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    Default Medicare for All: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Pretty fair explanation of the good and bad with Medicare for All.


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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Pretty fair explanation of the good and bad with Medicare for All.

    There is nothing good about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    There is nothing good about it.
    Did you watch the video, bucko?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Did you watch the video, bucko?
    I have all those things that leftists are trying to sell me when pushing Medicare for All. I haven't seen anything that will benefit me more than I currently have.

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    Americans apparently enjoy being looted by healthcare companies. We get terrible care for high prices or often none at all. We are all an accident or illness short of a disaster. Our system is simply wrong.

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    Simply create a Medicare buy-in for those who want it while leaving private plans alone.

    Raise Medicare taxes .5% and SS to 1,000,000 per individual, and all of the health care issues will go away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Simply create a Medicare buy-in for those who want it while leaving private plans alone.

    Raise Medicare taxes .5% and SS to 1,000,000 per individual, and all of the health care issues will go away.
    Why aren't those contributing at say a 4x higher amount not getting 4x the distribution with SS?

    Do those that do not want to participate in the buy-in not pay that extra .5% and get back everything they've paid in so far?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Simply create a Medicare buy-in for those who want it while leaving private plans alone.

    Raise Medicare taxes .5% and SS to 1,000,000 per individual, and all of the health care issues will go away.
    I'd be good with Medicare for All who want it. The private companies would lose so much money, they'd die out on their own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Simply create a Medicare buy-in for those who want it while leaving private plans alone.

    Raise Medicare taxes .5% and SS to 1,000,000 per individual, and all of the health care issues will go away.
    The private plans are not being threatened except by Bernie's rhetoric. Private plans suck like the system does and are not guaranteed. Unions are one contract away from losing theirs.
    Bernie is not selling Medicare for all. That is the label and it is a bad one. it will not have the 20 percent kick in Medicare has now. It will not take the 100 bucks a month plus it costs to seniors now. It will include dental and optical.
    It is much better than Medicare.

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    Yep, was a good clip but I think ppl need the option plan.....

    Kinda like being on the sinking ship & those w/ life jackets hopping in the life boats not seeing a problem w/ the ship going down, afterall, those good folks was gonna die sooner or later anyways..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Yep, was a good clip but I think ppl need the option plan.....

    Kinda like being on the sinking ship & those w/ life jackets hopping in the life boats not seeing a problem w/ the ship going down, afterall, those good folks was gonna die sooner or later anyways..
    Why do they need an option if the healthcare system covers everything? Do they want to pay for a policy that covers less?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    I have all those things that leftists are trying to sell me when pushing Medicare for All. I haven't seen anything that will benefit me more than I currently have.
    The guy ^ lives in a gated village in Florida, I'm even going to bet the Villages, which means he is collecting Medicare living in a surreal world watching "Fox and Friends" every morning, he wouldn't know anything better until one of his demogogues told him it was better

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    The guy ^ lives in a gated village in Florida, I'm even going to bet the Villages, which means he is collecting Medicare living in a surreal world watching "Fox and Friends" every morning, he wouldn't know anything better until one of his demogogues told him it was better
    ^The guy claims I live somewhere yet doesn't have the guts to show up and look me in the eye.

    ^N-Lover that thought Obama was qualified due solely to skin color.

    Not old enough to collect Medicare or SS. So much for your claims, coward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I'd be good with Medicare for All who want it. The private companies would lose so much money, they'd die out on their own.
    But John explained why that isn't a great thing either as it keeps the insurance industry profitable while pushing all the major costs on the Fed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    ^N-Lover that thought Obama was qualified due solely to skin color.
    Racist.

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