In 2008 I was a Clinton supporter throughout most of the primary season

[thesquanderer]

69. Medicare, etc.

re:

" I have gotten the feeling some may think it will be without any cost but it isn't true."

Agreed.

re:

" I would like to see the cost of Medicare going down, this may be the priority and then get a national health insurance."

I don't see Medicare cost going down, because the size of the trust find is already declining. I think the only way it could possibly go down for some is to get everyone into the system and lower medical costs and/or raise total available funds overall. In other words, national health insurance may be the best route to get the individual cost of Medicare down. I don't know that it would happen, but I don't see any other likely way it could happen. I mean, how would you suggest financing the cost of what you want (Medicare costs per person going down), if not by expanding it into a universal system? Though honestly, I wouldn't expect it to go down regardless, at least in the near term. Nobody is campaigning on reducing what we as individuals pay into these systems. Well, no Dem, anyway. Are you sure you're in the right party?

Seriously, that is kind of the distinction when it comes to social programs... Repubs often want to cut what people pay and also cut benefits; Dems want to maintain or increase benefits, but not cut what people pay. Or as they say, you generally can't have your cake and eat it too. Maybe, if we get universal health care, there will eventually be enough surplus to reduce individual costs, but I don't see it happening now.

As for regime change, the only reason it came up is that you listed ILA as a bad vote. Maybe it is... nobody is claiming that anyone gets every position right 100% of the time. But if you're going to suggest that Hillary would make the better decisions of the two (as in your post #29 that started this thread), it doesn't really make sense to list "bad" Sanders positions that were the same as Hillary's positions.