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Will the self employed be required to pay the 6.2% plus the 2.2%? What about children and the unemployed? How will they help to fund it?
Everyone must have skin in the game for any government idea to fully work as intended.
Government must rob everyone equally, or government is not treating people equally.
Because it doesnt cover everything. But the vast majority of Americans support it, because they know the alternative is terrible. Remember when there was no Medicare? That sweet air of freedom is not great when you are dying at age 67 because of cancer and you dont have the money to pay for treatment. Insurance companies are designed to make a profit, and they dont make profits on very high risk elderly people. Millions will die if you get rid of Medicare.
The insurance I had before the monstrous lie did cover everything cheaply.
You can have your socialized garbage as long as I can opt out.............what the hell, I opted of Ostupidcare, I will opt out of that garbage socialized crap that few doctors accept.
The dems who approved obamacare need to pay a price for relinquishing their responsibility as representatives of the people.
obama told us in 2008, if HRc was elected, she would pass healthcare by nuclear option...something he would never condone.
Just like BLM, obamacare built on a foundation of lies comes tumbling down... happens evry time but the dems not only failed to read and understand obamacare, they failed to read and understand history
2.2% payroll tax for workers and employer based health insurance replaced with a 6.2% payroll tax on employers. Massively benefiting the 99% just like Medicare currently is doing, as Medicare is a much cheaper health care program to run than the current privatized for-profit system.
6.2%? I think you mean 17%. Vermont tried to implement universal health care and for just that state they were going to raise payroll taxes by 12% as well as an income tax hike. That program ultimately failed in Vermont because there was no way to implement it without causing a financial shock.
Now, Sanders did float the idea of a 6.2%/2.2% payroll tax hike and an income tax hike, but his program still would not brought in enough revenue to pay for what we currently spend.
Done right less than I pay for health care now. The problem is people will point out that the government does very little right. I can not present a valid rebuttal to that argument.
The reason we do not have UHC isn't because of those against it. It's because of those who are for it simply refuse to hold the government reaponsible for anything.
Why wasn't intense pressure put on Obama to fire those running the V.A.?
Things like this are very important but until we demand accountability you can forget it.
Because it doesnt cover everything. But the vast majority of Americans support it, because they know the alternative is terrible. Remember when there was no Medicare? That sweet air of freedom is not great when you are dying at age 67 because of cancer and you dont have the money to pay for treatment. Insurance companies are designed to make a profit, and they dont make profits on very high risk elderly people. Millions will die if you get rid of Medicare.
" But the vast majority of Americans support it,"
I don't believe this for moment.
MOST are FORCED to join it or have NOTHING after their companies dropped them when they turned 65.
They would MUCH rather have stayed on the companies plans.
Some Americans support it and they're the ones who were barely impacted. It doesn't affect them - so it works. They don't care about millions of other people.
As for all Americans having healthcare, which was the message we kept hearing, there are still a lot of people who simply cannot afford the rising premiums, the high deductibles, and then the maximum out of pocket requirement, before the insurance companies start paying for some serious health issues they may have.
For many people, it's cheaper to pay the penalty than to pay for the cheapest of plans, where you're basically self-insured anyway.
Read this article about how one county is dealing with this.
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A Medicare-for-all system is the way to go. Just expand it with a payroll tax as advocated by Bernie Sanders, the great one.
At least create it on a sliding scale. By doing this, this would remove perceived high risk people (age) from the pool dedicated for shareholder owned for-profit health Insurance companies. However, that would never happen because the "new high risk people would be in the 30 year range.
He is also trying to bail them out with our tax dollars. basically trying to bribe them into staying.
He really is an imbecile.
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