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In reply to the discussion: Getting more conservative as you get older? [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)70. But what do you think of my idea, extending medicare for all, but letting people opt-out
and choose private insurance instead if they want? I think that would be a lot easier to sell, since you wouldn't be forcing everyone, even people who like their current coverage, into a new system.
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Of course, if you look at the facts, there is no alternative but to become more liberal...
Human101948
Jun 2016
#129
More liberal, I was damn near "centrist" as a youth. Not quite but I could see
TheKentuckian
Jun 2016
#7
Yet, HR 676 (Medicare for all) had 100 co-sponsors. Not many complaints about Medicare, either.
merrily
Jun 2016
#38
But what do you think of my idea, extending medicare for all, but letting people opt-out
DanTex
Jun 2016
#70
There is to me, because I don't want it. What's wrong with letting people like me keep
DanTex
Jun 2016
#73
What is your specific problem with it? BTW, I am totally unfamiliar with any widespread reluctance
merrily
Jun 2016
#74
You're "answering" a question with a question? You're problem with Medicare is your
merrily
Jun 2016
#79
I answered your question as to why I don't want medicare. Why don't you answer mine?
DanTex
Jun 2016
#81
Not really. You did not identify one real problem with Medicare, only an assumption--and one
merrily
Jun 2016
#82
You just said you didn't know if he takes it or not. If we went single payer, his option would be to
merrily
Jun 2016
#84
If he quit that would be a problem for me. If he decided not to take insurance and just take
DanTex
Jun 2016
#92
I see Single Payer as building up rather than tearing down since it's more inclusive
suffragette
Jun 2016
#142
At 74, I believe I have opened my mind with time. I have moved from right to left, losing the.....
dmosh42
Jun 2016
#20
I think that many of us may think we have become more liberal, but the fact is that we have
world wide wally
Jun 2016
#26
Doesn't that assume that people on this thread in their sixties and seventies don't realize that?
merrily
Jun 2016
#42
My younger thinking said I was entitled to free lunches and then I realized those working
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#30
Most adults realize that, but are tired of picking up the lunch tab for plutocrats.
merrily
Jun 2016
#43
You're saying that almost everyone became liberal on that issue since Stonewall.
merrily
Jun 2016
#46
The point was that most of the populatoin became more liberal about that issue.
merrily
Jun 2016
#72
No. Definitely not. I used to be quite tolerant toward the bankers and Wall Street types
Glorfindel
Jun 2016
#45
I think the words 'conservative and progressive' are misused in todays politics.
Sunlei
Jun 2016
#94
I am not more conservative, but I see the world as more gray than black and white
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2016
#126
No, more amazed though at how repetitive the human race has shown itself to be...
AuntPatsy
Jun 2016
#130
Totally opposite! The establishment screws most people unless you are in the upper percentile...
slipslidingaway
Jun 2016
#136