Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related

4532 readers

404 users here now

Health: physical and mental, individual and public.

Discussions, issues, resources, news, everything.

See the pinned post for a long list of other communities dedicated to health or specific diagnoses. The list is continuously updated.

Nothing here shall be taken as medical or any other kind of professional advice.

Commercial advertising is considered spam and not allowed. If you're not sure, contact mods to ask beforehand.

Linked videos without original description context by OP to initiate healthy, constructive discussions will be removed.

Regular rules of lemmy.world apply. Be civil.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Awa@lemmy.world

WhoRoger@lemmy.world

RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world

Medicare for All remains key pressure point for Democrats ahead of midterms (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by savvie@lemmy.zip to c/health@lemmy.world

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Last week, 1,500 unionized nurses gathered in a large conference room at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco to cheer for a cause they’ve championed for years: Medicare for All.

Considered a radical and even fringe idea for decades, interest in sweeping healthcare reform has surged as progressive Democrats have won a series of primary victories ahead of November’s crucial midterm elections. Most prominent among its advocates is Democratic US Senate nominee from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed – who took the lectern before these nurses.

“Medicare for who?” asked El-Sayed – “ALL!” the crowd shouted back.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Medicaid is sadly less popular then Medicare because Americans don't sympathize with the poor / don't think they'll be poor while they know they'll eventually be old and need Medicare.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Medicaid only pays providers about 2/3 of what Medicare pays for the same services, so a lot of primary care doctors don't take Medicaid patients. This leads to delayed care and overuse of the ER.