Did I hear Bernie mention a payroll tax?

[thesquanderer]

72. re: "You are trying to take insurance away from 150 to 160 million people"

No, MFA tries to give insurance to MORE people. Seeing a change in your insurance is not the same as taking insurance away.

As I said elsewhere...

the biggest benefit of MFA is not what will happen to YOUR coverage, but the importance of having a society where the LESS FORTUNATE have coverage. Bernie does kind of make this point with his repeated mantra of health care being a human right, but I"m not sure the slogan's real meaning is actually sinking in.

Yes, MFA will be better for most people who have coverage today, even if only because they no longer have to worry about losing their coverage (or access to their current doctors) based on decisions made by their employers (who in many/most case may change your plan or even simply fire you at any time). People won't have to stay at a job for their health coverage, which dominoes to numerous other life decisions, like where they can live or where they can send their kids to school, or when they can retire.

But the biggest benefit comes when we step outside the (stereotypically more Republican) perspective of "what's in it for me, I've got mine" to "what's in it for society, and the people who are less fortunate than me." I guess it's a tougher sell, but I think that's what some of the non-MFA advocates are missing. Adding a public option to Obamacare is not sufficient.