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    Default Start calling health insurance what it is; private taxes

    Health insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, coinsurance, ambulance rides, hospital stays, dental, vision, and drug costs are all private taxes. What you're paying goes to fund a profitable insurance company that takes in as much of your money as it can, and pays out as little as it can get away with, keeping the remainder for itself. Furthermore, those insurance companies conspire with your doctor to set artificially high prices that mutually benefit the doctor and insurance company's business interests.

    Currently, the average worker pays $7,100 in private taxes for their health care restricted within their provider network.

    Under M4A, that same private worker would get universal access to health care for $2,440 (4% of their income).

    The household median income in this country is $61,000. In the current system, the average worker pays $7,100, or 12% of their income. Bernie's M4A plan sets a rate of 4% of your income.

    So is 4% > or < 12%?
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    The Health Insurance Industry is a Money-Machine for Investors. Why do you hate Shareholders that just want greater profits squeezed from sick people?




    Quote Originally Posted by LV426 View Post
    Health insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, coinsurance, ambulance rides, hospital stays, dental, vision, and drug costs are all private taxes. What you're paying goes to fund a profitable insurance company that takes in as much of your money as it can, and pays out as little as it can get away with, keeping the remainder for itself. Furthermore, those insurance companies conspire with your doctor to set artificially high prices that mutually benefit the doctor and insurance company's business interests.

    Currently, the average worker pays $7,100 in private taxes for their health care restricted within their provider network.

    Under M4A, that same private worker would get universal access to health care for $2,440 (4% of their income).

    The household median income in this country is $61,000. In the current system, the average worker pays $7,100, or 12% of their income. Bernie's M4A plan sets a rate of 4% of your income.

    So is 4% > or < 12%?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    The Health Insurance Industry is a Money-Machine for Investors. Why do you hate Shareholders that just want greater profits squeezed from sick people?
    I guess it's because I'm a gigantic asshole.
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    lol
    Well, ... that or ...
    ... Investors that are Parasites living off the unfortunate Sick People.

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