Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Medicare for All is a fatal loser in the general election [View all]ancianita
(36,055 posts)that $5 TRILLIION in big fossil yearly subsidies goes in to help pay M4A, the turnaround costs won't be on the recipients. That's every single year of no fossil subsidies paying into M4A.
The other somewhere will be through a small increase in payroll taxes. Right now I pay $2400 a year for Plan F supplement that frees me from ALL costs. I get guaranteed coverage anywhere I happen to be, with any doctor or hospital I have to turn to. That right there is cheaper and better coverage than almost any insurance premium prices that employee based private insurers charge, and which put limitations on health care only by region, or network, or "covered" diseases, or ridiculous "deductible" amounts they must spend.
The 80%, with a whole country paying in waay lower tax increase than their current premiums, will lower the M4A supplement costs. I'm not a gov accountant, but I can easily see the savings for everyone who now carries either employee based or any other kind of middleman insurance premiums.Not to mention the portability of their health care, AND the guaranteed coverage, cradle to grave.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden