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In reply to the discussion: Which do you Favor and Why: Medicare for All or ACA expansion? [View all]kennetha
(3,666 posts)14. Universal Coverage is the end
Single payer vs ACA are different means to that end with very different structures and very different costs and benefits.
I think you mistakenly think Universal Coverage = Single Payer
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I favor which ever one is most popular and will win us the election. Then get to work on the best
dem4decades
Sep 2019
#1
How will you pay for it-societal savings are not tax revenues and cannot be used to pay for MFA
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#53
It is so easy to knock something with made up assumptions when what you support isn't even defined.
wasupaloopa
Sep 2019
#9
This whole debate is about adding a public option. With that all your points are null and void
wasupaloopa
Sep 2019
#51
This is rediculous. Desease prevention starts and ends with the individual. You can't force
wasupaloopa
Sep 2019
#10
Medicare For All because it is immoral to make profits from denying people healthcare.
Nanjeanne
Sep 2019
#27
Warren and Sanders say Americans don't like their health insurance. Polls don't back that up.
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#30
Speaker Pelosi-There's no need to reinvent health care -- just improve Obamacare
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#43
NBC/WSJ poll shows Biden's healthcare stance (optional Medicare buy-in) much more popular
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#58
The ACA...MFA will never happen and why would we start over? Americans like the ACA and would
Demsrule86
Sep 2019
#59
Voters will not tolerate an additional 10 or 15% paycheck deduction to fund M4A
madville
Sep 2019
#60
I'd like to go to Medicare for all; I don't think you can sell it in this election.
brooklynite
Sep 2019
#61
She now has. She claims it will put 11 trillion dollars of savings in the pocket of the middle class
andym
Nov 2019
#87
I'm tired, and I could (really) write a short book on this, so I'll keep it short
Algernon Moncrieff
Sep 2019
#65
Improve BOTH Medicare and Obamacare and begin phasing out the patchwork...
TreasonousBastard
Sep 2019
#67
73% of people favor [the] public option that would keep private insurance in place
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#69
Support for a public option has been increasing, and for Medicare-for-All has been decreasing
Gothmog
Oct 2019
#70
If those projection are anywhere close, MFA ain't gonna happen without big changes. That's unlikely.
Hoyt
Oct 2019
#77
That's depressing. But why Vermont, Colorado and Cal abandoned consideration of single-payer quickly
Hoyt
Oct 2019
#78
Yep. I figured the legislators in all those states just didn't have the guts to tell voters what it
Hoyt
Oct 2019
#81
ACA expansion. Because it is feasible in any congress makeup we could imagine in 2021
scheming daemons
Nov 2019
#88