The United States should implement Medicare for all to provide healthcare to every citizen without out-of-pocket costs.

“So in my view, I push very hard to introduce the legislation what we call Medicare for all expanding Medicare to cover every man, woman, and child without out-of- pocket expenses.”

She supports the implementation of Medicare for All as a national healthcare system.

“I had a kind of Amazing Grace type of moment because last time I thought well you know Medicare Medicaid we can get there and I did have a moment when I sort of got it yeah we need Medicare for all”

The United States needs to transition from a disease management system to a model that emphasizes health promotion and guarantees universal healthcare.

“We have to have universal healthcare. It's unconscionable that the richest nation on earth can't guarantee basic healthcare to all of its citizens.”

Melat Kiros claims that healthcare is a basic human right and a top priority that should be funded by repurposing the Pentagon budget.

“I think it's got to go to Medicare for all. Um when we're talking about what our values, what our priorities, I think our budget is a reflection of our moral compass and and what our priorities are for our society. And healthcare has to be at the top of that”

The Affordable Care Act is insufficient, and a single-payer system is necessary to provide universal, affordable health care.

“There's 45 million people ACA ACA expanded coverage that did not solve everything. We need to have a single payer system that can change that, and that's something that I advocate for on my show all the time.”

The current American healthcare approach is over-reliant on medication and fails to address the root causes of the nation's poor health and obesity.

“I know guys half my age that can't do anything that can't do you know you know 20 year olds that can't do push-ups sit-ups can't put like this is basic let's go back to our education system and teach good health let's teach the American families they're eating garbage”

The current healthcare system is fundamentally broken because it is designed to profit from chronic illness rather than prevent it.

“The system's not built to prevent. It's built to monetize and profiter off chronic disease.”

The healthcare system must shift toward a model that prioritizes proactive data-driven care and measurable outcomes to prevent disease rather than relying on episodic, symptom-based sick care.

“unfortunately much of healthc care has become sick care but the cure for this is a system better equipped to promote well-being and prevent illness in the first place the prescription for this cure is functional medicine”

Healthcare expenditure growth can potentially be brought in line with GDP growth over the next decade by addressing chronic disease through nutritional and physical activity changes rather than solely

“If we can bring those things in line I think we can make a difference and I I come back to which I learned from you more than anybody else the background nutritional environment if it changed could make a big difference over a 10-year period”

The healthcare system must shift from focusing on illness in silos to realigning around the consumer of health and care to improve quality, safety, and prevention.

“So to me the key piece that has to happen is that we have to change the focus from all the different silos of stakeholders that we have all of those people that I mentioned. So you know providers payers pharma all of those groups we have to shift it from their silos and their focus on illness to rea”

The Republican proposal to cut Medicaid will negatively impact millions of vulnerable Americans by stripping them of insurance coverage.

“we need to talk about how Republicans now want to pay for Trump's big, beautiful bill by making cuts to Medicaid that will cause millions of poor Americans to lose their health insurance and force millions more to face higher health care costs.”

The proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and indirectly Medicare represent a significant and harmful dismantling of the American social safety net.

“one of the things you have heard a lot about is, I suspect, is that the bill cuts about $715 billion in healthcare spending, mostly out of Medicaid, and it cuts about $300 billion out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP”

The Republican healthcare proposal is a flimsy, pathetic band-aid that lacks substance and will not resolve the cost of healthcare for Americans.

“Republicans have just released their flimsy excuse for healthc care reform after refusing to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that will now lead to premiums doubling for many Americans.”

Republican efforts to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) while cutting Medicaid are detrimental to public health and lead to increased medical bankruptcies.

“it is a one-way ticket to more bankruptcies uh because of health care, um people losing their health insurance, etc., etc.”

To reform the healthcare system, the government must eliminate perverse incentives by shifting toward price transparency and empowering consumers to be the CEOs of their own health.

“We need to make them the CEO of their own health so that they have responsibility and they're going to pay the cause if they get sick. Government pays but they then decide to allocate that how to allocate that money and then we need to make the system transparent and that's you know one of the thing”

Able-bodied people who are not working should not be provided free Medicaid coverage indefinitely.

“Now, when Medicaid was created, it never dawned on anybody's mind, never crossed their mind that they would be offering free health insurance to people who are able-bodied but not working.”

Republicans should write a bill promoting price transparency, competition across state lines, and professional pools to reduce healthcare costs.

“Write a bill. Price transparency in medical billing, competition across state lines, and professional pools. This will bring down prices literally overnight.”