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ReallyIAmAnOptimist

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February 19, 2016

We'd save $5253 per year with Bernie's Single Payer plan... calculate for yourself...

We'd save $5253.60.
That's serious money.
Furthermore employers save too, similar amount, over $5K
(in the case of an employee+spouse+2 kids, which is our situation)

Here are two calculators to find your family's savings:

http://www.bernietax.com/#0;0

http://valadian.github.io/SandersHealthcareCalculator/

Single payer saves everybody money:
-Individuals
-Families
-Employers
-Government (costs would drop from 17% to ~12% of GDP) WOW!!!


Single payer is the patriotic thing to do!

Or we keep 320 Million people under the parasitic foot of the so-called 'health insurance' industry...

(reposted from GD by request)

February 19, 2016

We'd save $5253 per year with Bernie's Single Payer plan... calculate for yourself...

We'd save $5253.60.
That's serious money.
Furthermore employers save too, similar amount, over $5K
(in the case of an employee+spouse+2 kids, which is our situation)

Here are two calculators to find your family's savings:

http://www.bernietax.com/#0;0

http://valadian.github.io/SandersHealthcareCalculator/

Single payer saves everybody money:
-Individuals
-Families
-Employers
-Government (costs would drop from 17% to ~12% of GDP) WOW!!!


Single payer is the patriotic thing to do!

Or we keep 320 Million people under the parasitic foot of the so-called 'health insurance' industry...



February 19, 2016

We'd save $5253 per year with Bernie's Single Payer plan... calculate for yourself...

We'd save $5253.60.
That's serious money.
Furthermore employers save too, similar amount, over $5K
(in the case of an employee+spouse+2 kids, which is our situation)

Here are two calculators to find your families savings:

http://www.bernietax.com/#0;0

http://valadian.github.io/SandersHealthcareCalculator/

Single payer saves everybody money:
-Individuals
-Families
-Employers
-Government (costs would drop from 17% to ~12% of GDP) WOW!!!


Single payer is the patriotic thing to do!

Or we keep 320 Million people under the parasitic foot of the so-called 'health insurance' industry...



February 19, 2016

Media Attacking Single-Payer Are Getting Paid Under Current Health System

Seth Ackerman over at Jacobin wrote a good breakdown Monday of these attacks, detailing why the gatekeeper left media’s handwringing over Sanders’ single-payer proposal is disingenuous ideology-policing rather than an objective analysis based on the actual policy merits of the plan. The arguments being made by critics—specifically Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias at Vox, and by the Washington Post—basically boil down to two objections: Sanders’ single-payer proposal is not “realistic” and too “vague.”

As well as debunking these two central claims, Ackerman notes the political convenience of pundits suddenly bashing single-payer who used to note its advantages. It’s smart and well worth a read as a policy primer, but there’s something lingering behind the anti-single payer arguments that goes beyond mere “base management” and pro-establishment bias.

Almost all of the outlets Ackerman references as pushing back on single payer are owned by large media corporations with sizable investments in private healthcare and its current neoliberal iteration, the Affordable Care Act. They have not just a political and ideological incentive to maintain private healthcare, but a tremendous financial one as well.


more: http://fair.org/home/media-attacking-single-payer-are-getting-paid-under-current-system/

January 19, 2016

Sharing my Medicare-for-All Bernie (Facebook) banner...

I did this with Microsoft Digital Image Pro.
It's a PNG file, so can be edited.
Feel free to use, edit, share!

http://imgur.com/fbGy7UE

October 14, 2015

Bernie cofounded the Progressive Caucus...

...In the House about 30 years ago. The platform of the progressive caucus aligns with Bernie's objectives today, and the caucus includes 70 of the 188 Democrats currently in Congress. Bernie's first two endorsements are from the Progrssive Caucus. More will follow. So with 36-percent of current sitting Dems the groundwork is already well In place for a Progressive revolution.

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About ReallyIAmAnOptimist

In 2007 (excited about Obama) I got involved in my LD as a PCO and in 2008 did a stint on the board as an alternate rep to King County Dems. My key issue was healthcare reform (watching that sausage-making was a painful experience). Right now I see the key issue being getting money out of politics. I\\\'m excited and thankful for the power of social media to affect change in 2016 (while we still have an open internet). I\\\'m 56, married, with two step-children (in college). I\'m trained as a dietitian/nutritionist and I specialize in weight management (as a continuing ed provider and author). I would call myself a Democratic Socialist (while I of course pretty much vote Dem. IMO we don\\\'t actually have a liberal party in the USA, just two conservative ones). I was against the Iraq war (and was shocked at how easily W drew us into it). Needless to say, I\\\'m all in for Bernie!
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