It's reckless for progressives to dismiss concerns over funding single payer as 'trolling'... [View all]

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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-single-payer-healthcare-funding-20170924-story.html

Opinion It's reckless for progressives to dismiss concerns over funding single payer as 'trolling'

To the editor: Call me a nitpicker, but yes, I am concerned about who will pay for single payer. I would love to see such a system in this country, but which Republican members of the House are going to vote to raise taxes or borrow money to pay for it? (“There are 3 types of single-payer ‘concern trolls’ — and they all want to undermine universal healthcare,” Opinion, Sept. 21)

Adam H. Johnson notes that Congress approved a 13% increase in our already bloated military budget from 2017, an $80 billion increase that could cover college tuition for every public university student for a year.

This is a great point, so I’ll use it to make a great suggestion: Let’s take that money out of the military budget and put it toward single payer.

Larry Arnstein, Santa Monica

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