2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Kick if you are ready for 100% increase in tax revenues. [View all]PatrickforO
(14,645 posts)You say Bernie will need to double federal revenue just to pay for single payer healthcare, however you OMIT completely the huge offsetting cost savings that would be realized in such a system. So, here's a nice link that talks about these huge cost savings as well as increased taxes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511071488
So...think for a moment, I implore you, about what would be best for the people. Please. Because the current system is best for insurance companies and Wall Street. Certainly not for us. Right now, I have a very good job, and between my employer and me we spend a whopping 18.5% of my gross on shitty, rationed health insurance from an HMO whose primary operational value is cutting costs. Why, kennetha, is that even acceptable? Because the healthcare lobby is powerful? Fuck them. I'm sick of watching my SO suffer with chronic pain because we can't afford the giant deductible for surgery.
There's NOTHING that can justify anything but a single payer system in a country as advanced as ours, and only one barrier: greed.
Fuck greed. I want single payer NOW, and I'll damned right hit the streets to make it happen.
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