Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry tries to kill Med 4 all.

[guillaumeb]

Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All.

From the article:

An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money organizations, the insurance industry, and Big Pharma ramp up their campaigns against Medicare for All and other proposed reforms.
"More than half of all issue advertising this year has been on healthcare," according to Axios, "and that spending will only increase as the 2020 campaign gets closer."
Doctor Patient Unity, a dark money group that purports to represent doctors but doesn't publicly disclose its members, has been the biggest spender on healthcare ads this year, Axios found. The group has spent $26 million to date in 2019 into an effort to defeat bipartisan legislation aimed at curbing surprise medical bills.

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[Bradshaw3]

1. This makes no sense

I've read, including on this forum, that Americans just love their healthcare. Why would the industry be spending this much money when it is so popular? Hmmm....

[questionseverything]

2. we really cant blame the ins industry , afterall if you got to charge young healthy peops tons of

money and then shift the cost of their care to the govt as they age...it is like the perfect business plan if you have no morals

[guillaumeb]

4. Well said.

And people should recognize that in the US, the healthcare system is profit oriented.

[Bradshaw3]

5. Boy that perfectly nails it

That is what they are doing isn't it, and all that matters is the dollar signs.

[guillaumeb]

3. Agreed, if one accepts the media narrative,

Americans love having their healthcare system ranked 37th.