Bernie Sanders Says Medicare for All Would Provide "Quality Care" During Pandemic

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The argument, as I see it, is a bare-bones M4A plan vs a realistic course to Universal Healthcare. There is not one person on this board who thinks every American should not have healthcare. Maybe Bernie Sanders plan can be tweaked to cover infrastructure and staffing and shortages, including drug shortages. Which happen all the time. Normal saline, heparin, essential medicine

This is what happened with the roll out of the ACA. Nursing leaders everywhere, both management and union, understood there was going to be a profound lack of healthcare providers, especially in rural areas and immediately took steps to empower nurses through education. NPs are covering many areas that have a lack of physicians,but their prescriptive authority varies from state to state, despite the PhD program. We are still doing this, so often nurses in the ICUs and the Med-surg floors are planning on working their way to their NP,, leaving a gap in the number of floor nurses.

Less people are being called to medicine, the money isn’t that great, so young doctors often specialize. Some of these specialties, like nephrology, while guaranteeing a comfortable lifestyle, does not pay off hundreds of thousand of dollars in student debt, and does not create actual wealth. So you have people looking at the eight to ten years of intense training, and veering off into another direction. Or, once they get a doctorate, go into research.

This a very real problem. Forgiving school debt would help-it would help everyone who isn’t wealthy, but a lot of people are looking the years of their youth gone, for not enough pay and not choosing to practice medicine.

Nursing is a different discipline entirely, but one that works in relative harmony with medicine.

There are also PAs stepping up to fill the already existing gaps

In other words, Bernie is promoting a unworkable plan. I understand, I think, why he does it, but when the time for action happens, when we get Democrats back in power, cleaning up this utter disaster of a administration, what we are going to see as viable isn’t M4A

And don’t even get me started about Medicare itself