The visibility on healthcare has never been more pronounced than it is right now, and part of that is that never has the republican base been brought into an awareness like there is right now. This is the time to fight alternative facts and rhetoric with real facts and numbers.
- This is the time to reflect the absurdly high cost of emergency care for those who are uninsured with the clearly stated reality of the vastly cheaper clinic setting wellness care.
- This is the time to properly spotlight the hideously overpriced profit system, and how much money in percentages goes to the upper echelon executives in the insurance, drug, and hospital systems. The admin costs rank somewhere around 40 to 50 percent higher than the admin costs of medicare.
- The nature of the drug industry profiles them in a hideously bad light in terms of the subsidies and grants they get, and the entirely arbitrary way prices are set on drugs. All of the drugs affecting the top problems like heart, stroke, cholesterol, and cancer are priced according to the bullshit numbers cooked up to make a case on how much money they save the industry. Drugs need to be priced on a cost involved and reasonable profit structure.
- This is the time to repeatedly profile the hidden costs of healthcare that hits older Americans, the costs that wipe out retirement savings and home equity, and more germane how many people have lost homes and had their savings wiped out.
- This is the time to strike home with basic numbers that the GOP simply cannot dispute due to their simplicity. How much money goes to the insurance industry, applied to how much they pay toward drugs, clinics, hospitals, and administration, with the corresponding number of recipients and cost per person covered. Compare this to the cost per person covered in other countries that cover all, and how the amount Americans pay applies to everyone in the country. The point being how badly we are being ripped off by the industry.
The concept of losing Obamacare is hitting home with republicans in a way nothing else ever could. This is the time that more of them than ever will be prone to actually hearing facts if they are laid out in the same manner that the GOP makes their cases. They keep messages short and designed to elicit responses.
This is the time to put a well defined universal healthcare set of numbers together to be compared with Obamacare and whatever the GOP manages to come up with. As an alternative Democrats need to do the work profiling the fixes that could make the ACA more cost effective, make the case that much of the cost saving parts of it have been blocked and obstructed by the GOP. Go after some of the low hanging fruit favoring the industry that has been built into the system by the industry.
Done correctly a percentage of the same ignorant people that voted for Trump could be easily led into universal if the numbers reflect the reality of what Americans currently pay for healthcare. We pay to cover everyone, the industry simply fails to deliver what we are paying for. Americans should not have to worry about losing their life savings because of a greedy healthcare system. This country is ready for changes like never before.