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Wait, Koch brothers are not the source of all evil anymore?
Former Clinton administration adviser Kenneth Thorpe... told the Associated Press on Monday. “Even though people don’t pay premiums, the tax increases are going to be enormous. There are going to be a lot of people who’ll pay more in taxes than they save on premiums.”/
THe insurance industry would be left those supplemental plans as a product to sell. Ths giving the added benefit of not totally destroying the insurance industry.
dramatic change needs to be REALLY well thought out
Be careful for what you wish for.
EVeryone 65 and over already has medicare or medicare plus supplemental. So we already know how it works. And that's the period of life when people actually use their health care.
Point noted, but you're talking about only 15% of the population "potentially" using medicare now
why Corporations weren't for medicare for all.marcus says
Perhaos they finally figured out that there is be a compromise way to do both.
The ... report ... found that even doubling all federal individual and corporate income taxes would not cover the costs of Sanders’ Medicare for All plan.
Nobody should be forced into the national health system out of "fairness."
HeadSet saysNobody should be forced into the national health system out of "fairness."
I do not think it can work without everyone being forced into the system. Healthier people will choose to either forego insurance at all or they will buy cheap private insurance. Result, state system will be stuck with sick fat people who do not pay enough.
Seems to me it must be at least 70%, but I will admit that's a guess. It must be more than half.
Seems to me it must be at least 70%, but I will admit that's a guess. It must be more than half.
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