The improved Medicare-for-all approach would
eliminate the greatest waste in the health care system: the needless
costs imposed by the private health insurers. These firms impose
hundreds of billions of dollars of excess cost on us via their
excessive profit-taking and executive compensation, their marketing
expenses, their vast bureaucracies devoted to denying care, and their
imposition of massive paper-pushing obligations on actual health care
providers.
                        It is not for lack of policy justification or
moral force that Americans continue to suffer from a malfunctioning
health care system. Our failure to have adopted improved Medicare for
all is due entirely to the political power of the health insurance
industry.
                        That political power can be overcome, however,
by a grassroots movement that musters enough of its own strength. The
country cannot survive the ongoing reign of the private health
insurance industry, and it will not.
Public Citizen Health Care for all