" You just pay for it with money...like, you know...money...tee hee hee."
Posted on 11/06/2018 9:02:25 AM PST by bgill
New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a quick answer when asked how Americans would pay for the 'Medicare for all' plan she and other socialist-leaning Democrats favor: "Just pay for it." In an interview with Jorge Ramos last week, Ocasio-Cortez was asked how she would pay for the multi-billion dollar health care plan promoted by liberal lawmakers like Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Ramos noted critics say the the program would be "more expensive" than the current system, to which she answered that people would "just pay for it." “People often say, like, how are you going to pay for it and I find the question so puzzling because ‘How do you pay for something that’s more affordable? How do you pay for cheaper rent?’ You just pay for it,” she said. “We’re paying more now.” According to recent studies, the program, first introduced by Sanders over the summer, would increase government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years.
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What an absolute nitwit.
The answer is “the rich”, of course.
Who pays for the ink and toner for the xerox machine that prints all the free money?
There is no doubt that it starts as medicare for all. And in a couple of years they begin means testing it. And that means any decent legal citizen with a job doesn’t get it, but illegals, crackheads, single welfare mons, basement dwelling millenals etc get it and we pay for it for them. That is their answer.
Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences must be so proud of her.
Policies is hard.
It's troooooooo.
It may not be her money, but if she's in gummint, who cares? The FED will print up more for her and her ilk.
My town’s only grocery store in the middle of Texas on a normal Tuesday.
Does this IDIOT never read? Medicare is supposed to be BROKE in a few years. Unless they can stop the $65 BILLION FRAUD YEARLY. VA and Military Tricare Prime/Life are all riddled with Fraud.
Sure, with what, your Visa card?
Occasional Kotex, Mad Max and Nasty Pelosi. True representatives of the Democrap party.
Revvin’ up her imagination
Listen to her howlin’ roar
Socialist under tension
Beggin’ you to tax and spend
Highway to the Crazyzone
Right up to the Crazyzone
Headin’ into Congress
Spendin’ for new benefits, alright
She got them jumpin’ out their seats
And beggin’ for handouts
Highway to the Crazy Zone
Ride into the Crazy Zone
You’ll never know what socialism will do
Until you take it as far as you can go
You’ll never know till it’s too late
Just ask Venezuelans if it’s so!
" You just pay for it with money...like, you know...money...tee hee hee."
She only has to be smarter than the people who vote in her district.
That must be a really low hurdle, because this gal is dumber than a bag of hammers.
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