Medicare For All: Non-Negotiable #3.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 8 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

America’s healthcare system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed. The problem is that it was designed to generate profits, not health outcomes. We spend roughly 20% of our GDP on healthcare, about double what other developed nations spend per capita, yet we have shorter life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, and leave tens of millions uninsured or underinsured. Medicare for All is the obvious and attainable solution but it has fallen out of mainstream conversation since Biden bested Bernie for the 2020 nomination. Rekindling this spark is vital and should be one of the primary non-negotiables of the Left movement.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:40

Chapter One: Changing the Intent. 00:03:09

Chapter Two: Building the Narrative. 00:07:51

Chapter Three: A System Designed to Fail. 00:11:44

Chapter Four: Understanding Medicare for All. 00:16:34

Bring it Home, Max: 00:24:20

Post Show Musings: 00:28:41

Outro: 00:38:57

Book Love

Ken Lefkowitz: Medicare For All: An Economic Rationale

Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson: Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide

Steven Brill: America’s Bitter Pill

Paul Starr: The Social Transformation of American Medicine

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0:00.0	Come listen to the man who knew we finally had enough, so we started up a podcast and called upon his friends.
0:13.3	No matter where you're from or your unique political bend, here's the story of our perfect
0:18.4	American ass. Max in 99 with the facts to blow your mind.
0:24.1	The nanny with the wicked sound design.
0:27.4	So grab a seat and pour yourself a glass of writer's tears.
0:31.0	Un-sucking the republic is about to begin.
0:40.4	Fuck you too, Milton's freedom.
0:50.4	One of the reasons I put Medicare for all behind the development of a civilian labor corps and our non-negotiables is because one must proceed the other. Why is that?
0:56.2	Because 18 cents of every dollar spent in our economy goes toward health care. Okay, and?
1:02.0	And nearly three quarters of those dollars goes to four places, hospitals, doctors' offices,
1:08.7	prescription drugs, and insurance administration. As of this year,
1:13.9	total health care spending is expected to exceed $5 trillion. The administration of benefits,
1:21.1	policies, claims, coverage, disputes, formularies, accounting for co-pays, deductibles, etc., employees a lot of people.
1:30.4	So here's another fun fact.
1:32.2	The cost to administer Medicare is similar to the cost to administer benefits in Canada under their single-payer system.
1:39.3	It's around 2%.
1:40.8	The cost to administer private insurance benefits in the United States outside of Medicare
1:45.8	is around 13%. In that delta, there is savings. But also jobs. That's right. So to be clear,
1:54.7	the public government-run insurance program is six times more efficient than the private market.
1:59.9	In other words, the exact opposite of what we've been told.
2:03.5	This is all very complex and huge, and it's a hell of a lot more than a hashtag or a bumper sticker.
2:09.9	It's easier to understand than the Affordable Care Act and the Rube Goldberg system of bullshit we have now,
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