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angrychair

(8,593 posts)
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 12:07 AM Jan 2016

Stop dishonest attacks

EVERY major industrialized nation on Earth seems to manage some form of universal healthcare. Elder care. Free and near free universities. What, they can do it but we can not? Are they more competent? Capable? Committed? Is it because we are a bunch of special flowers? So special, we currently do it in a way that puts more money in only a few pockets and continues to allow teapublican governors to restrict and dismantle the ACA in their state?

First, Bernie's plan does not dismantle the healthcare industry. Medicare hasn't dismantled it so far, has it? Medicare for all will not hurt us but help us.

While we will likely pay some sort of tax, we will no longer pay for health insurance at our jobs or through the ACA. Why is that so hard to understand?

Every major industrialized nation on Earth has slightly higher taxes than us but have better elder care, better health outcomes for less money per capita and a better university system at less cost per capita (as a tax) than we do in the U.S. now (paid out of our pocket...often a life long debt)

STOP THE LIES

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Stop dishonest attacks (Original Post) angrychair Jan 2016 OP
Yes. A million times! onecaliberal Jan 2016 #1
^ Wilms Jan 2016 #2
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