Reply #33: There's an extremely significant difference between Kucinich's and Dean's

[Mairead]

It's about $265G per year, currently: the difference between non-profit and for-profit. A quarter-trillion dollars. That's quite a lot.

Dean wants to take an additional 88G per year out of our pockets to cover about 30M of the 41M without coverage. But his plan still leaves 10M or so out in the cold. He characterises that as people opting out. But he doesn't explain who would do this opting out, or why. My sense is that, if 'opt out' is the appropriate term at all, then the only people who could do that are the wealthy, because only they have the kind of money it would take. And as we know from other common social services such as education, once the wealthy can opt out, they'll try to starve out the services the proles have to use.