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Showing Original Post only (View all)Medicare for all is so much cheaper and simpler than subsidizing insurance companies [View all]
That the GOP could give their wealthy lords their tax break AND provide healthcare for everyone.
And increase freedom, happiness, and joy all over this country.
and they won't do it, of course.
But to be fair, neither did the Democrats.
The obvious answer is staring us in the face, and we can't, as a country, do it.
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Medicare for all is so much cheaper and simpler than subsidizing insurance companies [View all]
ProfessorPlum
Mar 2017
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But if we did do that then how would the CEO's be able to get their obscene pay packages?
dhol82
Mar 2017
#1
But But But......That's........SO-SHUL-ISMMMMMM!!! (Cue Ominous Music: DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!!!)
ChoppinBroccoli
Mar 2017
#2
The Demand For Treatment Doesn't Go Away; The Mechanism For Payment Just Changes
ChoppinBroccoli
Mar 2017
#4
well, actually a lot of single payers' costs go way down precisely because
ProfessorPlum
Mar 2017
#25
And that is the thinking that makes it impossible to EVER generate the political will.
pat_k
Mar 2017
#14
They should be out there saving the ACA...trying to do anything else plays into
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#21
We can't replace it...we must support it and improve it if given the chance...but that
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
#44
Are economy is so strong we actually can afford the waste of subsidizing insurance for everyone
Johonny
Mar 2017
#16