Several. 1) Medicare for all would help them and a lot of others in untold ways. All of us would be able to be more free and mobile in terms of career selection. If one is being abused or taken advantage of in the workplace, you could leave and seek other work without fear that you'd incur medical costs you couldn't afford. I am a straight man, but that didn't stop me from being both sexually harassed (by both men and women) and otherwise subjected to a hostile workplace on more than one occasion. I would have been able to leave if it weren't for my (and my wife's) healthcare having been tethered to my continued employment.
For the very poor there is medicaid. It existed before Obamacare. I've been on it for since 2002 when I retired. I'm pretty healthy and I haven't been to the doctor much so I can't say if it is a good program or not.
And I'm not sure I understand your issues with the current health insurance system. How is Obamacare not working? I thought it covers preexisting conditions?
I am leery of medicare for all because of the long wait times in countries like the UK and Canada. I keep hearing stories about how people in Canada come to the US for health care. I'm not saying we don't need a health care system that takes care of people just that I think we should avoid systems with known problems.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-co...dians-increasingly-come-to-us-for-health-care
Crossing the Border for Care
Frustrated by long waits, some Canadians are heading to the U.S. for medical treatment.
I've heard Singapore has a great system. I'd rather see the US adopt something that works well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
Healthcare in Singapore is supervised by the Ministry of Health of the Singapore Government. It largely consists of a government-run universal healthcare system with a significant private healthcare sector. In addition, financing of healthcare costs is done through a mixture of direct government subsidies, compulsory savings, national healthcare insurance, and cost sharing.
According to global consulting firm Towers Watson, Singapore has "one of the most successful healthcare systems in the world, in terms of both efficiency in financing and the results achieved in community health outcomes". This has been attributed to a combination of a strong reliance on medical savings accounts, cost sharing, and government regulation.
2) Medical debt forgiveness which is self-explanatory in how it would be helpful. 3) Tuition-free college would make higher education accessible to the rural poor, which would assist them in individuating out from under the patriarchal sword and cross egregore that keeps them feeding it with their precious scarce life-force. Their current worldview can only be dismantled with education.
What is their world view?
Without that education there is no hope of overcoming the fear-based adherence that keeps them working against their own best interests (this is a hard sell and will come off as patronizing, and I don't know how to get around that - recall Obama's comment that these folks cling to their religion and their guns and you'll see how pointing it out makes them cling all the harder).
What exactly does it mean "cling to their religion and their guns" and why is it a problem?
What is the evidence that pointing it out made them cling harder? Did church attendance go up?
Did you mean this:
https://money.cnn.com/2016/01/06/news/obama-gun-control-sales/index.html
Obama is the best gun salesman in America
Religion has many benefits to the individual:
Andrew Sims, past president of Royal College of Psychiatrists: "The advantageous effect of religious belief and spirituality on mental and physical health is one of the best kept secrets in psychiatry and medicine generally. ... In the majority of studies, religious involvement is correlated with well-being, happiness and life satisfaction; hope and optimism; purpose and meaning in life; higher self-esteem; better adaptation to bereavement; greater social support and less loneliness; lower rates of depression and faster recovery from depression; lower rates of suicide and fewer positive attitudes towards suicide; less anxiety; less psychosis and fewer psychotic tendencies; lower rates of alcohol and drug use and abuse; less delinquency and criminal activity; greater marital stability and satisfaction… We concluded that for the vast majority of people the apparent benefits of devout belief and practice probably outweigh the risks.
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2015/03/video-lecture-by-john-lennox-explains.html#lennox_individual
Research shows that belief in the paranormal and religion can be conducive to the health and well being of people. These beliefs can help people cope with grief, divorce, job loss, the fear of death, particularly in the terminally ill, and can deter suicide. Furthermore, research also shows that having meaning in life is necessary for people to thrive.
http://ncu9nc.blogspot.com/2012/09/skepticism-big-lie-activist-skeptics.html