'Making Money Off Dysfunction': Bolstering Medicare for All Case...

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'Making Money Off Dysfunction': Bolstering Medicare for All Case, Survey Shows Americans Accrued $88 Billion in Healthcare Debt in 2018

From the article:

Americans borrowed $88 billion in 2018 to cover their healthcare, putting yet another number to the argument against the private insurance system as the best provider of care and making the case for universal healthcare even stronger.
That's not all. 45% of U.S. adults fear a health issue could push them into bankruptcy—and 15 million Americans delayed purchasing medication to save money last year.
"Someone is making money off dysfunction," said New York Times editor Patrick LaForge.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/02/making-money-dysfunction-bolstering-medicare-all-case-survey-shows-americans-accrued?cd-

The US healthcare system prioritizes profits over people.

As long as for-profit businesses are allowed to dictate what can be done, and the limits of what can be done, the dysfunction will continue.

And people will die because of this dysfunction, and so that the 1% can further profit at our expense.