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I don't think that plan is detailed enough to make a full assessment, but Bernie Sanders wrote the Affordable Care Act and that thing is a mess. It was a move in the wrong direction. I'm not optimistic given what has been presented.
I don't think that plan is detailed enough to make a full assessment, but Bernie Sanders wrote the Affordable Care Act and that thing is a mess. It was a move in the wrong direction. I'm not optimistic given what has been presented.
Bernie is the ONLY one up there I believe and trust. He's honest, been singing the same song for 40 years, and calls Clinton out on taking the money from everyone. I'm over Wall Street, big banks, lobbyists, etc. If this make me a democratic socialist, so be it, titles mean nothing to me. Maybe I'll finally get something for the 40K I pay in taxes.
And there you have it.
I think many/most people are willing to pay more taxes, *as long as they receive a tangible benefit*. We're all paying for our own and other people's health care anyway, the question is whether we get a better deal by paying for it with taxes or by paying premiums to private companies. Most developed nations have found that taxes is the better route.
Note - if you think that you pay for only your own health care when you pay premiums to an insurance company - you don't understand insurance.
Good. I always chuckle when the "America is #1, America can do anything!" crowd suddenly turn around and deny that a legitimate universal healthcare system is conceivable.
Sure, it's conceivable. But it would require implementing a 25% VAT tax, and applying the highest marginal income tax rate to the middle class like the countries with national healthcare do.
Do you think Americans are willing to pay all that extra in taxes for national health care?
Sure, it's conceivable. But it would require implementing a 25% VAT tax, and applying the highest marginal income tax rate to the middle class like the countries with national healthcare do.
Do you think Americans are willing to pay all that extra in taxes for national health care?
Why is it that we have to pay for it when we aren't paying for the wars?
Why is it that we have to pay for it when we aren't paying for the wars?
Aren't you the one who insists printing money out of nothing (increasing accrual of national debt, the $2 Trillion bailout of Fannie and Freddie, etc.) is a defacto tax?
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