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Thas is the problem I have with single payer. We got leeches that would never give their two cents into the pot.
I tell you what, why don't we extend Medicare to cover the entire nation?
My wife and I are over 65 and we both have medicare which is absolutely marvelous and I think we should extend it to everyone equally, right?
For those who think Medicare is free you're in for a real shocker.
A newly wed couple both 25 years old should have exactly what we have.
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$104.90 $104.90 = $209.80 Part B
$165,00 $165.00 = $330.00 Supplement
$ 28.00 $ 28.00 = $56.00 Pharmacy
$ 60.00 $ 60.00 = Dental (this would be voluntary
$357.90 $715.80 = Total Monthly Premium Payment for young couple
Of course you could whittle that down considerably to $595.80 if you do without dental but if you get a toothache it's all on you!
That is what my wife and I pay for our free Medicare every month. On top of this we continue to have Medicare Tax to pay for the system but and why not since I've been paying Medicare tax for near 50 years?
We could have the best system in the world but I would only like this if EVERYONE paid just like I am forced to pay you can as well. It's called your fair share and you should pay your fair share.
When I do collect social security my wife and I still have to come up with the $715.80 so why shouldn't you? Are you special or something? Think because your an artist you should get a freebee or something?
No problem I say lets go with this system By the way you could go without the supplemental coverage if you were poor.
During a rally on Capitol Hill celebrating Medicare's 50th anniversary, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders highlighted his support for a single-payer health-care system, a position that separates him from his rivals for the Democratic nomination.
I like his response to pundits who say it has no chance of ever passing: “All of the pundits always tell us what we cannot accomplish until the day after we accomplish it.”
Sanders continues to hit the issues that affect and concern middle class Americans the most.
Yepperz, when government run programs waste money, fail to serve the people, and are about to go bankrupt, the answer from liberal dems is always the same, LET'S EXPAND GOVERNMENT EVEN MORE!!!!
We're talking about tax revenue per person. The US spend more tax payer money on health care than countries with single payer universal health care.
that is because the only ones who give a flying **** about controlling our irresponsible and wasteful government are Conservatives. The partisan Republicans and Democrat squeal like stuck pigs if anyone dares talk about a responsible government, and bring an end to their gravy train. That is why they hate the TEA party, they want to rein in out of control spending and the crony corporatism in Washington.
I thought for a time that the Occupy Wall Street movement might join the TEA party movement in trying to end crony capitalism in our government, but they are just fine with it as long as a Democrat is doing it.
So we have debt, on top of debt, and idiots running for president proposing new and inventive ways to go even deeper into debt. And the useful idiots going right along with the corruption in Washington, because it's their political party looting the US Treasury.
This gets old. The V.A. is not doing so poorly because it's underfunded. It's doing poorly because it's poorly run and no one is ever held accountable for that.
The VA might be poorly run, but the postal service, our highway system, Medicare, and Amtrak(when we consider their shoe string budget of less than 2 billion) are well run. I don't think the government is good at everything.
The VA might be poorly run, but the postal service, our highway system, Medicare, and Amtrak(when we consider their shoe string budget of less than 2 billion) are well run. I don't think the government is good at everything.
Yepperz, when government run programs waste money, fail to serve the people, and are about to go bankrupt, the answer from liberal dems is always the same, LET'S EXPAND GOVERNMENT EVEN MORE!!!!
But Medicare is not as wasteful as private insurance companies and serves more people. It is an example of a successful federal program.
The pharmaceutical corporations put out messages to scare the public and get them to fight for more drug corporation profits. And these republicans repeat their corporate propaganda phrases like trained parrots.
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