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Local news (Minnesota) explanation of government rate setting
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/high-cost-warren-and-sanderss-single-payer-plan/600166/
I would expect the other candidates (less Bernie) to pressure Warren more on how she plans on funding Medicare for all. Trump certainly will if she gets the nomination.
71, you were in the biz for decades. Here's a question for you, if companies can save 10-20% on healthcare costs and get more for their money by purchasing a Medicare based coverage would they choose that over private insurance products?
why would a politician suddenly find the need to explain how an expenditure will be funded? and on what basis would Trump be logically able to criticize an increase in deficit spending?
Medicare benefits are usually ranked as the top insurance coverage in the country by the customers.
By taking millions of people away from private companies, prices would dramatically increase for those left behind.
Supporters of Medicare for All are right. Funding universal health insurance through taxes would lead to a large tax cut for the vast majority of workers. It would abolish the huge poll tax they currently shoulder, and the data show that for most workers, it would lead to the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation.
That’s a disingenuous article. It misstates the problem by ignoring what we already spend on health care and then pitches a ridiculous solution. It also ignores that the ridiculous solution is actually the reality for many Americans facing medical debt. More dumbassery from the people who gave us the death panels hysteria.
Warren needs to do a better job of explaining that its not about funding, its about cost. Who cares if you're paying for healthcare through taxes or out of your pocket. We spend 3.5 trillion a year on healthcare, and that number is only going up. So $34 trillion over 10 years is actually a savings.
ehhhhhh there's no way anyone but a select few is ever going to equate out of pocket costs with paid through taxes costs. I mean I just found out today we pay $150 billion a year in foreign aid to the fucking Ukraine. Bury it in taxes and no one will notice.