Posted on 03/27/2017 8:07:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Republican repeal and replace bill was a “disastrous piece of legislation” designed to give tax breaks to the wealthy, and it deserved to die in the House, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont socialist, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
He also admitted that the Democrats’ Obamacare has “serious problems,” including premiums and deductibles that are too high and areas of the country where people don’t have a choice of insurance plans.
“Ideally, where we should going is to join the rest of the industrialized the world and guarantee health care to all people as a right. And that’s why I’m going to introduce a Medicare-for-all single-payer program,” Sanders said. …
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Sander’s OPM Care.
Sure its just another opressive tax disguised as a a healthcare program... but i am Bernie Sanders and i would have been President if it wasn’t for Hillary and What’s her face Schultz!
A lot of people forget that the US capitalist system is the reason we have new drugs, medical equipment and procedures. Very few of these things are developed outside of the US.
A drug company might be working on 20 new drugs. Of them, only 10 might turn out to be feasible. They spend millions sending them through testing. Only a couple of them will pass the testing and some of them might end up not being financially viable because a competitor has a cheaper or better version. Once the new drug is developed, the company has to spend millions on marketing it in order to get physicians to prescribe it. The US consumers end up paying for the development of the drug, as well as the development of the failed drugs. Without a profit-incentive, there’s no reason to risk hundreds of millions on new drugs.
Other countries get the advantages of the new drugs without all the overhead involved.
Umm... Medicare (for seniors and disabled) is paid into during the entire working years of and by the person who eventually, if they live long enough, receives it and then continues to pay after that.
Exactly how can a single payer plan work that does not mandate compulsory payment by each and every single person in America with no exceptions? Answer: It can’t.
Every country that has this bilks the taxpayers out of over 50% in taxes and probably much more in some. It’s a bottomless pit of government intrusion and control over our lives and only a true Marxist/Communist would dare propose it. Bernie dude; you are way beyond a clueless naive socialist.
Those with the most to gain in a SPS are the people so good luck with that Bernie.
Probably exempt all federal govt workers
Well said, but the advantages they get are not always based upon their creation but paying for that generic or cut version the US sends them. Further more, they have been given a free pass in exporting to us some of there “products” with little effort and expense.
An example of this is supplements. There are a lot out there that the FDA, the AMA, or any safety group as high as OSHA will not endorse. And a lot of it is because it would cost the industry over $3 Million in research and marketing to get it out for use, like you mentioned. But even if the industry wanted to get into it, patent laws would murder them along with the side effects in them that the US takes into consideration and charges the industry not to get to the public that other countries don’t consider on their finished product. Like ephedra, a known dietary supplement sold over the counter, and guerana, again sold over the counter, equals racing heart rate and possible heart attack death.
And some drugs wete nasty when they started. Tobacco, alcohol, opium, DDT, and a whole list of recreational drugs.....all were drugs having other uses that prospered mankind, (supposedly).
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Sanders is positioning himself to run again in 2020.
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