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ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 07:50 AM Jul 2019

Biden'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. It’s 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.

Biden’s 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 Trump—who doesn’t 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!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Biden's health care plan is a potent weapon against Trump (Original Post) ucrdem Jul 2019 OP
I like Joe's plan Gothmog Jul 2019 #1
It will take some heavy lifting but it seems doable ucrdem Jul 2019 #3
(oops) ucrdem Jul 2019 #2
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2019 #4
This can get done!.. Peacetrain Jul 2019 #5
Joe Biden can now tell voters he wants to fix the health care system without blowing up what works. Cha Jul 2019 #6
KICK! Cha Jul 2019 #7
 

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
1. I like Joe's plan
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 09:30 AM
Jul 2019

It can be adopted in the real world

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
3. It will take some heavy lifting but it seems doable
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 09:40 AM
Jul 2019

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 . . .

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Peacetrain

(22,836 posts)
5. This can get done!..
Tue Jul 16, 2019, 11:06 AM
Jul 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Cha

(295,926 posts)
6. Joe Biden can now tell voters he wants to fix the health care system without blowing up what works.
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 04:15 AM
Jul 2019

YES! Some Sanity!

Those are desperate people to compare Biden's plan to the.. "terrorism of 9/11".





Mahalo for the article, ucr, YES!

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 Trump—who doesn’t have a health care plan.



https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bidens-health-care-plan-is-a-potent-weapon-against-trump-174042533.html
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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