Students who take our introductory course will explore Medicare for All as a topic for their debates. A sample of some of the basic arguments the students will be exposed to is here.
Full Argument Outline. Basic Bibliography Introductory Lecture Register
Pro
*Premature death
*Pandemics/Superbugs/COVID-19
*Opioids (M4A solves root cause of opioid epidemic and private insurance encourages prescribing pain killers rather than surgery).
*Ethics
- Moral responsibility for care
- Equality
- (a) Race
- (b) Gender
*COVID
*Health care costs
- High salaries
- Profits
- Administrative overhead
- No bulk purchasing
- M4All reduces
- Health care costs hurt the economy
*Economy
- Health care costs reduce consumer spending
- Reducing employer health care costs increases wages
- M4All is a stimulus
- Increased productivity
- Job switching
- M4All is an economic stimulus
Con
Collapse private insurance industry, massive unemployment from it
Tax increases bad
Reduce profits for pharmaceutical industry
Fraud
Hospital Collapse (reducing payments to hospitals collapses hospitals)
— rural hospitals
— urban hospitals
— public hospitals
Debt/Deficit
Doctors quit
Brain Drain
— doctors quit, have to hire more foreign doctors
— increasing demand generally means more foreign doctors hired
Not enough space
Market key to medical innovation