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In reply to the discussion: The cost of single payer .... the math at my house. [View all]Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)43. It sounds reasonable to me. Of course I'm not a health care bandit either.
The profiteers stand to lose.
They should be thankful for the undeserved largess they have received for decades. Instead, I fully expect them to go Full Asshole on us making everyone miserable and fighting single payer all the way. Can hardly blame them because they have been receiving free money all this time. They have come to believe they are somehow deserving of a cut of health care money.
The opposition will probably employ some of the same Tea Party faces and tactics that we all know and love so well.
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I believe that the real reason behind being for Single Payer is that the current level of profits
djean111
Jan 2016
#1
The ones who scream the loudest for this system are usually "Pro-Life" as well...
Moostache
Jan 2016
#65
In Europe, dental care is covered. I think vision is too, but really discretionary things
JDPriestly
Jan 2016
#88
What is your plan to universal healthcare? How is it b etter than Bernies' Medicare for all?
Vincardog
Jan 2016
#8
If you read Bernie's plan, you will see that it's much better and cheaper
passiveporcupine
Jan 2016
#82
Sander's plan builds on the already existing Medicare system by expanding it to everyone.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#19
If this country can wage two wars simultaneously surely we can a get a health care system up
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#25
People a lot more knowledgeable and better informed than I am will work out the details.
Enthusiast
Jan 2016
#39
No of course it won't be that easy, but it won't be like starting over with the ACA either.
A Simple Game
Jan 2016
#69
Who said anything about letting insurance companies participate in single-payer?
SickOfTheOnePct
Jan 2016
#67
If you know of a plan that "builds on what's there" and gives us universal healthcare,
rhett o rick
Jan 2016
#85
NO Clinton supporters are "attacking universal healthcare" at all. I don't know where you get that.
George II
Jan 2016
#77
Inasmuch as you threw out a negative (and false) comment about Clinton supporters....
George II
Jan 2016
#81
Most everyone in the U.S.A. who has medical insurance thinks they have good insurance...
hunter
Jan 2016
#36
With the subsidies, much of that money the insurances take in is tax payers money.
Autumn
Jan 2016
#13
Correct. Just imagine the massive bureaucracy running those insurance corporations. WASTE.
joanbarnes
Jan 2016
#18
Can you deduct medical expenses from your taxes if they are ten percent?
senseandsensibility
Jan 2016
#31
Don't you think the cost would go down when healthy people are entered into the mix?
Vinca
Jan 2016
#58
Even at the worst case extreme I'd rather pay my entire current insurance premium as a tax
GoneFishin
Jan 2016
#50
The Clinton machine in the pockets of insurance companies, with the ACA, a republican plan.
ViseGrip
Jan 2016
#64
I'm on chemo myself and although I am fortunate enough to still have reasonably decent
Douglas Carpenter
Jan 2016
#70