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forthemiddle

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4. Help me understand

Reply to andym (Original post)

Sat Nov 2, 2019, 09:32 AM

Nov 2019

If I no longer have my company provided insurance, I will no longer have a premium to pay.
I am middle class, so if I don’t have a tax increase, we’re does my premium money go? Do I just transfer the money I now pay to United Healthcare to the government? Do you still call the money my premium?, or is it now a tax?
If it’s a mandatory payment to the government, I call it a tax, ie a middle clad tax increase.
What am I missing?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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With Detailed Pay-For Plan, Warren Touts Medicare for All as 'Bigger Than the Biggest Tax Cut' in US [View all] andym Nov 2019 OP

Elizabeth Warren Is Great Progressive2020 Nov 2019 #1

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Pay for Medicare for All With a $9 Trillion Tax That Will Hit the Middle C Gothmog Nov 2019 #2

The article you quote does not explain how the 9 trillion dollar tax hits the middle class andym Nov 2019 #3

What if my company doesn't provide my insurance now? forthemiddle Nov 2019 #5

The article is from a right-wing libertarian magazine. PETRUS Nov 2019 #7

That makes sense andym Nov 2019 #8

Help me understand forthemiddle Nov 2019 #4

Your premium money would go into your own pocket andym Nov 2019 #6