US Healthcare

Americans Hate Their Private Health Insurance

Yep but... 

You won't see that in our healthcare debate because the only questions that make it through our corporate controlled media polls are those that ask something like "Do you like your healthcare". 

We do generally like our actual healthcare, the doctors and nurses that take care of us.

It's the rest of the system we hate, the insurance companies, the billing systems, the outrageous costs, etc.

That part of US healthcare is not to be spoken of in public.

A similar thing happened when Bernie was pushing universal healthcare. 

The media would ask people what they thought about a system that would take away private health insurance and since about 75% of people in the US don't really understand anything, they would immediately think "Oh no! I don't like that! I couldn't pay my medical bills without insurance" ... Never realizing that they wouldn't have any large medical bills under Bernie's system. 

So we get the headline "Voters don't want their private insurance taken away!"

You can safely ignore any poll that doesn't include questions like "Do you like dealing with your health insurance company?" or "Is your hospital's Billing department easy to deal with?"

This manipulation also clouds our Social Security/Medicare debate.

You can ignore claims about Social Security that lump it together with Medicare, like "Social Security and Medicare are going broke". 

Together the programs are a mess but they are separate programs that can be fixed/worked on individually. 

Social Security is not in that bad of shape and can be fixed with minor changes. 

Medicare is a mess but it's mostly due to our high medical costs. It's best chance to be fixed is with some kind of universal coverage that can get a handle on those costs, but ... see above.  

So anyway, fuck the corporate media.

The same social-media driven pissed-off undercurrent that led to Trump may also lead to good things.