal and intended to grow infinitely in a finite mortal universe ... whittling away any rules that stand against them...I contend if a business is successful "fine"...but if the owners want to go public, that should be what happens...and only if the "public" agrees that they are needed as a "now" publicly owned entity...and if we do..."we" invest in them..."we" acquire controlling interest...we all receive dividends from cradle to grave...yada yada yada..."We" absolutely need ownership and control over...what would, and is, at present...taking ownership and control of "US"...and...as I say...are intent on the best relationship between "US" and them, (excepting a handful of shareholders) they can imagine...one of ownership/enslavement ...time to turn the table

In Scandinavia we pay about 4% tax for our insurance, the employer contributes the same. There is some copay (Norway up to $ 250) after that nothing.

The airline workers who just lost their jobs probably have opinions which may be a new understanding. Shopping around for health insurance is wacky.

Small point but relevant: Dr Wolff did not mention THE COST OF THE CAPITALIST MEDICAL SYSTEM TO THE ***EMPLOYER***. And where does he get that money from? From paying you much less than your productivity is worth. Etc.

So well explained! Thank You!

A study in Australia reported that people paying for private care were over tested and more exposed to intrusive medical care than their public counterpoints. In some cases the report questioned the value of the some procedures against less intrusive surgical procedures. More testing and surgical procedures means a higher insurance cost to the customer. Medicine in general, focuses on pharmaceutical and surgical solutions over dietary, traditional and alternative treatments, easily accessible on the internet. Is the medical establishment increasing the cost of medical treatment for things such as cataracts by ignoring or limiting the range of medical solutions to their orthodox exclusive training? I think so!

We in Scotland don’t pay for medication

I can attest to everything Prof. Wolff said, coming from Europe. I grew up with Medicare for all and also Dentalcare. Now in Canada we have Medicare for all only not enough doctors, because they get educated in Canada, are very well paid but still move to the States because it is never enough, they are only in for the money. I wish we would import more doctors from Cuba.

How to eliminate these middle man vested interests? Form a Co-op and go to other countries for medical treatments?

best way to answer it: It works in Canada better health is not a commodity

Medicare would lower the cost of pharma, hospitals lab work, and doctors because they negotiate rates downward. The key is to eliminate private insurance and raise taxes on employers instead

now more than ever, it's time for Medicare For All.

Stay in house where see the mountains with studying English So good video.

Thanks for all you do professor Wolff!!

Medicare for all is clearly the superior option.

Channel very small, should have 2 BILLION subs.

Anyone in business understands "volume discounts", and universal is much better than random coverage from an employer at the higher prices, without full coverage.

Top tier results in some of the most expensive hospitals and doctors for the elite who can afford them, but for the rest of the people very bad results cause it's too expensive for them to afford anything good and if you can't afford it this system won't bother much about giving you any good care at all.

Socialized medicine exists in countries with functioning democracies. US politics have been bought, carefully packaged, and marketed to us. I don't know what that is but it's not democracy.

I’m a Union Railroader our insurance SUCKS...

Tell him if he gets too sick his job WILL furlough him and bye bye healthcare after 3 yrs. Hello medical debt and stress on you and your family. Plus Medicare creates jobs and stimulates the economy. I just had a driver tell me he was working for uber and switched to Medicare transport because uber was taking 30% of his earnings.

Public -vs- Private. Any private plan is for profit and cannot have the transparency of an honest publicly run program.

Medicare for all doesn't eliminate employer medical insurance plan. There are many areas that Medicare does not cover.

Usually you get people saying that taxes would increase too much to compensate for the "socialist" health care coverage. That should be balanced out with regulation and price stabilization along with a lower cost for the average person, correct? Usually you say, "look at Europe" and the knee jerk response is usually, "look at what they pay in taxes!"

great show

It is quite hard to understand as a European why ppl resist a "medicare for all". It seems like the ones who have insurance now, fear their medical treatement would lower if everyone could get it. It isn't the case. But "individualisme" seems so deeply rooted. It seems as if one does not grant someone else the same rights or treatement if they are below them on the social ladder. Smh.

I paid 250.00 for an over the phone physical with a Nurse practitioner Physicians Assistant. What a joke!

I tried to explain this to my aunt who is concerned that this would be a strain on the middle class because she doesn't believe they would actually tax the billionaires.

Canadian here that has had a heart attack and heart surgery in Canada and also has experienced American Healthcare due to a car accident. All I can say is quit farting around and get Universal Health Care

We promote competition and against monopoly. But isn't it monopoly is the result of competition? When companies compete, some will lose and ultimately you end up with one winner, the monopoly.

From the time you heard companies,your interest doesn't matter,maximum profit.weather folks live or die,all of us will soon die let see what profit their will have.

Well said, and we have to fight hard for M4A.

I like Medicare for all and I have no doubt that the US could pay for it. However, my only concern is that Congress might gradually reduce coverage for the over 65 population (who need it the most) to pay for the cost of coverage for the rest of the population and to pay for the wars and the military industrial complex . The U.S. is a paranoid country that fails to realize that their "defense" needs are caused by their own meddling in other countries' business.

Bill Allen? I know a guy with that name. He builds small live steam locomotives

I don't need to have a medical insurance at all and the care and drugs still cost way less than in USA so.. I don't know what to say to you if you don't believe what Professor Wolf is saying. I live in Finland.

Can anyone seriously think that employer plans can be competitive with national medical insurance? Maybe the UN should run an international medical insurance plan?

The means of production for an individual is their time and effort. Socialists want to claim that the public owns the means of production, so socialism is the public ownership of individual time and effort. Because the "public" is simply a word used to describe a group of individuals, and because time and effort cannot be divorced from its physical source, government must take on the role of caretaker of the public interest and assumes ownership of the individual. There's another word for this: slavery. Socialism is slavery.

Green Party is the only way to vote for M4A.

Ay first here.

The answer: they’re both awful

socialist bully yikes