Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Kamala Harris needs to get her sh!t together on Healthcare, otherwise it will badly damage her. [View all]emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)been listening to people when he tried to pin her down on some issues.
She did say she would allow, not ban, private insurance, but take the employer out of the transaction.
What this would mean I think is that an individual would be free to pay for her own insurance. If so, that is a huge drawback to Harriss plan. Not only do many employers offer a group plan, which lowers the premium and ups the coverage, but these plans can carry over in retirement, at which point they supplement Medicare to provide 100 percent coverage.
I think all candidates need to pay attention to those retirees whose retirement benefits provide them low cost or no cost supplemental plans. Half of seniors carry these in addition to Medicare, though not all are equally affordable. Still, I do not see candidates addressing themselves to older voters, a demographic that votes reliably and in some numbers.
In any case, Harris needs to listen to people and make up her mind. And whatever the political cost, Warren needs to be honest about increased taxes for M4A. All single payer systems in other countries are funded with taxes, income taxes, tax on gas, sales tax. Regardless, people pay.
Even in France, which has taxed the wealthiest at up to 90 percent, regular folk pay. This cost, through gas tax, is what the yellow jackets were protesting. Of course they believe it is mass immigration that has driven up costs.
The tax burden has become a talking point for the likes of Marine Le Pen, a Trump favorite. And she has gained a foothold now politically that might catapult her into the presidency.
Please progressives. Be careful in modeling other countries and their social democracies.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden