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In reply to the discussion: Why we can't just admit that universal health care should be paid by taxes???? [View all]Bluedolphin1406
(8 posts)36. My premiums alone ...
... are more than your entire out of pocket costs. There is me (relatively young) with 3 young healthy children. I get to start paying my deductibles at the very top of your entire spending budget. Please do not bore me with how much worse you have it than the people who are paying for your coverage PLUS their own. As I said in another thread, people from earlier generations who are already in the system have absolutely no idea how bad it has gotten out there in the private market.
Oh yea...and once we reach our deductible, we get to start paying 10% of all procedures after that.
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Why we can't just admit that universal health care should be paid by taxes???? [View all]
garybeck
Oct 2019
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You can say it, I can say it, Warren and Sanders can say it. Question is - will people believe it,
Hoyt
Oct 2019
#8
There will always be multiple tiers of health insurance in a capitalistic society.
unitedwethrive
Oct 2019
#14
All doctors and hospitals should only be allowed to accept payment from the single payor.
roamer65
Oct 2019
#57
GOP will also hammer the first part (higher taxes) only. And that will stick for a lot of people.
NCLefty
Oct 2019
#19
Most in this country are too stupid to realize that paying part/all of a monthly premium is a tax.
roamer65
Oct 2019
#12
Your employer not paying for your healthcare could mean more salary for you. nt
Lucky Luciano
Oct 2019
#48
No, taxes don't need to go up. USA spends as much already in taxes that go towards healthcare as
Doodley
Oct 2019
#20
I'm on Medicare. I pay a PREMIUM of $155 a month to have dental vision and hearing
stopbush
Oct 2019
#23
Medical benefits are one of the things that are still good for gov't workers and teachers
tirebiter
Oct 2019
#24
I think most people that pay for health insurance now wouldn't save money with UHC.
Captain Stern
Oct 2019
#25
how to pay for it is ONE issue of a great many as the entire American Healthcare industry has
beachbumbob
Oct 2019
#27
BUT INSURANCE PREMIUMS WILL GO AWAY / replaced by a tax for National Health System.
Captain Zero
Oct 2019
#28
Medicare buy in for those that want it. Private insurance still available.
Freethinker65
Oct 2019
#30
What is stopping you from going on Medicare which has a monthly premium of $135?
stopbush
Oct 2019
#35
Yes!! People don't get that companies are going to shift more and more of the insurance cost to
PaulRevere08
Oct 2019
#37
Also several other tax funded programs would be absorbed into a universal program
IronLionZion
Oct 2019
#39
Societal Savings are not tax revenues and this plan will not work in the real world
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#42
Because the US waited so long to even talk about single payer, its now so complicated
LiberalLovinLug
Oct 2019
#46
It's simply messaging. an economist like dean baker should explain the huge upside of m4a
Kurt V.
Oct 2019
#52
That would be a political death sentence for whoever said it! Same goes for Medicare
doc03
Oct 2019
#56
"PRESIDENT REAGAN WILL RAISE TAXES, AND SO WILL I. HE WON'T TELL YOU; I JUST DID"
brooklynite
Oct 2019
#58
It's a halfwitted "gotcha" question, setup by the media, to be exploited by the GOP. Fuck em both
Tarc
Oct 2019
#60