Real Security: Come January, We'll Need Universal Healthcare More Than Ever
Deductibles will kick in again soon for millions of us. Fortunately, there is a solution.
Three thousand people died on 9/11, and we changed our way of life. One hundred times as many people will die from this pandemic if they haven’t already. It’s time to do what’s needed to be done to stop the dying.
We need “real security”: n awareness that our national security is inextricably linked to policies on health financing, economic inequality, climate, racism, and many other factors. Here’s one problem in search of a real-security solution.
The January Problem
We have lost many people to the deadly combination of COVID-19 and a broken healthcare system. Come January 1, it’s going to get even worse. Fortunately, a proposal in Congress could help considerably.
Here’s the “January problem”: As I wrote in The American Prospect last March, there is an under-report aspect of the pandemic: the fact that it will is especially hard for people with “good” private-sector health insurance to pay for their care in the first part of the year.
While schedules vary from plan to plan, millions of people will find that their health care deductibles have been reset to zero on January 1, 2021. That means they’ll have to pay the full cost of care until they meet their deductible limit. In this economic crisis, millions of people will be unable to pay for needed care.
The public health implications of that are obvious. People will not get tested for COVID-19, which will increase its spread as we struggling through a dark winter of spiking infection and death. They will also defer flu treatments, amplifying another wintertime health problem.
The First Response
Fortunately, there is a solution. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal have introduced the he Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act, which would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for everyone in the country until the crisis is over. Deductibles and copays would be covered for people public or private insurance, and the uninsured would automatically be enrolled in Medicare.
This is the right approach, ut there doesn’t seem to be much support for it in Washington. The public must demand that the federal government’s first priority is moving swiftly and efficiently to end the wave of deaths. Step One is the Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act, but others must quickly follow.
Doesn't sound good to me. In the first place, if the US Government would do it moral and civic duty, to only allow nutritious food to be sold, prevent so many toxins from being in our food, water and air, and reduce or stop our exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from wireless devices which cause cellular oxidative stress, take vitamin and mineral supplements---and encourage people to exercise more and take less prescription drugs that compromise the immune system there would be NO pandemic!
You mentioned about the "wave" of deaths. You and others are mistakenly making the COVID-19 fatality rate higher than it really is to help create fear and paranoia. See excerpt from a MD's letter at: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/covid-19-testing-pcr-a-critical-appraisal/ below.
"Now, six months into the pandemic, the most accurate measure of deaths, IFR (Infection Fatality Ratio) has declined to a range that is within the bounds of deaths attributed to seasonal influenza in moderate to severe years. Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) published in June 2020 an article “CoVID-19 Assessing Infection Severity” data from the CDC published in May 2020 showing the following:
Mortality of SARS-CoV-2 based on symptomatic cases was 0.4%. Since 35% of cases were estimated by the CDC at the time to be asymptomatic, the overall CFR (case fatality rate) was 0.26%
Comparison with CFR reports from seasonal influenza and influenza pandemics range from 0.1% to 2.25%. The latter figure was for the 1918-1920 pandemic, but the CFR for seasonal influenza in 1957-1960 was 0.28%, higher than the 0.26% for CoVID-19 reported by the CDC in May 2020."
The PCR test that is commonly used to detect whether a person has COVID-19 is very inaccurate according to doctors and as a result should not be used.
Some more excerpts from the doctor's letter are below;
"Four recent sources delve into the PCR testing phenomenon in detail and together make a compelling argument that the standard form of diagnostic testing for CoVID-19 – PCR – is, just as its discoverer Kary Mullis argued prior to his death in 2019, grossly inaccurate and should not be used for diagnosis."
"When one understands the clear and well documented fallacy of utilizing PCR based testing for diagnosis, it is inconceivable that policy makers continue to rely upon this technology, whose discoverer warned should not be done. Continuing to do this suggests an ulterior motivation to do so. Increasing numbers of people are awakening to the reality of this fallacious practice, as demonstrated by a recent mass demonstration in Berlin, Germany at which over one million individuals from all over Europe protested the continuation of extreme mitigation practices in these circumstances. Environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was the keynote speaker at this event and has a number of outstanding articles available to the public on the website for Children’s Health Defense."
Also, a CDC study found that approximately 70% pf people wearing masks caught COVID-19. The trouble is, when government health officials knowingly overstate deaths, apparently to install paranoia to make people feel they have to be vaccinated which then the pharmaceutical companies profit, which some government health officials have a stake in, there appears to be an ulterior motive.