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The goal must be to eliminate private health insurance cos. Their *sole function* is to make money off of you, the patient, or “consumer” as they call you. Billions of your dollars each year go to their CEOs & their *armies* of staff whose job it is to deny your claims.
If the change of switching from private health insurance to a true single-payer, free-at-point-of-use health care system is scary to you, I can only tell you my own story which is that my family made that switch when we moved from the US to the UK 5 yrs ago.
From signing up to using the local general practitioner all the way through using the NHS as they cared for my son Henry as he was disabled & then killed by brain cancer, we have been awe-struck by what a national health service that offers true universal care can do.
That’s why I find it depressing that any Democratic presidential candidates would bend over backwards to pledge fealty to private health insurance companies. Really lets you know who they’re working for, and who they’d serve when in office.
