Majority Backs ‘Medicare for All’ Replacing Private Plans, if Preferred Providers Stay

abandonconflict

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Another right wing talking point

I notice a trend. Nobody can argue against universal healthcare without invoking right wing talking points.

It won't cost the average American more, it'll cost those at the very top more, those who earn the most. I'm pretty sure they can afford it

It won't change your doctor, it will only change your provider. Every doctor in the US will accept Medicare, so you will be able to choose any doctor you want

It doesn't eliminate private insurance, it eliminates duplicate insurance. If you want/need something M4A doesn't provide, you're completely free to buy it yourself

It won't cost more to you at the price of consumption or to the provider at the price of sale. Every modern country on Earth implements universal healthcare at half the cost per capita
No, it will raise taxes dramatically for everyone who makes more than 30k per year annually. I'm talking about Bernie's plan. For people making between 30k-60k it's up to double their current tax rate. Look it up. Bernie's bill is shit. It will also encourage providers and drug manufacturers to charge more since it's all coming out of taxpayer dime. If you have something better to cite and link, go for it.

Bernie's plan will cost between 32.6 trillion and 49 trillion dollars in the first 10 years while doctors take a pay cut. He doesn't say who will pay for it though. He just admits that almost everyone will pay increased taxes. I think he intentionally leaves the math out of it.

The price tag is staggering.
 

Padawanbater2

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No, it will raise taxes dramatically for everyone who makes more than 30k per year annually. I'm talking about Bernie's plan. For people making between 30k-60k it's up to double their current tax rate. Look it up. Bernie's bill is shit. It will also encourage providers and drug manufacturers to charge more since it's all coming out of taxpayer dime. If you have something better to cite and link, go for it.
Where is your evidence Sanders bill will double the current tax rate of people making 30K-60K? Cite it here in your next reply
Bernie's plan will cost between 32.6 trillion and 49 trillion dollars in the first 10 years
We currently spend $35 trillion and 30 million fewer Americans receive access to affordable healthcare
He just admits that almost everyone will pay increased taxes.
The rich will pay increased taxes. As they should, since they earn more. The upper middle class might pay a bit more in taxes, but they can afford it also, and the overwhelming majority of them are not heartless enough to be able to condemn poor people for it. They're all very good people. Strong progressives
The price tag is staggering.
The price tag in America is twice as much as the universal healthcare havens you fear, and we cover far fewer people..
 

abandonconflict

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Fogdog

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If polls don't really mean anything, why don't you tell that to Fogdog or Buck when they post polls they think supports neoliberal centrist positions? You only seem to chime up about the value of polls when one gets posted that concludes the opposite..
Your cherry picked polls are unconvincing. Plenty of other polls and simple common sense say otherwise. Berinie's plan represents a failure in his leadership..

Bernie quite purposefully left out a budget and means of payment from his plan for exactly the reasons AC has detailed.

Improve the ACA and include the public option to buy-in to Medicare.
 
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UncleBuck

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Where is your evidence Sanders bill will double the current tax rate of people making 30K-60K? Cite it here in your next reply

We currently spend $35 trillion and 30 million fewer Americans receive access to affordable healthcare

The rich will pay increased taxes. As they should, since they earn more. The upper middle class might pay a bit more in taxes, but they can afford it also, and the overwhelming majority of them are not heartless enough to be able to condemn poor people for it. They're all very good people. Strong progressives

The price tag in America is twice as much as the universal healthcare havens you fear, and we cover far fewer people..
I can’t take anything you say seriously
 

Padawanbater2

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Bernie quite purposefully left out a budget and means of payment from his plan
Sanders has explicitly stated his means of payment to fund Medicare for All

Have you ever actually addressed the way Sanders plans to pay for it, or instead always argued that he just didn't think about how to pay for it?

Improve the ACA
Improve the ACA how? What should the ultimate goal in regards to healthcare be for the Democratic party?
include the public option to buy-in to Medicare.
Why would wealthy people choose to buy into Medicare?

Do you want to answer that yet or just keep avoiding the question?
 

Fogdog

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Sanders has explicitly stated his means of payment to fund Medicare for All

Have you ever actually addressed the way Sanders plans to pay for it, or instead always argued that he just didn't think about how to pay for it?


Improve the ACA how? What should the ultimate goal in regards to healthcare be for the Democratic party?

Why would wealthy people choose to buy into Medicare?

Do you want to answer that yet or just keep avoiding the question?
If Medicare were better than private healthcare why wouldn't they choose it?

The ACA needs to be expanded to include everybody who can't afford health care insurance. They need to re-instate the funding for people who can't pay for the ACA in the original contract that Republcians refused pay. This isn't rocket science, Pad.

Quit lying to us with those stupid cherry picked polls. Forcing people to give up medical plans they like for Medicare and then paying $10,000 more than they are already paying is a shit stupid idea.
 

topcat

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Medicare for everyone who wants (needs) it. Like your plan? Keep it. -Eric Swalwell, presidential candidate.
 

bartow

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Medicare for all will do for everyone what it does for seniors. Everyone will get abbreviated doctors visits. Usually a doctor won't be involved at all. Doctoring is more profitable under Medicare if the physician functions as a clerk. You will be expected to participate in every medical feeding frenzy on federal money that your doctor can discover. The death rate in the country is already increasing. Medicare for all will accelerate the rising death rate. This is what people want and they are likely to get it. However, don't expect it to be healthcare because it isn't.
 

UncleBuck

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Medicare for all will do for everyone what it does for seniors. Everyone will get abbreviated doctors visits. Usually a doctor won't be involved at all. Doctoring is more profitable under Medicare if the physician functions as a clerk. You will be expected to participate in every medical feeding frenzy on federal money that your doctor can discover. The death rate in the country is already increasing. Medicare for all will accelerate the rising death rate. This is what people want and they are likely to get it. However, don't expect it to be healthcare because it isn't.
What a shitty stupid post
 

Herb & Suds

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Medicare for all will do for everyone what it does for seniors. Everyone will get abbreviated doctors visits. Usually a doctor won't be involved at all. Doctoring is more profitable under Medicare if the physician functions as a clerk. You will be expected to participate in every medical feeding frenzy on federal money that your doctor can discover. The death rate in the country is already increasing. Medicare for all will accelerate the rising death rate. This is what people want and they are likely to get it. However, don't expect it to be healthcare because it isn't.
Without Medicare most seniors would be dead already , so I think it must have some health benefits LOL
 

bartow

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Without Medicare most seniors would be dead already , so I think it must have some health benefits LOL
Some experiences don't make sense until folks go through the experience. A lot of seniors are dying prematurely already. Many of us are using things like orthomolecular medicine remedies that regular doctors are as much as forbidden to even mention. Cannabis cures are growing by leaps and bounds. People are staying alive despite diminished levels of care. If citizens want government funded healthcare, it needs to be without the skimming operations. That is possible only if citizens themselves write the bill themselves. When was the last time a bill was written by a senator, congressman or a group of citizens? I mean one that had a chance of passing. You will never come out ahead with a lobbyist inspired healthcare bill even though you are convinced that you will. Lobbyists are the world's best salesmen so it is no surprise that citizens buy into what they are selling.
 

UncleBuck

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Some experiences don't make sense until folks go through the experience. A lot of seniors are dying prematurely already. Many of us are using things like orthomolecular medicine remedies that regular doctors are as much as forbidden to even mention. Cannabis cures are growing by leaps and bounds. People are staying alive despite diminished levels of care. If citizens want government funded healthcare, it needs to be without the skimming operations. That is possible only if citizens themselves write the bill themselves. When was the last time a bill was written by a senator, congressman or a group of citizens? I mean one that had a chance of passing. You will never come out ahead with a lobbyist inspired healthcare bill even though you are convinced that you will. Lobbyists are the world's best salesmen so it is no surprise that citizens buy into what they are selling.
Oh, you’re one of these “cannabis cures everything, maaaaaaan!” hucksters
 
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