How to Fix our Healthcare System: Medicare for All? A Public Option? Other Ideas?

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This just happened:

Florida man returns from China, develops flu-like symptoms, does the responsible thing and gets tested to make sure he's not carrying coronavirus and putting others at risk. Requests the cheaper blood test instead of the CT scan the hospital recommends. Fortunately all he has is the flu. Then he gets billed $3,270, and more bills are coming. His insurance refuses to cover anything unless he can provide 3 years of medical records to prove his flu is not related to a pre-existing condition. Trump rolled back Affordable Health Care Act regulations that would have prevented this his first year in office.

How many Americans are going to skip getting tested in order to avoid situations like this because they're poorly insured or uninsured, and our medical care is outrageously expensive?

Even with what passes for decent insurance these days the deductibles are often so high people may choose not to.

Providing good affordable health care to all keeps us all safer. Lacking it puts us all at much greater risk.

A Miami man who flew to China worried he might have coronavirus. He may owe thousands.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/hea...240476806.html