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In reply to the discussion: This is the real reason most Americans file for bankruptcy [View all]moondust
(19,961 posts)I watch the debates and can't help thinking it's a waste of time getting dragged into the weeds over the different health care proposals. Health care is simply too technical and complex for a general audience given the very limited amount of debate time. Bernie sometimes mentions all the other countries with successful M4A type systems that are cheaper and have better outcomes but I don't recall the other candidates bringing that up.
I would tell them to forget wasting too much debate time on the details and hammer home the fact that all those other countries are doing much better and Americans could, too, but it will require overcoming the anti-government/anti-taxation/profits-over-people propaganda of what FDR called the "economic royalists," AKA "predatory capitalists"--AKA the Republican Party.