levy a minor tax on everybody, very minor, and it works.

Or could work, problem is

A. not gonna happen for a very long time due to teaparty and GOP who hate working people

B. have to simultaneously do many other things...end for profit hospitals, limit profits on RX, get more docs, etc.

So that would have to be paid by each person. I don't know how they would do the children.

Then the working would still have to kick in from they pay check also like now. My prescription insurance runs me $46 a month.

My supplement to the Medicare hospital insurance runs me $167 a month. With the $167 added on, I have never had a copay from any doctor, so it is nice.

Naturally if medicare negoiated the prices for meds, they would drop pretty good. Let some other country pay full price for them.

I still do not understand why every clinic I go to has Cat scanners and all those big ticket items. They used to be at the hospital.

it will be a reduction in health care costs.

But thanks for rehashing that meme - I love six times warmed up plates.

trade off. A small tax in exchange for Universal Health. Co-pays are killing people along with drug prices.

And eliminate the notion of medical bankruptcy - an unknown concept in civilized countries.

You know, everything Hillary isn't.

I know of some professional fucking liars we can talk about.

These always go well.

Yes payroll taxes might increase, but your insurance payment will decrease by a whole lot more. Thousands a year and you get no deductibles, no copays or any of that nonsense that can also cost thousands a year. You guys are really bad at math and honesty.

are "working class".

Between my wife and I, we pay about $15,000 a year in insurance premiums and copays. That's a whole lot more than the 8.9% Bernie is talking about (we own our business, so we pay the full cost of insurance).

So, I welcome his plan.

to be litterally laughable. many yuks yesterday or day before on the thread about Bernie's surge in the polls being due to the "data theft" - hilarity ensued!

Expect to see more of this as their desperation increases.

I believe this new batch of nastiness is not going to help them one bit.

$2 trillion Iraq war she voted for.

folks who make less than $250,000. Sanders has not and his campaign manager has said he may not put out the cost of his health care plan before the Iowas caucuses. that is not fair to the voters.

But for some reason, we never need to worry about war, that just goes on the credit card.

Enjoy your visit.

Welcome back!

So... yeah.

And Hillary has repeatedly criticized him for it, pledging no new taxes on the middle class. He has argued that a broad-based tax will make the program more stable. Therefore, I would say your assertion that he hasn't admitted this basic fact is incorrect

All those programs are paid for equally by everyone which is why they have the political support that they do. You cannot just tax the wealthy without incurring a political backlash.

That's going to be a tough sell, but, yeah: that's how Europe pays for the stuff they get.

One Medicare supplemental plan and two private policies off the ACA healthcare exchange. Instead, we'll be paying a fraction of that.
Tuition Free University is covered by taxing Wall St. Thieves' Speculation transactions.
Infrastructure repair is paid by closing Corporate Tax Loopholes. Do you have any idea how much money this country loses every year by Corporations hiding their mega billions overseas without paying any taxes on it? BILLIONS.

If every other major country in this world (including some small, poor countries- Costa Rica & Ecuador) can give their citizens Universal Healthcare, SO CAN THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Sheesh.

Stop falling for their bullshit! If we can spend billions per year on wars and the MIC, our citizens can have money spent on Medicare for all! We deserve it and we're worth it! It's OUR country. The government employees work for US, we don't work for them.

PEACE
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Hell yeah!

The nation’s leading political fact-checker has debunked Hillary Clinton’s recent attacks on Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan.

According to Politifact’s recent analysis of Bernie Sanders’ proposal to expand Medicare to all Americans under his “Medicare for All” single-payer healthcare system, Sanders’ plan would save the average household between $505 and $1,823 per year — just shy of a $1,200 average cost savings. While this figure is lower than the Sanders campaign’s estimate of $3,855 to $5,173 in savings, it still means American families will pay less under single-payer healthcare than they currently do under the Affordable Care Act.

Sanders’ plan is modeled after single-payer legislation he introduced in 2013, which outlines how the plan would be implemented and paid for on a nationwide scale. First, Sanders would impose a 6.7 percent payroll tax on employers, along with a 2.2 percent healthcare tax on those making less than $250,000 per year. Sanders includes higher percentages for incomes above $250,000 in his legislation (the richest 2 percent of the U.S. population) and a 5.4 percent surcharge on the wealthiest Americans whose modified adjusted gross income is above $1,000,000 (literally less than 1 percent of Americans). Sanders’ bill also includes a 0.02 percent financial transactions tax on Wall Street trading.

It's going to be a net WIN for regular citizens ...

Is it the health insurance profits you are concerned about? ... I know I will shed a tear or two when they are bypassed by consumers ... Sniff sniff ... Poor fellas ...

People who have their insurance fully paid for by their employer will be worse off, as will people who only get catastrophic insurance and don't really go to the doctor much. People who have mediocre insurance will be better off.

Because it's skunk-like behavior.