Posted on 05/03/2019 6:42:23 AM PDT by xzins
The better argument is that Medicare for all would be a bad deal because it would cripple choice, quality, and the incentive for doctors to enter the profession. We can care for the less affluent, as we do now, without making medicine a government monopoly.
This is the heart of our predicament. The Left is at war with reality. They think it's optional.
Do they take it out if you aren't living in the country and will never use it? I haven't started collecting SS yet, even though I am eligible, and I am living in Spain.
Its because what the left advocates in politics is actually their religion!
Got my new tagline.
All they want is to be able to see a doctor. If someone else pays for it like the "evil, selfish, rich" they don't care.
Dims know this and are tapping into that.
not to worry: simply create money out of thin air and evade the consequences of hyperinflation.
The Dems are now bypassing the Western Europe model and are going for a Soviet styled system. With the generations that had deprivations of WW I, the Depression, WW II almost gone and the generation that grew up in the Cold War starting to pass quickly, nobody is left who understands the pure evils of Soviet totalitarianism.
Only gross ignorance created by the leftist take-over of public education explains the infatuation people now have with totalitarianism.
The left always denies empirical reality and lives in a utopian fantasyland. The odd thing is about half of the people mature out of that immature thinking when the reality of making a living smacks them on the side of the head. But half remain mired in their dreamworlds for their entire lives.
LOL. That hit me, too.
And don’t forget that Sanders also included long-term care in his version of Utopia. I imagine all the other central planners would agree if specifically asked.
I asked liberals this during the debate over Obamacare: What makes you think the government, once they completely take over health care, will not also look at the bottom line, just like an insurance company does?
Blank stares.
That is a load of crap. You just pay for it. duh. /s
Yes... it’s about grabbing an influential part of the economy by the throat.
There are a lot of ways to increase the availability of medical charity and cut-rate services on the side. Not everyone needs a deluxe plan to fare quite well.
Universal availability of next to nothing.
The Dems are giving the impression that Medicare is free for those eligible retirees.
They take $135 right out of my SS Check every year......and that’s after paying into Medicare since it began.
Medicaid is the ongoing freebie that has totally ruined the system.
Bingo. Also most don’t know that you can be taxed on SS if you earn over their “ allowed level of earnings” when you are on it.
Hows that for fairness. A tax on a tax....
Students shouldn’t be allowed to graduate high school without being tested on their knowledge of how Medicare/Medicaid actually works, how long you pay for it, and as stated above how you can be taxed on a tax.
the $135 is taken out every MONTH
The idea is simple, at least at a glance. Take taxpayer-funded health coverage such as Medicare and just expand it, until every American has the same type of program as
any congressman and senator.
Yeah, sure.
99% of Dem handout schemes are impossible. But that doesn’t stop them from being vote-getters with way too many Americans. Gimme gimme gimme and make “the rich” pay for it is the new American Way.
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