Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumBiden's health care plan is a potent weapon against Trump
Yahoo Finance, July 15, 2019:
Joe Biden can now tell voters he wants to fix the health care system without blowing up what works.
Biden, the front-runner among Democratic presidential candidates, unveiled a health care plan on July 15 that would keep private insurance in place and offer Americans a new public option if they wanted it. Its a repudiation of the Medicare for all plan favored by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and others, which would end employer-provided coverage and force everybody into a government plan.
Bidens plan would let anybody buy into a new public plan, similar to Medicare, with subsidies for lower-income people. It would also tweak the Affordable Care Act by offering new financial assistance for families who earn too much to qualify for aid under the current program. But if both programs were in place, the new public option might eventually become more appealing and subsume the ACA.
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Overall, the Biden health care plan would cost about $75 billion per year, which Biden would pay for be repealing some of the Trump tax cuts for high earners and raising the capital-gains tax rate. . . . But the Biden plan is more realistic than Medicare for all, which would move 150 million people out of employer-provided plans most enrollees like, and force them into a government plan. If Biden ends up as the Democratic nominee, his health care plan could provide a big advantage over President Donald Trumpwho doesnt have a health care plan.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-health-care-plan-is-a-potent-weapon-against-trump-174042533.html
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and that's how we're gonna win this one!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)It can be adopted in the real world
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)if Biden gets dealt a good hand in the 2020 election. It requires a tax raise and that's always a battle. But M4A? Well . . .
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Peacetrain
(22,836 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,926 posts)YES! Some Sanity!
Those are desperate people to compare Biden's plan to the.. "terrorism of 9/11".
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Mahalo for the article, ucr, YES!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-health-care-plan-is-a-potent-weapon-against-trump-174042533.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden