Insurance executive that understands - Health insurance is a scam

Insurance companies employ people like me - like I used to be - to wage propaganda campaigns," Potter, who now advocates for Medicare for All, told Hill.TV on Thursday. "They employ large sales and marketing teams and employ legions of underwriters and doctors and nurses who are there primarily to say 'no' to us and our doctors when we need treatment."

"Those kinds of functions are not needed - no other country has a mechanism [as] we have," he added.

Nearly 386,000 people were employed by health insurance companies in 2018 alone, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some economists estimate that as many as 2 million jobs could be eliminated if the country shifts to a government-run system that would eliminate private insurance.

While Potter acknowledged this estimated job loss, he maintained that these health care workers could be retrained, adding that a Medicare for all program could also help "unleash a new era of entrepreneurship."

"Small businesses in this country are really disadvantaged because of our current system," Potter told Hill.TV. "More and more of them cannot offer benefits, so they are having a hard time finding workers and retraining them.

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• Insurance executive that understands - Health insurance is a scam (Views: 552, 2020-01-17, 5:36 am)
  • This guy is an advocate for universal healthcare after - he made his money already. (Views: 262, 2020-01-17, 5:43 am)
    • Fear of change - Insurance industry will not (Views: 263, 2020-01-17, 5:56 am)
      • No fear, just don't want socialism. - nm (Views: 246, 2020-01-17, 6:03 am)
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      • Whenever the govt takes over anything, the costs go - up. Look at student loan debt (Views: 298, 2020-01-17, 6:08 am)
        • Yep. Cost up; quality down. - Other than clogging up (Views: 235, 2020-01-18, 10:21 am)
        • And if you think the Medicare payroll tax is high now, - just wait until it's "free" (Views: 190, 2020-01-19, 12:20 pm)
      • "Fear of change?" Nope. We've - been here before. (Views: 220, 2020-01-17, 8:53 am)
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      • You gave a perfect description of - OBAMACARE DEBACLE (Views: 191, 2020-01-17, 5:13 pm)
    • Sounds like Sanders and Warren, too. They want - healthcare for illegals. What this (Views: 254, 2020-01-17, 6:37 am)
      • On top of this, they want to wipe out student loan debt, - and take money out of the equity (Views: 209, 2020-01-17, 6:50 am)
      • I don't pay attention to women like Lizzie. I learned that - when Madeleine Albright was (Views: 245, 2020-01-17, 8:00 am)
        • And they prefer to Sanders to Warren. Guess that makes - Democrats sexist. (Views: 210, 2020-01-17, 9:33 am)
      • Sanders and Warren - the party of no genders fighting - about which gender is electable. (Views: 252, 2020-01-18, 12:42 pm)
    • It's obviously not important to the Democrats. They spend - their time going after Trump. (Views: 218, 2020-01-17, 7:16 am)
    • There will be no desire to contain costs once the govt - takes over. What the hospitals (Views: 212, 2020-01-18, 7:24 am)
  • Trading one third party payer for another will not reduce - health care costs. Potter currently (Views: 270, 2020-01-17, 5:45 am)
    • You obviously do not work IN healthcare - Sm (Views: 283, 2020-01-17, 5:53 am)
      • I do work in health care. Medicare can deny treatment. - You can appeal. Do you not know (Views: 281, 2020-01-17, 6:01 am)
        • Medicare For All is not same Medicare - As now (Views: 261, 2020-01-17, 6:34 pm)
          • Medicare for All is Medicaid and Medicaid does send - out denial letters. (Views: 234, 2020-01-18, 5:05 am)
            • Just think of all the things taxpayers will get to pay for, - transgender services, etc. But (Views: 245, 2020-01-18, 5:33 am)
          • But they will be if Medicaid for All is implemented. - That's all "Medicare for All" is, (Views: 243, 2020-01-18, 5:37 am)
          • That is true, but once that supplemental is gone the - government WILL deny claims. (Views: 238, 2020-01-18, 5:41 am)
        • “Coverage” doesn’t matter much. Medicaid (mfa) takes - forever to pay for anything and (Views: 261, 2020-01-18, 5:35 am)
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      • Concierge still requires health insurance - To cover (Views: 250, 2020-01-18, 8:04 am)
        • That is what insurance is supposed to be for. Major - medical, not doctor's visits. (Views: 250, 2020-01-18, 9:13 am)
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  • Even Medicare doesn't pay for everything. Medicaid - covers things even Medicare (Views: 390, 2020-01-17, 6:39 am)
    • If people think they are going to get everything covered - under Medicare For All, they are (Views: 271, 2020-01-18, 6:28 am)

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