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14. Enhanced subsidies come

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #9)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 08:39 PM

Sep 2017

....from taxes. So how have we avoided raised taxes?

The paper work alone makes private insurance cost more. Why can't we have what every other industrialized country has? I just don't get it.

Why do we have to be the only health care system that inserts a profit making entity in the middle? Why is there health care for profit at all? Another way to say this---why is sickness being monetized?

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Bernie Sanders Medicare for All Plan Is Popular For Now [View all] riversedge Sep 2017 OP

Go ahead, raise my taxes IronLionZion Sep 2017 #1

Improve the ACA murielm99 Sep 2017 #2

Improve the ACA honey bucket Sep 2017 #3

+1 JustAnotherGen Sep 2017 #6

Yet Trump was elected president with even less specificity Ligyron Sep 2017 #10

Looks like it's still just a hashtag and bumper sticker slogan. The details are important... NurseJackie Sep 2017 #8

ROFL. murielm99 Sep 2017 #13

If they work out the numbers and it saves people money would you support it? harun Sep 2017 #12

I consider it divisive. murielm99 Sep 2017 #15

It is all about politics but I think you can have both. Without the threat of Single Payer harun Sep 2017 #17

If it's got anything to do with Bernie it has to be bad Lazy Daisy Sep 2017 #4

The tax cost zentrum Sep 2017 #5

Has this statement been proven? beaglelover Sep 2017 #7

Unfortunately, No, if for no other reasons than Sanders' plan provides dental, vision, does away Hoyt Sep 2017 #9

No one would be "uninsured" LiberalLovinLug Sep 2017 #11

Enhanced subsidies come zentrum Sep 2017 #14

Good questions. CanSocDem Sep 2017 #16

It really may be zentrum Sep 2017 #18

Well, we obviously shouldn't do this if QC Sep 2017 #19