So said the female primary care physician and DEM candidate for the US Senate in South Carolina.

thehill.com - Medicare all annie andrews south carolina senate

{{ The Medicare for All Act, introduced by Sanders and Rep. [Pramila Jayapal ](thehill.com - Pramila jayapal)(D-Wash.) last year, has [17 co-sponsors](congress.gov - Senate bill) in the Senate and [114 in the House](congress.gov - House bill). 

But Andrews said Wednesday **the “next step” lawmakers should take is tacking on a public option to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and halting [Medicaid cuts](cbo.gov - Wyden Pallone Neal Letter) the Trump administration made under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.**

**The Democratic nominee also argued for “reinstituting” the ACA [premium subsidies](thehill.com - Aca obamacare subsidies expire) that [expired at the end of last year](thehill.com - Aca enrollment drop subsidies)** and “fully funding” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.

“At some point, we’ll be able to have a productive bipartisan conversation about how we actually build a healthcare system that meets the needs of every American,” Andrews noted. }}

Hopefully, this kind of innumeracy is just what's required to win an election in the South and she's not a corporate DEM taking the drug and insurance money.

Traditional Medicare operates with a 1.3% admin expense and 98.7% of the program budget goes to the purchase of actual medical services for beneficiaries.

Obamacare operates with a 20% skim rate to the insurer plus any profit their captive Pharmacy Benefit Manager earns through price gouging on drugs is booked as a "medical expense" rather than profit included under the 20% skim rate limit. The real skim rate is closer to 25%.

Until people understand the arithmetic, we're going to continue "circling the drain" as more of our of health care dollar is skimmed off to the crony capitalists.

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