Posted on 06/24/2019 9:47:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In case you missed it on Friday, Bernie Sanders confirmed that his single payer healthcare proposal would encompass illegal immigrants -- meaning that millions of people who violated the law to illegally enter sovereign US territory would be eligible for full access to the American healthcare system, courtesy of taxpayers' largesse. The Vermont Socialist, who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and flew a Soviet flag in his mayoral office, told a Miami audience late last week that his plan would "absolutely" cover non-citizens living inside the United States illegally. How many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates can dare disagree with this, especially those Senators who've co-sponsored his legislation?
"The insurance companies and their drug companies are starting to spend tens and tens of millions of dollars to fight against Medicare for All," Sanders said. "And we will organize the American people around the concept that all people in this country have the right to health care, and at the end of the day, we are going to win that struggle." "Senator, would you include the 11 million undocumented immigrants in that?" a moderator asked. "Absolutely," Sanders said. "Absolutely. When I talk about health care being a human right, last time I heard that undocumented people are human beings as well."
This would obviously encourage more illegal immigration, which increasingly seems like an affirmative policy goal of "progressive" politicians. According to non-partisan estimates, so-called "Medicare for All" would cost between $32 and $38 trillion in new spending over the program's first ten years. This would come close to doubling the existing annual federal budget, which is already on track to run trillion-dollar deficits each year. Financing this mind-bogglingly pricey scheme will require gigantic, across-the-board tax increases on middle-income families, working class Americans, and every business in America. That's undeniable math. And by House progressives' own admission, the program would also directly kill one to two million American jobs.
In addition to the lack of accountability, longer wait times, government rationing, and massive tax hikes, one of the biggest political and policy drawbacks of a BernieCare-style system is its compulsory elimination of private health insurance. As we've discussed on several occasions, virtually all private coverage would become illegal under "Medicare for All," with minor exceptions for procedures like elective cosmetic surgery. The approximately 180 million Americans whose healthcare arrangements come through their employers, or directly from insurers, would have their plans permanently canceled and banned by law. This is a very unpopular idea, and thus far very few Americans are aware that Democrats' single-payer legislation would mandate this outcome:
Ironically, current Medicare recipients would also be thrown off of the existing program and forced into the new national, one-size-fits-all scheme. As an unpleasant but necessary reminder, Medicare is we know it -- even prior to its potential exponential expansion -- is rapidly going insolvent. Here's Manhattan Institute scholar and federal budget expert Brian Riedl once again delivering a reality check to anyone willing to listen, shouting fiscal truths in the bipartisan wilderness:
Once you've ingested that information, I'll leave you with Joe Biden being reasonable about Social Security reform in the past (he'll certainly abandon his previous views on this issue, as he has on others), as well as Elizabeth's new call for tax-related reparations for LGBT people:
Here's a quick video of Joe Biden calling for cuts to Social Security over the years. pic.twitter.com/D8XCW04qp3— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) June 21, 2019
It wasn’t until marriage equality became law that gay & lesbian couples could jointly file tax returns—so they paid more in taxes. Our government owes them more than $50M for the years our discriminatory tax code left them out. We must right these wrongs. https://t.co/OZQcfVilSs— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 23, 2019
As usual, Warren's "plan for that" entails taxpayer coercion and government intervention. If she's really interested in tax relief for gay people, she should start by repudiating and apologizing for her calls to repeal the GOP tax law of 2017, from which the overwhelming majority of all LGBT citizens -- and all citizens -- are benefitting, in spite of Democrats' relentless campaign of disinformation. Don't hold your breath.
No... what makes immigrants IMMIGRANTS is that they IMMIGRATE...
Illegal aliens have documents ...fakey ones but they have them...
There are probably 50 million of them here now.
If you were a business who was paying 50-60% of an employee’s insurance, how much of a raise would give an employee if private insurance went away?
The answer is probably 0%. You would roll that money into your bottom line.
If you are paying $1100 a month in family insurance premiums—or about 20% of your gross income—do you think for a second that Medicare for all is going to cut your monthly expense?
Here is what will happen:
1. Your company will get taxed an amount equivalent to their existing expense—or more.
2. Your total monthly tax bill will increase to the equivalent of your previous insurance expense—plus a higher Medicare tax.
There is no way that the average person, making $55,000 to $65,000 a year is going to get away with a lower tax bill.
There is no way to make this happen without significant rationing of healthcare.
At best it would be Medicaid for All.
Most likely, it would be Medicaid for those willing to wait hours in a clinic for care.
Invaders, idiot, invaders.
Democrats: All the expensive stuff in life will be free!
Citizens: How will you pay for it?
Democrats: By extorted, borrowed and printed money.
Citizens: What happens when that runs out?
Democrats: Praise ourselves mightily for trying and have formerly undocumented immigrants care for our mansions in exchange for beds in the attics and leftovers.
Bernie cares more about foreign invaders than A driven citizens.
Who the h3ll knows anymore? That 11 million figure was tossed about when Bush II was president over a decade ago. Maybe one million have earned enough to retire and go home (though I doubt it), another 40 million have either come to take their places or popped out as anchor babies, so your guess is as good as any.
Senility is a sad thing to observe.
Not on my dime Bernie.
millions of people who violated the law to illegally enter sovereign US territory would be eligible for full access to the American healthcare system, courtesy of taxpayers’ largesse.
The Pols just keeping adding to our grandchildren’s credit card balances, and they have no voice or choice :(
Is congress exempt? Who is?
it fiugures that after working 40 some years, when I retire next year, they'll be nothing for me if Bernie gets his way...
My thought as well. It’s be nice if there were only 11 million illegal aliens living here.
Good thing all that money will come out of your pocket, Bernie.
Bernie Sanders government = Chernobyl 2019 mini series. Incompetent at everything but scared to death of the next higher authority.
They’ll make sure they get free abortions and sex change operations.
Bernie represents Vermont. Vermont has a population of 626,299 as of 2018. His constituency is that of a mayor of a mid-sized city. Vermont’s median age — half the population is older and half younger — was 42.9 last year, the third highest in the nation and well above the national median of 38. Those people need a lot of entitlements. It isn’t very diverse either.
Nationally, just over 60 percent of the population is non-Hispanic white. In Vermont, it’s 93 percent. Vermont’s black, Asian, and Hispanic populations are each about 2 percent of the total. The irony!
And for all his vaunted talk about democracy he’s a US Senator, who represents a state, not people.
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