2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYou all know that Medicare is not free health care right?
Medicare part A (hospital bed day) coverage has a deductible for every plan year. There is a daily cost for days over 60.
Part B has a premium based on income.
There is part D which has costs for prescriptions
Then there is the payroll deduction.
I guess Medicare for all will cost us too.
I don't think Bernie's single payer means taxing us then care is free.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Do you have any other "difficult" questions?
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I have studiously avoided any sort of attack on Hillary Clinton in discussing why I support Bernie Sanders. We dont know yet who our nominee will be and Id prefer whoever it is to be as strong as possible for the general. But now Im going to break that rule. Heres a Politico story in which the Clinton campaign attacks Bernie for proposing Medicare for all and the part that pisses me off does it in terms that could easily have come from Fox News or the Wall Street Journal with scare tactics about tax increases on the Middle Class and totally refusing to acknowledge the huge savings and efficiencies inherent in a single-payer system. I can live with Democrats disagreeing over single-payer, but when they adopt the framing of the far-right to do so, thats one step too far for me. An excerpt:
Bernie Sanders has called for a roughly 9-percent tax hike on middle-class families just to cover his health-care plan, said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, referring to legislation Sanders introduced in 2013, and simple math dictates he'll need to tax workers even more to pay for the rest of his at least $18-20 trillion agenda. If you are truly concerned about raising incomes for middle-class families, the last thing you should do is cut their take-home pay right off the bat by raising their taxes.
As any honest and reasonably intelligent (Non-Republican) person knows, the American worker is already paying the full cost of single-payer and more in the form of higher prices, lower wages, premiums, co-pays, deductibles, high drug prices and stagnant economic activity, among others. To speak only of increased taxes without acknowledging the reality of those myriad savings is simply to lie. Its a lie weve grown used to from Republicans. Im not willing to accept it from a Democrat.
DailyKos
To speak only of increased taxes without acknowledging the reality of those myriad savings is simply to lie.
...'Nuff said.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)For one it's bullshit on it's own. Two, due to the blatant in your face bullshit aspect, righties get to mock it. I mean it simply falls flat on face value.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)msongs
(67,395 posts)be useful
Armstead
(47,803 posts)It is more often used by right-wingers and by so-called "centrists" who are wedded to the status quo.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)And act like Sanders supporter after Sanders supporter haven't described it using the word "free." Seriously? And you are claiming I do. What in the world.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)No one calls it free
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)"No one calls it free." Lol
Autumn
(45,057 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Literally all over the place. I made no absolute statements. Your framing as if I have and using absolutes yourself. You do know there are literally over a thousand more links to something similar from people on this board who I firmly believe are very solid progressives and further left on the spectrum. Why you feel the need to do so, all while being making false assumptions. Armstead properly corrected them right there.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)just to try to discredit the candidate you don't want.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Autumn
(45,057 posts)Did you know that we pay taxes for the Obamacare subsidies so that people who can't afford to buy insurance from private companies can get health insurance, not health care? You are obviously fine with our tax dollars going to private corporations though, I would rather my tax dollars go to a government program that actually works than to fucking Humana.
Vinca
(50,267 posts)The deductible is foolishly small. My husband had a brief hospitalization last year and we owed a whopping $300. (And we don't have a supplemental policy of any kind.) I don't know why you insist on making Bernie's healthcare plans sound so horrible. He just wants everyone - to a person - able to get needed medical care.
Autumn
(45,057 posts)every month sucks.
Vinca
(50,267 posts)Autumn
(45,057 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Of course we do! Instead of premiums and high deductibles and out of pockets we pay higher taxes and small businesses are no longer saddled with the horrendous costs of health insurance.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)It's amazing all these other countries manage to provide universal public healthcare at lower per capita cost and with better outcomes. Too bad we can't do that because --words--