Bernie Sanders Says Medicare for All Would Provide "Quality Care" During Pandemic

[MineralMan]

17. His statements completely ignore the

issue of preparedness for a pandemic. That is the primary factor that is in play right now. Any healthcare system is likely to be overwhelmed by a pandemic, whatever its basis. No system is prepared for worst-case scenarios. Such preparations are simply not feasible under any system.

Once again, Senator Sanders is talking about the economics of healthcare, rather than the care itself. If there are insufficient supplies, tests, masks, ventilators when an unpredicted pandemic strikes those shortages are a reality that no amount of "quality care" or even money can overcome immediately.

Pandemics are disasters, and we are never fully prepared for disasters. If a tornado, for example, sweeps through your neighborhood, no preparations could have been sufficient to prevent its damage. A novel virus is something like that, but affects entire nations and even the entire planet. There are no preparations possible for such a thing.

Medicare for All will not prepare for the next pandemic. Why? Because we don't know what will be needed. Perhaps the next pandemic will be a hemorrhagic fever, for which preparations for a lethal respiratory virus would be useless.

Bernie is talking about economics, once again, when economics are not the issue.