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No One Likes Private Health Insurance.
De-bunking one of the favorite corporate talking points.
There’s no denying that the healthcare system in the United States has been at the forefront of national discourse in the midst of the democratic presidential primaries. Of course, largely due to the fact that Bernie Sanders has made it his mission to draw attention to and change the fundamental brokenness of the current system. Now it should come as no surprise that calls for an overhaul of the way health insurance is provided — such as Bernie’s Medicare For All plan — have been met with staunch resistance not just from the left, but the more moderate, corporate friendly wing of the Democratic Party as well.
There have been a wide array of talking points in favor of the status quo hurled at bold proposals like Medicare for All, naturally with a few particularly common ones standing out from the bunch. One of the most disgusting is the notion that those in favor of Medicare for All want to take away insurance coverage from the American people. The other even more popular would be the idea that people actually like their health insurance companies.
In reality, I’m not aware of a single individual who has had to deal with an insurance company that actually likes them. At eleven years old, when I had to write a letter begging them to…
