I don't know about other states, but I live in Vermont, and the DMV there is aces. Go in, there's a person there that directs you to right line, take a number, sit down, 15-20 minutes later max you leave with what you wanted.

If health care worked like that, I'd be very happy. Other than that, I agree with the crux of the article. The Republicans are gift wrapping the issue and Bernie will blow it.

....hindering it) just fine.

Why throw out systems that are working (current Medicare, the ACA, and insurance) and start from scratch?

When appropriate I remind people that it actually works very well, most of the time. Sometimes one has to pay attention to the rules though.

....and needed an immediate replacement in order sell my car.

The ACA had some benefits for some (not all) Americans at a huge cost. It is truly working for the Insurance Companies. For actual people it works with varying degrees of benefit ranging from good to not at all. Basically it shifts people without work supplied insurance (with its own co pays and problems) to insurance that may or may not be actually usable by the people forced to buy it. All this while siphoning off a huge part of the American Economy directly to the Insurance Companies rather than patients.

enlarges. The ACA isn't working well.The GOP has cut it till it's bleeding with no stopping.

Plus, it only has 44 million enrollees. There are 330 million Americans, meaning it would have to be expanded by more than 700%.

It's simply not workable as presented.

The ACA is working fine in states that have accepted it.

And no, due to what the republicans have done to it it is not working fine in all states that have accepted it Healthcare premiums are rising. And it certainly isn't working in the 14 states that didn't expanded their Medicaid programs.

https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2019/07/26/12-ways-the-gop-sabotaged-obamacare/


https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/republicans-killed-much-of-obamacare-without-repealing-it/

"The ACA is working fine in states that have accepted it."

I have had experiences in 3 DMV's in Ohio, and all were fast and swift.

I am almost 67.

I have never had a piece of mail lost.

The Post Office has a pretty good track record.

The median family of 4 ( with an income of 60,000 dollar a year) pay 20% of their income on healthcare premiums …. If you contract cancer , there is 50% chance your life savings will evaporate to nothing ….

That's just empirically false.

Seriously, what is the difference between The Bulwark and FR or NRO or The Federalist?

Or the enemy’s mindset from which they will wage their attacks.

Sometimes it can help us prepare to take them on.

The OP is nothing more than a right wing smear of Sanders masked as an expose on opposition research.

If Bernie is the nominee, expect the word "communist" in Trump's tweets about 50 times a day. Of course that wont affect those of us here, but don't underestimate how much it will do to turn out and sway independents and Trumps base.

was that if government was the problem, why did Reagan want to be the head of it? I love to ask Reagan worshippers that.

YES that’s a legitimate question.

“Because I just wanna blow it all up...”

Okay. So when you blow it all up, are YOU the one who will be trying to live in the wreckage? Or will you then plead poverty and say we can’t afford to fix it but we do have to cut taxes?

Want to be overcharged for healthcare and medication? I don’t think so....

how we pay for healthcare.

Im for cutting the defense budget and fixing their corrupt accounting.

But as you say 35 trillion is more than the economy. It is almost 50 times the size of the defense budget. Even with 10 year numbers defense is 7-8 trillion.

In other words I have no idea how there can be 35 trillion of accounting errors. It must mean something but it isn’t a 35 trillion dollar pool of cash.

We can’t use that 35 trillion to pay for anything unless it is savings rather than accounting mumbo jumbo.

They get more and more every year, so does the military. They are given more than they ask for. They can tighten their belt and account for their funding. Just like the state. If they don't use it in a year they lose it.

Defense gets 700 billion a year. 7 trillion in 10 years.

I have no idea what they mean by 35 trillion of accounting errors, but it can’t mean there is 35 trillion in savings. You can’t save more than what is being spent.

Cutting the defense budget to pay for healthcare reform is a logical argument.

Taking an accounting fraud number that is 5 times bigger than the 10 year budget and trying to call that a funding source makes no sense.

budget are too fucking big. We can afford them but we can't afford healthcare. I think that's what makes no sense instead of you can’t save more than what is being spent. You know they don't save anything.
The problem is that they spend enough to have to adjust by a number of dollars bigger than the entire US economy. We will never know, there is no accountability.

Fine. That was my point.

I already said in each reply what most people here say. Cut the defense budget. Use the savings for healthcare. If we cut by half that’s 3.5 trillion over 10 years. That’s a large chunk of money but not enough. That’s why everyone’s plans have other funding sources, usually by raising other taxes.

And I agree that’s what we should do. I’ll go further and say we have to cut healthcare costs by half. That is there are huge savings to be had if we got our costs in line with other countries.

My reaction was only to the implication that there was 35 trillion to be saved from the accounting scandal.

for the pentagon and the military to get more money the politicians will give them whatever they want and more without giving a shit about numbers. Then they will scream we can't afford healthcare.

Lincoln knew it & spoke about it, so did Eisenhower.

Is very narrow minded and short sighted. The arguments raised would surely ooze from the mouth of Jaba-The-Smut, but would be easily countered by the Sanders campaign as fear mongering, absent of fact, and purely designed to scare people away from that from which they would all benefit mightily. Using examples like Denmark, Sweden, Canada, and Great Britain, the oozer of lies, would be exposed to everyone as the Fascist fear spreader, that he is. Hell, even just using the example of Medicare right here in our own country, Bernie would mop the floor with him on that topic alone.

This country is becoming too socially conservative, and the original post proves that point without any shadow of a doubt. America should be the most socially liberal country on earth. Our very own Constitution is the guidebook for a liberal society. But I see more and more people who profess to be liberals, relying on the big book of lies to form their social agendas. As a country, we MUST put that pile of garbage back into it's proper place in society, on the shelf with all of the other children's books filled with Fables and Fairy Tales. We should be fighting to make children in school, learn all about the United States Constitution, instead of having to fight to keep BS out of the minds of impressionable children.

is a difficult sell in most Congresses. Sanders' ability to schmooze and jawbone may be fine, but there is no substitute for party discipline, horsetrading, favors. It was said President Carter had little pull on Capitol Hill. IMO Sanders would have difficulty leading for lack of cooperation.

isn't known for horsetrading, favors. They will not work with ANY president that isn't a Puke. Take that to tha bank. Someone has to say I'm doing it on day one.

all of that pandering to right wing zealots work for Barack Obama? And I suppose that having a republican like Uncle Joe, cutting every social safety net that he can find, would be a better result.

We have had all of the wall street-hugging politicians that we can stand. We are in dire need of politicians that will stand up to wall street, big pharma, and oil and gas.

He's going scorched earth over something that'll never pass the Senate.

3 Democratic Senators have publicly said no. He has no path to get the votes.

Why would we listen to anything a Republican has to say about who is the best Dem candidate?

hammered on that every day.

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