ReallyIAmAnOptimist
ReallyIAmAnOptimist's JournalWe'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)
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...
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...
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 medias 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 criticsspecifically Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias at Vox, and by the Washington Postbasically 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. Its smart and well worth a read as a policy primer, but theres 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/
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Bernie has broken through 30% in the HuffPost Pollster national polling composite chart
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-democratic-primaryBack in the 2007/8 cycle, Obama didn't break through 30% until just before the first (Feb 08) primaries:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
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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