LOL! Warren campaign says she's looking for other revenue options for MFA, won't say what

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69. That will not fly with millions who have affordable and good quality plans through employers or

retirement benefits. Although it is true that not all employer-provided or retirement insurance plans (Medicare supplemental) are in an affordable range, but come at financial sacrifice, union negotiated plans are. You can’t pay people back the premium in salary to get them to give these up.

Of course people should be altruistic. Just because in retirement I pay zero premiums and zero for Medicare, have excellent coverage, paid a fraction of the premium while employed, why should I not want others to have what I have potentially, and pay more taxes—lots more?

Well, why should I when we can improve Obamacare by bringing down the premium costs and other tweaks, offer an affordable public option, expand Medicaid, close up the Medicare coverage gap, and cover those left uninsured through subsidy or a sliding-scale clinic system—steps that get us to universal healthcare with the most expedience and less tax raise?

Another doable change is to regulate private insurance so that in emergency and catastrophic care situations out of network costs are paid.

Incrementalism? If incremental, less costly, more doable, quicker changes get us to the same place—providing good and affordable healthcare to all—why not?

Otherwise, I and million others pay at least 50 percent taxes and probably incur out of pocket expenses as many do in single payer countries to get the same quality of care we have now. Unions negotiated these benefits as part of a compensation package we worked for. It is a hard sell to ask folks to pay that much more in taxes and exchange their current plans for an unknown system to be put in place at some unknown future time.

With an election at stake, we don’t need a deal-breaker. I will vote blue no matter, but millions others may not see it my way.