America is the richest country on earth and the only major developed nation that won't guarantee its people healthcare. A new Yale study found Medicare for All could save the U.S. $1 trillion a year — and 114,000 lives. 65% of voters, across party lines, support it. So why isn't it happening?

What I am seeing right now as a hospital worker is that people are getting care and ignoring the bill. In most states medical bills don’t hurt like they used to, people ignore collections calls and let their tab run up. This is mainly going to hurt hospitals. Hospitals won’t be able to keep staff, they’ll close clinics, they’ll deny more patients care because there is no guarantee hospitals will get paid.

During the boom of ACA, we were so busy scheduling people, and ACA guaranteed hospitals were going to get paid.

medicare for all + food stamps would boost our economy so much.

Probably because all the politicians get funded by the CEOs that benefit from corporate healthcare

It's not about finances. It's about getting rid of certain people.

The $1 trillion not spent on healthcare doesn't just simply disappear and not end up in the economy. It would be money that citizens can spend elsewhere. The shareholders and private pharmaceutical and insurance companies are hoarding the wealth, not equally distributing it back into the economy.

Also dead people can't contribute to the economy so allowing 114,000 to die each year from lack of care doesn't seem great.

It's about profit, not care. Healthcare and insurance shouldn't be for profit. Pharmaceutical companies don't make money if you're healthy. Allowing lobbyists to influence and bribe politicians shouldn't be allowed.

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From what I've seen, it is because much of the US is individualistic. I've read and heard so many times people almost proudly saying they don't want their money to go pay for other people's healthcare and such. As long as that mentality is still present at scale, nothing will change for the better. And unfortunately there is a lot of influencing going on from various groups to keep people thinking like this, e.g. by painting socialism as an evil thing.

We are pissing away all of the money on a multi-trillion dollar per year military industrial complex. Which makes us less safe not more, and is a large money laundering scheme for politically connected defense contractors. It's criminal. We should cut out military budget at least in half, then in half again - and we would still spend more than any other country in the world on military.

why isn't it happening?

Because it isn't the ruling class that's going to save that $1T; they will lose $$$. And since our govt is owned by the ruling class, no matter how popular it is, we will not get it.

This can be fixed if we can get a law that doesn't give congress members healthcare.

They must find their own plans, get denied just like we do despite paying premiums, etc.

The issue is our country is REALLY in the toilet right now. To fix healthcare, we would have to fix the food industry. Limit the amount of sugar, fat, sodium in foods, give people more days off to rest so that they can look after their health, etc.

We NEED Medicare for All, and so many things. But it would help Americans more than the rich, so it's never going to happen because our country's system of governance is too old for it's own good.