Reply #78: you're right; it's been debated [View All]

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but, repugs love their tax breaks to some who have not sacrificed a damn dime to helping this country-some of actually exacerbated the problem.

first we can show how Little Boot's medicare bill ADDED TO THE DEFICIT while giving big pharma more profit. The medicare bill took away medicare's right to bargain with pharma for lower drug costs and disallowed people from buying from countries like Canada. You might say a captive consumer. Then there's the doughnut hole, where after a certain amount of money spent on drugs, seniors and the sick, had to pay from their own pocket. That's when my FIL, MIL would not buy there meds since they were too expensive, after all they were already paying over 700 dollars a month for secondary insurance (which they could ill afford).

Again, single payer health care would cut medical costs and businesses would not have to worry about covering health benefits for their employees.